This Is Life: Or Jack Unravels a Crooked Cop Ring and Stops a Big-Gun Shooter
Jack Palms Crime, Book 2
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Jack Palms is more interested in tuning up his vintage Mustang than starring in action films these days. Along with his failed marriage and plenty of bad habits, Jack abandoned his acting career three years ago, and life’s just the way Jack wants it: boring.
But picking up where Jack Wakes Up left off, Jack now finds himself in the middle of a whodunit in the seedy red-light district of San Francisco’s North Beach. Young girls, shipped as merchandise from Balkan countries and sold to city heavyweights, are turning up dead, and no one knows why. And closer to home, a crooked cop steps out of Jack’s past and into his backyard, taking potshots from the bushes at midnight. Sergeant Mills Hopkins, SFPD, thinks someone big is responsible for the bodies and the bullet holes. And if Jack is going to find out who’s pulling the triggers, he’ll have to forget about the quiet life and act more like an action hero.
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Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he’s a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detective. Busted to night patrol at a robbery-prone Omaha supermarket, Worth is doing time, wearing his uniform and asking shoppers if they want paper or plastic. If that isn’t enough, he suspects he might be falling for Gwen, the shy checkout girl who may be an even bigger mess than he is. It couldn’t get any worse. Until it does.
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A Really Good Modern American Noir Crime Novel
- By Frank Donnelly on 04-23-20
By: Sean Doolittle
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Whiskey Sour
- Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mysteries, Book 1
- By: J. A. Konrath
- Narrated by: Susie Breck, Dick Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself "The Gingerbread Man" is dumping mutilated bodies in her district.
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Like the book but GRAPHIC details
- By Kari on 10-31-09
By: J. A. Konrath
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Night Life
- By: David C. Taylor
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary United States intelligence agency, and the bodies of murdered young men are turning up all over the city.
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terrific in every way
- By Martha on 04-12-16
By: David C. Taylor
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The Night Market
- By: Jonathan Moore
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. When he awakens, Carver works to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of conspiracy that spans the nation.
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Can’t believe there aren’t more reviews
- By Emily McDonald on 01-24-18
By: Jonathan Moore
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A Drink Before the War
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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Already Gone
- By: John Rector
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art-buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet - ordinary even. And he likes it that way. But it wasn’t always quiet. Jake’s distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him.
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My time is already gone!
- By T.D. on 07-11-12
By: John Rector
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All Involved
- A Novel
- By: Ryan Gattis
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez, Marisol Ramirez, Jim Cooper, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price—a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central LA in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores.
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Best Multiple Narrative Since the Poisonwood Bible
- By Alan McCarron on 04-22-15
By: Ryan Gattis
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Persistence
- By: Marc Costanzo
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Celia Miller is the Ravencourt PD's only female officer. When she's not contending with the latest in a long line of lowlife drug abusers and wife beaters who pay more attention to her body than her badge, she has to put up with a police force that refuses to respect her. But Celia has a job to do, and for months her middle-of-nowhere desert town has been victimized by an increasingly violent gang dubbed "The Illegals". The alien masks they wear have made them an urban legend, but Celia's off-the-books investigation has uncovered the true scope of their criminal operation.
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Great Summer Thriller
- By Jill Reeves on 06-28-18
By: Marc Costanzo
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Heat Wave
- By: Richard Castle
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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The title character from ABC's hit television series Castle kicks off his new series of books featuring tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat with a bang.
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Good book terrible narrator
- By Patti on 12-29-09
By: Richard Castle
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A Tap on the Window
- By: Linwood Barclay
- Narrated by: Mark Zeisler
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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International best-selling author Linwood Barclay delivers pulse-pounding suspense that puts him among the masters of the genre. A Tap on the Window finds private investigator Cal Weaver making an ill-advised decision to pick up a young female hitchhiker who reminds him of his dead son. But something is off about the girl, and Cal is soon drawn into a host of nightmarish secrets.
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5 Stars for Tap on the Window
- By shelley on 04-16-14
By: Linwood Barclay
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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
- By: Charlie Huston
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Webster Fillmore Goodhue has found temporary work as one of the mop-up crew for the Los Angeles County crime division. In other words, he cleans up grisly crime scenes for the cops. When the daughter of a recent Malibu suicide victim asks for his help cleaning up after her brother has gotten into a little trouble, every cell in Web's brain is telling him to turn her down. But she's very attractive, and before he knows it, he's well on his way to getting his face kicked in.
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Funny!
- By Alan on 01-19-09
By: Charlie Huston
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- Spooky Mike
- 01-05-19
I am Jack's Complete Amusing Action Thriller
I think that Jack constantly being asked when he is going to make another movie really was ironic as Jack’s story really plays out like a movie. Picture Michael Bay writing a crime noir story where good guys are loose cannons and the bad guys are crooked cops. Everything is quite unbelievable with the plot and although it is a bit over the top at times it was a fun ride. Even though this is a series it stands alone quite well.
