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This Is Life: Or Jack Unravels a Crooked Cop Ring and Stops a Big-Gun Shooter
- Jack Palms Crime, Book 2
- Narrated by: Seth Harwood
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
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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- Norma Miles
- 07-01-19
When's the next movie coming out, Jack?
He might have played the hard hitting, fast firing action hero in his one off movie success, Shake 'em Down, but in real life Jack Palms was more the flee from than the go to guy. Having essentially blown both his career and marriage in the excessive delights of Hollywood stardom, he'd finally kicked both drug habit and alcohol dependency rand eturned home to San Francisco after an exhilerating freedom of several biker weeks with his Czech friends, hoping that all would now be quiet. Not to be. Not only does he find a note in his kitchen from his police friend requesting he call on him - so the man had obviously been inside his house whilst be was away - but also that his bed, sheets anythingd pillows had been burned to a black char whilst he was gone. Later that night, someone tried to shoot him from his garden and he found all of his doors unlocked. Not the tranquil restart he'd envisiaged.
And it was going to get so very much worse.
This is a full on, action adventure detective story with very little time to draw breath. There is, however time for humour and the protagonists, wierd and wonderful as several of them are, are well characterized. The story is told entirely from Jack's perspective, the readers made privy to his musings, moans and guilts as well as following him through the tricky.minefield of his life. Which might not be a very long one, either, unless he can work out who to trust. Great snappy dialogue, well described fights and other encounters, and all felt very human, including the voicing of the very frequent and overused expletive 'F***k', though, goodness knows, it certainly seemed the most appropriate thing to say most of the time.
The story is narrated by the author, Seth Harwood, with a little help from friends who take a few of the character parts. This Audible is, according to the introduction, a s!ightly revised version of his serialized podcast, which explains the very occasional repetition of information already given. Mr.Harwood reads his story well, good pace to fit the text and a slightly downbeat tone which really suited his main character.. The added voices too, were exce!!ent, bringing a refreshing full cast feel to the production. There were a few editorial glitches, where the narrator stumbled over a word of two and corrected without removing the fault, but these were minor. And on at least one occasion, a whole paragraph was repeated. Nice brief bursts of music were occasionally inserted and, rather strange, the chapter numbers were given almost sarcastically enthusiastic rendering. But overall, this was a most enjoyable performance of a pretty good thriller.
My thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted a complimentary copy of This is Life, via Audiobook Boom.It was fun, exciting and a really good unexpected read. I will certakn!y be looking out for more productions by Seth Harwood.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Darren Raynor
- 09-03-20
Fantastic follow up
Absolutely fantastic second book in this series. It’s my second time around for these and they haven’t lost anything in the years since I first did them.
The characters are enthralling and very well defined. A truly enjoyable adventure. Kept me on the edge of my seat despite the fact Ive heard it before.
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