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    The Widow File
    The Widow File
    The Widow File
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Widow File

    Written by S.G. Redling

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Dani, a data analyst with an elite security firm, possesses the unnerving ability to read people by the trash they leave behind. Receipts, parking tickets, the detritus of daily life—if you leave it behind, she will figure you out.

    Her latest case involves high-tech industrial espionage at a corporation with ties to the military. But when a team of assassins sweeps through the firm, stealing all files and killing her coworkers, Dani narrowly escapes. Whoever ordered the strike thinks Dani has vital information and they put a hit man named Booker on her trail.

    Armed with only her wits and a bag of random investigation materials, Dani must figure out who the enemy really is while playing a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the cunning hit man who has an agenda of his own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781480538672
    The Widow File
    Author

    S.G. Redling

    S.G. Redling is the author of more than a half-dozen novels. A Hoboken, New Jersey, native, Redling was raised in West Virginia. After graduating from Georgetown University and living in New York City and California, she resettled in West Virginia and launched a fifteen-year morning radio career. Now off the air, she still lives and writes in West Virginia, simultaneously pursuing obsessions with locavore dining, sustainable gardening, and international travel.

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    • 4/5
      Dani is a data analyst for a Virginia-based security firm. Her latest case involves high tech industrial espionage. Suddenly, the client cancels the investigation, all material and notes gathered are to be returned to the client. But before this can occur, a team sweeps through the firm killing all the employees and stealing all the files. Only Dani and her friend Choo-Choo, narrowly escape. Running from the hitman assigned to find and kill them Dani must figure out who is the enemy ….

      The tight weave of this story kept me on the edge of my chair. No time to question just time to react. I can’t wait to read more from S.G. Redling.
    • 3/5
      THE WIDOW FILE was a gritty, realistic thriller with a very complicated plot. Dani works for an exclusive and secretive investigative firm outside Washington, D.C. She is what they call a Paint. Her specialty is learning about a person by the garbage they leave behind. She is a quiet, private person whose only friends are her colleagues at work but the friendships are surface, "work" friendships. When the boss tells them to drop their current case and pack up all materials gathered, Dani has to take a quick trip home to get evidence she had left there. When she returns, she finds most of her colleagues dead and a team of killers searching the house for evidence and any stragglers. Dani does manage to hide and then escape to the roof where she finds another colleague - Choo Choo. Together the two of them manage to elude the kill team and go on the run. Besides telling the story from Dani's viewpoint, we get the viewpoint of the hired assassin who orchestrated the invasion of Dani's workplace and who is still determined to find and kill Dani. He doesn't have any respect for the people who hired him but he is interested in Dani. The two of them begin a phone relationship though neither can trust the other. The story was filled with gritty realism. We see Dani's terror and confusion as she is on the run from an unknown enemy. We watch her get so tired that the idea of giving up seems reasonable. We see her stubbornness as she tries to outwit her unknown enemy. She will need to be careful, clever and lucky to get out of this situation alive.My main problem with this thriller was that I never did figure out who the bad guys really were and who they were working for. But, since this was Dani's story, I could overlook that as I watched the way Dani survived. Fans of thrillers will enjoy this action-packed story.
    • 3/5
      It's not bad, but it's not me AT ALL.
    • 2/5
      I'm a sucker for books with brilliant, eccentric characters who see things that other people overlook, and notice patterns that other people miss. I took a chance on this one because its heroine -- Dani Britton, a data analyst at an elite private security firm -- promised to be such a character. Three chapters in, the story was unfolding like a gender-swapped Three Days of the Condor, Dani was behaving like the heroine of a routine woman-in-jeopardy thriller rather than the smartest person in the room, and I was looking for something more satisfying to read.
    • 5/5
      My criteria for a 5 star review is... if I can not stop turning the pages, I am in! I was turning the pages like crazy most of the way through this book. I was a little unhappy with the ending but, hey....not my book. I would love for this to be a series with Dani and Choo Choo stomping out the bad guys! Dani works as a data analyst for the big security company Rasmund, she has the unique ability to read the things people throw away, their trash. late for work one day and coming in the back way she stumbles upon a team of hit men who are killing everyone in the building and looking for something. Dani hides and barely escapes with one of her co workers, the fabulous Choo Choo. Dani and Choo Choo are on the run and don't know which way to turn or who to trust. As they try and stay alive and figure out just what it is they might have that the killers want, we are treated to a wild and crazy ride. This book was a kindle first freebie from Amazon...:)
    • 4/5
      This story grabs you from the opening paragraph and doesn't let go. The plot is intricate, intense, and thought-provoking. We're given little bits along the way that gradually form the bigger picture. And there are some great unexpected twists.The characters are fascinating, multi-layered personalities. I really grew to like Dani. She's unexpectedly tough, independent and resilient. I enjoyed her connection with Choo-Choo, though I never understand why he was given such a ridiculous name.Two issues kept this from being a 5-star read for me. First, the story lacked detail in relatively important areas. For instance, we jump right into the chaos of a case gone wrong, making it initially difficult to figure out what was going on. I would have liked a little more build-up with the main characters and the type of work they do. Also, the ending was abrupt. All the pieces were neatly summed up without showing us anything. The other problem for me is that the 'bad guy' was never really clarified. This might have been intentional on the author's part, wanting readers to form their own conclusions. But I felt the plot needed and deserved a definitive explanation. Despite these issues, this book stands out as one of those suspense novels you won't soon forget.
    • 5/5
      Terrifying thriller stars short, nerdy heroineThis book starts in a leisurely fashion then quickly takes off, setting the fastest pace of any book I’ve read recently. Almost all of the action takes place in one breath-taking harrowing day, but though the book gripped and terrified me so much I could hardly put it down, a short summary of The Widow File--a thriller set in an elite security firm--would not necessarily have made me want to read it. Luckily I’ve learned to trust S. G. Redling’s skill as a storyteller, and if you look a little closer at the description there are clues this thriller is going to be special, the most important being that the main character Dani isn’t glamorous, she’s short and nerdy and reads people by examining their trash. Rasmund, the security firm Dani works for, uses her idiosyncratic talents to thwart industrial espionage for high paying corporate clients. Though she’s quite fond of her co-workers she’s something of a loner, and gets so caught up in her work she’s disappointed when their most recent job is cancelled. Since she takes her work home she has to go back to her apartment to retrieve materials--in her case it’s mostly trash--that must be returned to the client, but when she gets back to Rasmund she finds all her colleagues dead, shot by the very thorough team of assassins she’s now trapped in the building with. To stay alive she must escape and stay one step ahead of the determined hit man who is sure she has something he wants, though Dani has no idea what it is. Her only weapons are a quirky intelligence that notices patterns other people don’t, and the canny habits she learned from her truck driving father on their cross country trips together. Widow File is the third book I’ve read by S. G. Redling, and I highly recommend them all. Though their settings and circumstances are impressively varied, so far each of her novels features an off-beat female character whose personal drama is part of a monumental event. Widow File has Dani caught up in what looks like some kind of industrial terrorism, Flowertown has a deadbeat junkie trapped in a massive chemical containment disaster that poisons and permanently quarantines a town full of people, and in Damocles the main character is a lone linguist in the midst of engineers, all thrown together on a long-term space mission in search of human-like life forms that results in first contact.