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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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Critic reviews

"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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This was a real roller coaster of a story-intrigue, twists and turns, with flawed but relatable characters-great narration and highly recommended.

Brilliant fast paced thriller

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3.75⭐️ A slow build which drew me in with its plot complexity. I didn’t gel with the narrator. Not in the same league as the first book, I didn’t get on board with the MC the same as with Joe.

Trad US procedural

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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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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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Having loved the previous book by Allen Eskens I was hopeful this would be just as good. Unfortunately it wasn’t, the narrator was dreadful particularly when narrating female parts. Lost track of the story a few times because of this.

Clever story

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If you want a book 2 with Joe Talbert don’t listen to this one. But the story is ok with lots of twists. I found the narrator’s voice quite annoying but it didn’t stop me listening to the end as I paid to listen to this one.

Note to self: read the reviews and have a taste of the audio before purchasing it…

No Joe Talbert

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The action of some characters ovarall a good book that I would recommend to a friend



The overall setting of betrayal

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The story starts off well with a deadly crash. The mystery that follows begins a tense and twisted chase by Alexander Rupert a detective who is trying to redeem himself but is fascinated by the case.
The characters are well drawn and interesting

A heartfelt story with some good twists.

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I enjoyed the story. Allen Eskens writes really well. Narrator lets it down. First book in series was narrated really well. This narrator makes all the female voices sound like cartoon characters which was very off-putting.

Enjoyable story well written

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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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