
Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told
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Narrated by:
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Nicholas Patrella
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By:
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Ian Thomas Healy
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Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
Such is the credo of the modern mercenary in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Three such antiheroes are brought together by a billionaire for a unique search-and-retrieval mission. If they succeed, they'll walk away free and clear with a big fat payday. But if they fail... Well, things will go badly for them. Their quest will take them to the far corners of the Earth, from central Australia to Brazil to the Eastern European micronation of Borlovia, all in search of one of the world's rarest treasures: the elusive and collectible TIS bottle. Three bottles, three chances to succeed...or fail. What could possibly go wrong?
©2011 Ian Thomas Healy (P)2018 Ian Thomas HealyThree misfits are hired to steal a priceless bottle and destroy the two maining bottles. Angel is the brains and as an assassin the muscle of the group. Camaro a teenager with more guts than experience is the driver and Haiwee is the hacker that everybody forgot. The three of them must pull off one of the most difficult challenges of there lives facing up against a drug Lord in Australia, a paedophile bishop in Brazil and a king in Bolivia. All of it bank rolled by a ruthless billionaire and if they don't return with one of the bottles in tacked then they have to pay every cent back one way or another. The team can call on his cybernetic ninja bodyguard and artificial intelligence for help but there are somethings that not even they can handle.
I liked the narrator he did a really good job and gave not only each character there own voice but also there own personality.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Hi-tech robbery
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The narrator's performance was a good one overall, keeping the cast sufficiently distinctive in tone to help the listener's immersion and keeping the tone and pace at the right level for the story too.
Overall, the author has created another interesting world and cast in this book that all contributed to my enjoyment of it.
[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]
Interesting world and characters
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Simple synopsis - Three loners, amongst the best in their fields (assassin, hacker and monowheel driver ) but down on their luck as far as well paid employment is concerned, team up for a really well paid commission: to steal a glass bottle for a mega-rich collector. There are only three of theses bottles left in existence. He wants one of them and the other two destroyed. Sounds simple except these other bottles are in the collections of a bishop in South America, a king of a trifling European country, and another billionaire in central Australia which has sealed itself off from the rest of the world. All will be hard to get at and heavily guarded. But think of the money....
Almost non stop action, explosions and fighting mixed with great characters, humerous dialogue and a few brief episodes of remarkable sexual tension. All performed by the remarkable Mr.Patrella whose pace matching, perfectly interpreted text reading ramps up excitement or slows down the tempo with full understanding as the story evolves. Each character is individually voiced, inflection and even accents delivered (near) flawlessly, non-English phrases rolling out effortlessly, too. His narration lifts an already fast and fun book into something no reader will want to put down.
This is a book I am happy to recommend to any adult reader who enjoys written larger than life unusual action, with a big slice of imagination and humour and quirky characters. It's very visual and enormous in it's range both across the world and even into space.
Hope there will be more coming soon.
I hate working for free.
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