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Tuesday, 26 March 2013

The Zero Hour – Joseph Finder

FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert Sarah Cahill doesnâ€™t know the man sheâ€™s tracking. But the so-called â€œPrince of Darknessâ€ knows herâ€”intimately. So when Sarah is summoned to Wall Street to investigate, little does she know that sheâ€™s the one under surveillanceâ€¦ until the terrorist infiltrates himself into the deepest, most desperate corners of her life. Soon Sarah is plunged into a deep labyrinth of intrigue and catastrophe as she races to uncover a diabolically clever conspiracyâ€¦before time runs outâ€¦and the clock strikes THE ZERO HOUR.

Saturday, 9 March 2013

The Zero Game – Brad Meltzer

Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they’re bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out as good fun-a simple wager between friends. But when someone close to them ends up dead, Harris and Matthew realize the game is far more sinister than they ever imagined-and that they’re about to be the game’s next victims. On the run, they turn to the only person they can trust: a 16-year-old Senate page who can move around the Capitol undetected. As a ruthless killer creeps closer, this idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but is also determined to redeem them in the process. Come play The Zero Game-you can bet your life on it.
Unabridged.
Read by Scott Brick.

Sunday, 22 July 2012

Year Zero – Rob Reid

An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up…. In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe – and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything – and the aliens are not amused.
Unabridged.
Read John Hodgman.