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The Guise of Another

By: Allen Eskens
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability.

But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars and a sociopath assassin who has been searching for Putnam for years. Putnam had something that Basta still wants. If Rupert's life was in shambles before, it's now also in danger. Threatened by the Beast and suspecting his wife of cheating, Rupert falls for the seductions of the dead man's former girlfriend. As he feels his life spinning out of control, his steadfast brother and fellow police detective Max may be Rupert's last hope.

©2015 Allen Eskens (P)2015 Tantor Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigators Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime

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"It's a taut, intelligent, heart-ripping story that explores the darkest places in the human psyche." (William Kent Krueger, author of Iron Lake)
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Allen Eskens is currently one of my favourite authors. His books are absorbing and well written with realistic characters. This one is no different. I missed Joe Talbert, who doesn’t appear, but the Rupert brothers (especially Max) are part of the Joe Talbert world and this book focuses on them. The plot was gripping and I listened in two days because it was hard to drag myself away. I’d agree with other reviewers that the narrator wasn’t as good as the narrator for ‘The Life We Bury’, but he wasn’t that bad. Overall, this book didn’t disappoint.

Outstanding page-turner

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I read Book 1 of the series and thoroughly enjoyed it. This one however was very disappointing. The grating drawl of the narrator did not help - his voice was just irritating. The plot was totally implausible in so many different ways. I listened because it was free from the Plus catalogue but I don’t recommend.

Not a patch on the first book

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I thought this might be an interesting investigation but the nasty evil violence has made me stop listening. No thanks

No thanks

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I liked everything about this story, good characters fast paced great narrative, listened to this in two days

Great

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The narrator needs to be replaced with the same person who done the first book I got haft way thu this and just opted to read the actual book

Good book

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