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Edge

By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Skipp Sudduth
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Detective Kessler, a Washington DC cop working on a seemingly insignificant case, is targeted by a 'lifter'—a person who 'lifts' information from people. Yet this lifter is different from others: he kidnaps and endangers his target's family to give himself the "edge". The task of safeguarding Kessler falls to expert in personal security, Corte, as the FBI race to try and find out what has made someone so uneasy they've called in a 'lifter'....

©2010 Jeffery Deaver (P)2010 Whole Story Audio Books Espionage Mystery Police Procedurals Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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I was first gripped by Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series which, as with many 'series', went off the boil somewhat. I loved 'The Blue Nowhere', a non-Rhyme novel, so I thought I'd give this a try. I'm out-of-step with some other reviewers here, as I thought this was Deaver back to his best. Yes, I caught on to a couple of things early on, but I was sucked in by some red herrings. The number of plot twists in such a single-strand story was awesome, but above all, the characterisation of Corte, the hero and narrator, drew me in. And the final twist? Wouldn't have seen it coming in a million years! Yes, I could pick at the reader's aspirated 'wheapon', but I loved his voice. This was the most gripping audiobook I've listened to for some time; very highly recommended!

Deaver back on form!

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Love this story. I've read the book twice and couldn't wait to hear the audio version. The narrator reads it as cool and professional, bringing that calculated menace it needs. Glad I listened to it.

Great twists and turns.

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Interesting seeing FBI's way of doing things but not the suspense I though t there would have been

Enjoyable but lacking

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I too find the narrator seriously distracting. He has a very flat voice. There is a lot of internal dialogue in the book, explaining the thought processes of the main protagonists. This is delivered in such a flat monotone that I find it impossible to accept the main character as a plausible figure. I also found that some of the narrators idiosyncratic pronunciations set my teeth on edge over time (`moble' for `mobile', `colm' for `calm', pri*ma*ry with a stress on the second syllable, and these are just those returning most frequently).

Yes, there are a number of twists in the plot, and some of them stretch credibility. However, I find myself so distracted by the narrator that I feel I cannot fairly review the book on its own merits. I was never really drawn in, and that is fairly rare for me when listening to a Deaver novel. Maybe I'll read the book some time to see what it is like without an ever-present irritant.

To everybody considering this audio book I would strongly recommend trying to listen to an excerpt first.

Narrator flattens everything

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I am a keen reader of Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme detective novels so I thought I'd give this one a go. It's a good listen and as usual well researched which I found very interesting as I knew little about 'shepherds'. Unfortunately it lost me a bit at the end when the twists became too numerous and the reasoning behind how the culprit was discovered needed a few 'rewinds'!
Not his best but worth a listen.

Not as much an Edge as I'd have liked

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