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The Guise of Another

Written 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 Hard-Boiled Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigators Suspense Thriller Exciting

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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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I'm Hooked

Another great book! I'm loving these characters and their stories. Can't wait to start the next book! 👍🏾

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Terrific!

Another terrific work by Esken!
This one was more violent and the author tried to add some humour to the dialogues but the storyline was gripping and very well executed.
The last 20% was riveting and I loved the conclusion.

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Not bad

This was a good story...however I sometimes mixed up the characters. The ending surprised me.

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Could not stop listening!

It took me a bit longer than the first book to really get into the character and story of it all but the minute that chase starts.... wow! What a great read. Only thing I wish was done better was the narration. His accent and character voices were pretty awful in my opinion, it could have been done better.

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GREAT

I am really enjoying this series. Keeps my attention and reads like a movie! I am looking forward to continuing.

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Grating Narrator

Story was fine. Narration was just plain bad, especially the women’s breathy voices. Almost quit several times.

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Good Thriller

The story line was very good. A but was predictable, but some good twists. I disliked the narration. The voices for the females were horrible. Made it hard to develop any feeling for those characters.

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Where did this narrator audition? Off-off Broadway?

The story was quite good, but dude reads it like he’s incredulous to all of it. People just don’t talk like that. The constant intonation is GRATING. You might not have a face for radio, but you certainly don’t have a voice for audiobooks.

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Not a bad plot, but twists were lacking a bit

It seemed a little lean on the suspense side. Liked some of his other books better

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Thrilling read

Lots of twist and turns keeping the listener enthralled. Hard to to stop listening for wanting to know what comes next!

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