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Pirate
- A Thriller (Alex Hawke, Book 3)
- Narrated by: John Shea
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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Publisher's summary
Aboard the Star of Shanghai in the south of France, an American spy is held captive. He possesses vital, explosive intelligence linking two nations and one horrifying plot. If he is not rescued, he faces certain torture and inevitable death.
Nearby, in a seaside hotel, a man still haunted by the loss of his wife two years earlier finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful Chinese actress - but is she to be trusted?
So begins Pirate, an electrifying thriller marking the return of international counterterrorist Alex Hawke.
In Paris, a ruthless descendant of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France's former glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plotting behind the gates of Beijing's Forbidden City. Cloaked in secrecy, this unholy alliance devises a twisted global plan, backed by China's growing nuclear arsenal, that will send America and the world to the brink of a gut-wrenching showdown.
With the aid of his old friend,and former Navy SEAL,Stokely Jones, Hawke sets out to investigate the deadly connections that bind the French-Chinese axis. Together, they discover that a powerful German industrialist may hold the key, somewhere inside the walls of his Bavarian mountain lair.
Meanwhile, clues to an old and gruesome murder in Paris lead to New York City, where horrifying evidence could finally bring a madman to his knees. In the end, as American and British forces prepare to defend a sovereign and oil-rich Gulf nation against unwilling occupation, the terror is all too real. The world is once more balanced on the knife-edge of a full-blown nuclear confrontation.
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Liars & Thieves
- Tommy Carmellini, Book 1
- By: Stephen Coonts
- Narrated by: Guerin Barry
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
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Fast Paced - Good Read!
- By Andrew Stone on 01-11-09
By: Stephen Coonts
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The Templar Cross
- By: Paul Christopher
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece - and Rafi's fiance - Peggy has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis - murderous fanatics who worship a dead god. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left.
By: Paul Christopher
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A False Dawn
- By: Tom Lowe
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Before the death of his wife, Sean O'Brien makes a promise to her that he has no plans to break - until he starts building a new life in an old cabin on a remote stretch of a tropical river in the heart of Florida. It's there that he discovers an injured young woman who whispers a cryptic message into his ear.
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Wonderful first novel in the Sean O'Brien series
- By Wayne on 05-07-17
By: Tom Lowe
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When Eight Bells Toll
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all-time classic. Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive. The place is the focal point of many mysterious disappearances. Even the unimaginative Highland Police Sergeant seems to be acting a part. But why?
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My Favorite Thriller Writer
- By Carl on 09-27-17
By: Alistair MacLean
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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
- A Novel
- By: Paul Malmont
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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In 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers. Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries. The unruly band is led by Robert Heinlein, the dashing and complicated master of the genre. His “Kamikaze Group,” is tasked with transforming the wonders of science fiction into science fact....
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Pulp Perfection!
- By Jim N on 08-31-12
By: Paul Malmont
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Without Warning
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high energy wave cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico. In a moment, 99 percent of the U.S. population has been wiped from the face of the earth.
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Language in book is a bit over the top.
- By John R. Dritenbas on 07-07-10
By: John Birmingham
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Island
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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This riveting and entertaining thriller by Thomas Perry follows a husband-and-wife con team on the run from the Mob, a soldier of fortune between jobs, a two-bit operator with grandiose dreams of tribal dynasty, a sultry CIA operative with divided loyalties, the most dazzling defector ever to hurl a split-fingered fastball, and 20th-century buccaneers who wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean and turn it into a multinational cash machine. But then the shooting starts.
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Not good Thomas Perry
- By Sean Cunningham on 08-26-18
By: Thomas Perry
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The Invaders Plan
- Mission Earth, Volume 1
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.
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overly abridged
- By Pielle Szabo on 01-10-17
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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Triple
- A Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
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Triple poorly performed
- By Jpop on 03-13-21
By: Ken Follett
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Hornet Flight
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- By C. McCoy on 03-13-05
By: Ken Follett
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The Templar Throne
- By: Paul Christopher
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In the 14th century, Templar knight Jean de Saint-Clair was tasked with piloting the order's treasure-laden fleets off the coast of France. To this end, he used a Jacob's Staff, a world-changing nautical instrument supposedly developed in his own time. Retired Army Ranger John Holliday knows better, for he possesses a similar instrument - one found in the hands of a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian mummy.
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awful narrator
- By K. Grow on 11-02-10
By: Paul Christopher
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- PF
- 02-21-09
Bond lives on!
This is enormous fun -- the same ambience and larger-than-life heroes and villains as Ian Fleming's James Bond, but set in today's times and with more circumstantial detail than Fleming usually provided. The plot twists and turns agreeably. A big part of the success of this audiobook is its superb narrator, whose pace, varied repertoire of dead-on accents and dialects, and nuance would be hard to excel. I'm really glad that there are more of these books.
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- bonnie
- 11-01-09
Excellent "read"
Thought provoking plot; likeable characters; quick pace; suffcient drama, action, intrigue and romance ... all in all a delightful additon and certainly an author and series from whom I want and expect more good things.
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- Elizabeth
- 04-10-10
Narrator is perfect
The story line is non-stop and the characters are interesting. The narrator is fantastic - I can't believe I haven't come across him before. His narration makes the story leap from the page, so to speak.
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- Geraldine
- 05-05-10
A Great Story minus one Important Element
Pirate is a James Bond like epic replete with international intrigue, historical references, yacht chases and much more. The story line is intricate and hard to hold onto in places. But it was kind of fun piecing the characters together with the right settings; and I didn't feel cheated making the effort -- I felt it was worth it. Throughout the book, however,with all the many characters, there was not a one who I identified with or who I cared about. That made the story a bit harder to get through.
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- Terryc
- 05-14-18
just a great story.
the story continues to bring more people into the world of excellence and excitement. you will love it.!
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- Craig Manning
- 10-26-18
Excellent listen!!!
Best book I’ve listened too all year! Ted Bell can spin an amazing yarn! And the narrator’s voice is easy on the ears. Love his differing voices for the various characters in the novel! Best Alex Hawke novel yet!!!!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-13-18
Outstanding
Great work Ted Bell. Love the story, the narration first rate, Hawke and Congrave, and Stokely, my man. Wide ranging swash buckeling ride. After screaming through Mitch Rapps adventures twice, living with Dewey Andreas, hanging with the Grey Man, cringing with Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport this was great fun. Starting the next Hawke book now at 1:20 in the a.m .. Can't get enough!
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- Nathan H. Chitty
- 12-22-15
Solid and enjoyable series.
Characters are well developed and fun. I like reading series like Mitchell Rapp and Gabriel Allon.
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- Jason D.
- 05-04-22
Completely captivating story!
Excellent! Fast-paced with numerous twists and turns. And you come to love the characters.
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- Omar
- 04-25-12
EXCELLENT!
I'm a big fan of the series. The narrator is great!!! Time flew by while listening.
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