The characters are all quite interesting and quite enjoyable, although don’t expect any great personal struggles or big character shifts. Jack is a man’s man with his classic Mustang, although I think my favorite character was Freeman. The bad guys are just as much fun as they are your typical Russian gangsters and some crooked cops.
The plot is fast paced and contains pretty much everything one would want from an action thriller like this. Very reminiscent of classic 80s and 90s detective whodunit style thrillers mixed with a lot of heavy hitting action. I’m not sure if this story is supposed to be taken seriously but I would say you shouldn’t and just enjoy the ride. Only complaint about the plot is that the setting isn’t as fleshed out as I would like but that isn’t the point of this story.
Much like most movies I don’t think they portrayed guns correctly. 50 caliber rifles aren’t that hard to get and are not that rare. Clip and magazine are not interchangeable, especially within the same sentence.
The narration perfectly matches the characters and the story itself. There are a few different people voicing the characters so you really get pulled into the story more and get to experience the different personalities each character has.
I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.
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- Anne M. Wenzel
- 12-10-18
Love novels based in SF - and this is a great crime novel
So few novels are set in SF, I love when I come across them. This is a violent crime novel, with a lot of swearing, so it may not be for everyone. I found it gripping ~ I really enjoyed the story and characters.
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- Kareen
- 01-18-19
LOTS OF FUN!
An original hero, an original story, lots of twists and turns. Recommended. New and different!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-13-20
original palms daddy
first heard the palms books when you did them on podcast. live you left on voice characters. keep up the work and cranking out those great novels.
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- Jeannie
- 12-05-18
This Is (Jack’s) Life! Full Cast Audio
Wow. That’s all I can say after getting into this thriller from Harwood, one of my favorite writers. I loved listening to the different voices from various actors. This one played out like a full-cast audio with different people doing the voices, bringing their own accents and intonations to the characters. Really deepened the experience of listening for me. Great stuff!
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- Pamela M. Neumann
- 01-30-19
Great story
I completely enjoyed this story. Great characters and the story was easy to follow. It is a story that you can just relax with and enjoy it without effort.
I was excited when I read that there were going to have different people doing the voices of the different characters. The voices weren’t great and it seemed the quality of the audio was not great. Sounds like they recorded it in someone’s basement on a Saturday afternoon.
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- Rayc
- 01-20-19
A Good read / listen
This Is Life: Or Jack Unravels a Crooked Cop Ring and Stops a Big-Gun Shooter Jack Palms Crime, Book 2. Action packed fast paced crime thriller. It can be read as a stand alone novel - but I kinda wish I'd read book 1 in the series.
Seth's narration is very good,
A good read/listen I can recommend.
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- J. Blanas
- 11-26-18
Jack Wakes Up 2: Jack Wakes Up Harder!!!
Loved the original podcast enough to pick up the book, and loved that enough to pick up the audiobook. The only thing missing was the feeling that I wasn't being told to get those earmuffs on those kids often enough, but that could be from originally listening to it weekly. Jack returns home from his road trip to find out that the city that seemed out to kill him in the first book hasn't forgotten about him. This book also introduces Jane Gannon, who'll get her own badass adventure in "In Broad Daylight." Alas, now I have to wait for Czechmate to come out in audiobook. Luckily, there's a Kindle version now, so I've got time to read it before once again listening to Palmsdaddimus Prime and his crew Shake 'Em Down a third time.
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- Rhonda
- 12-28-18
Good hard core crime drama
I found this to be a very good crime book. It felt like an old school type of book with all the hard core cop drama that kept my interest. The narration was good for this type of book. I was voluntarily provided this review copy audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator.
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- Teresa
- 12-24-18
It's a Cold World and This Is Life; ... Lean Back
This Is Life was a good listen. It drew me in pretty fast and I had a hard time stopping it to go to bed. This is Jack Palms Crime, Book 2 and I was able to listen to it as a stand alone but now it made me want to hear book one. Jack is a well-rounded solid character who even with a bad habit or two is still quite likeable. The supporting character of Freeman was also excellent although a bit scary. I liked Jane too.
The setting in San Francisco was a good one and the story, location, and characters were all very cohesive. I like Seth Harwoods writing style, even the song he used. That was cleverly done.
The narration was very well done. The characters had distinct voices and personas but they weren't overkill. They were just right. The main ones being Jack and Freeman but there was also the character named Buddha plus I liked when Jane came in somewhere around halfway or more. All were really good.
Note: I also really like the cover art on this book.
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