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Michael McCann didn't plan to be riding around in the back of a French police inspector's car searching for terrorists in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He didn't expect to fall in love with a German detective's wife who would, by chance, be in exactly the wrong spot during the subsequent terrorist attacks on Paris in November of 2015. It was not on his agenda to suffer congestive heart failure and end up in a French hospital undergoing life-saving surgery. It certainly wasn't his intention to remain in France indefinitely, leaving behind his Portland, Oregon, law practice, family, and life.
In fact, he hadn't planned to visit Paris at all during his European sabbatical from his stressful career, but it is there that he finds himself wrestling with personal, romantic, family, health, and professional issues as he confronts life-and-death circumstances, completely at odds with his original tourist agenda in the City of Light.
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The Last Refuge
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line: he's a middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea. But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam is the only one who wonders why.
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A hero who doesn't work and play well with others.
- By Cholmondeley on 04-04-13
By: Chris Knopf
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The Last Place You Look
- By: Kristen Lepionka
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
- By Karwyn on 05-17-18
By: Kristen Lepionka
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Changing the Rules
- Richter, Book 1
- By: Catherine Bybee
- Narrated by: Lori Prince, Joe Arden
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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As an employee of MacBain Securities and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way...except one involving Cooper Lockman. Cooper and Claire used to work together before his feelings for her sent him packing to Europe for six long years. But now he’s back and determined to ignore the still-smoldering heat that lingers between them. Their current mission: go undercover together at a California high school to root out the mastermind behind a prostitution ring.
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Cooper & Claire Bring Down A Trafficking Ring!
- By B. Roscoe on 03-24-21
By: Catherine Bybee
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Kidnapped
- An Edgars Family Novel
- By: Suzanne Ferrell
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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FBI Agent Jake Carlisle is in deep trouble. While undercover he's been shot, but he's not sure if it's the crooks or local cops behind it. Worse, if he can't get help fast, two lives will be lost - his and that of the young witness, a boy whom he's sworn to protect. On the run from both the police and the Russian Mafia, Jake will do anything to save the child at his side, even something illegal. In desperation he kidnaps a nurse from a hospital parking lot.
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Great read and listen..
- By Trish R. on 07-04-16
By: Suzanne Ferrell
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- Rocky Melt
- 03-14-21
Wow - something real different. Great
Wow. This was awesome. It’s not every day you have a main charater suffering from heart failure while ending up in some French hospital awaiting critical surgery. So original and the story just got better. More!
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- Maximus
- 02-19-21
Enjoyable - a good listen
Enjoyed it. The story ran along well and the plot was just about right without getting me too lost. Good characters, especially Michael McCann. A part of me would have liked the story to have been longer, but throughly enjoyable
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- Romeo
- 02-19-21
Good story - I'm a McCann fan
Stuck at home during lockdown, so I listened to a number of audiobooks, this among the better ones.
Has elements of both romance, danger, and suspense. Dialog and writing style is good and narration not bad at all.
Really lived the main protagonist McCann.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-10-21
An engaging and captivating experience!
Truly a beautiful, and masterfully written, piece! The vivid depictions portrayed are as striking as if we were to witness these scenes in person. The performance is engaging and pulls you within the pages, honestly, it was over too soon.
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- Viv Aldi
- 03-14-21
Intrigue galore
Intrigue with abundance, with good players in the story. McCann should be developed into a series character.
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- Diane Reynolds
- 02-07-21
Action packed
This book is set during and after the terror attacks in Paris. They are described in detail from a first hand accounting.
There is action snd confusion and mystery. There is a very American take on Paris snd Parisien attitudes.
And it’s all going great. Until it takes a turn for the weird. I won’t spoil it... but the last third of the book is very different from the thriller style of the earlier part. It isn’t bad... just a big jarring to switch gears. And somehow the switch is never really explained or discussed either.
Overall though. A chilling account of terror that ends... not entirely unhappily. (No spoilers in reviews!)
I received this audiobook for free in exchange for a review
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- J.Morgan
- 03-14-21
Entertaining
Solid good story. Enjoyed listening to it a lot. I'm a big fan of Phillip Kerr and other thriller writers who set their books outside the USA. If you are the same, you should enjoy this book.
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