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The Draxler Program

By: I. Q. Malcolm
Narrated by: Leslie A. Rice IV
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The choices that make us are the same ones that break us - a fact that Pete Rivers, a convicted con artist, knows all too well. After a lifetime of tough choices gone wrong, he thought he faced his easiest decision to date. Enroll in the Draxler Program and keep his brain intact, or do nothing and accept the mandatory brainwashing at the end of his prison sentence. If only it were that simple.

Rivers soon finds out the Draxler Program isn’t actually a criminal reform program. It’s a reality TV show, and he’s a contestant. Like him, his fellow contestants are convicted felons, and their lives now rest in the hands of the voting public. The winner gets to earn their freedom with their mind intact, and the losers face an early trip to the washer. Or is there a third choice?

Malcolm’s debut novel is a fast-paced, mind-bending thriller with a twist you’ll never see coming.

©2018 I. Q. Malcolm (P)2019 I.Q. Malcolm Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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The Draxler Program is set in a near future or alternate world system, very similar to our own, but where convicted repeating criminals are mind 'washed' after serving their sentences, to spend the remainder of their lives as near mindless drones. Peter has a!ready served part of his prison time as a convicted confidence artist when he is offered a possible way out of the much feared brainwashing: a tough and radical three year reform program for a few selected prisoners, which, if successfully accomplished, promises released without mindsetting. There is a downside: failure within the Draxler program results in the earlier ending of prison time and immediate 'washing', but success would mean freedom in just three years. Despite the probable hardships, it sounds too good to be true. And as any good conman should know, if it sounds too good it probably is.

This fast action novel follows Peter as he meets fellow Draxler candidates and learns that all is not as it has been said to be. Like Peter, the reader is taken through a journey of trying to survive in situations which seem to alter perspectivd. The characters are interesting, though not always empathic or fully deve!op-ed although the excellent narration of Leslie A.Rice very much helps to give them substance, each protagonist portrayed individually, and Mr.Rice's rounded, deep and honeyed voice perfectly suited for Peter, from whose point of view the story is written. A good overall performance, read with emotional connection to the text.

My thanks to the rights holder of The Draxler Program, who, at my request via Audiobook Boom, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. It was a very enjoyable listen and, although different in content, reminded me of the film, The Game, 1997, starring Michael Douglas - the feeling of life being out of control. This is certainly a book I would recommend to readers who enjoy their thrillers to be a little bit different and one which I might possibly return to re-read in the future

Nothing shatters quite as painfully as hope.

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