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    Hard Road
    Hard Road
    Hard Road
    Audiobook8 hours

    Hard Road

    Written by J. B. Turner

    Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Jon Reznick is a “ghost”: a black-ops specialist who takes his orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, he’s dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only that it must look like suicide. It’s textbook.

    But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is wrong. In an instant the operation is compromised, and Reznick is on the run with the man he was sent to kill. A man wanted by the FBI, and by a mysterious terrorist organization hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is determined to track him down, and to intercept whatever it is Reznick was sent to do.

    When Reznick’s young daughter becomes a pawn in the game, he has to use more than his military training to stay one step ahead of those responsible. Meanwhile, he is the only person who knows the true extent of the threat to national security—and has the stealth and determination to stop it.

    Revised edition: This edition of Hard Road includes editorial revisions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781531837136
    Hard Road
    Author

    J. B. Turner

    J. B. Turner is the author of the Jon Reznick series of conspiracy action thrillers (Hard Road, Hard Kill, Hard Wired, Hard Way, and Hard Fall), as well as the Deborah Jones political thrillers (Miami Requiem and Dark Waters). He loves music, from Beethoven to the Beatles, and watching good films, from Manhattan to The Deer Hunter. He has a keen interest in geopolitics. He lives in Scotland with his wife and two children.

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    • 2/5
      I ended up reading through the last of this in a rush -- not because I was caught up in the plot, sadly, but because I really really wanted to give it a fair review, since I was given access to it on Netgalley, and I wanted to get it out of the way. I'm willing to try pretty much anything Angry Robot and the associated imprints put out, which is why I requested Hard Road.It's not exactly my genre, the spy-thriller stuff, but I can get into it with a little of the right ingredients: solid characters, or a novel plot, or elements of some other genre I'm more interested in. At the point I was getting tired of this -- around 35%, or probably before that, really -- none of those had manifested, and at that point I'd usually totally abandon the book. Unfortunately, for me, nothing materialised in the rest of the book to make me feel enthusiastic either.The references to 9/11 might mean more, emotionally, to an North American audience: for me it was a horrifying event, but it didn't strike me personally where I live as it did so many Americans. Possibly a slightly older audience, too; I was only twelve when it happened, and while I saw the coverage and so on, my world still revolved around myself. The whole thing has that air, too: I wonder if I would care more if I knew more about the places being referenced, the departments being pulled into it, the whole background this plays out against. That's not normally a problem for me, but when there's buzzwords like "national security" and "9/11" and "FBI", it seems to set it firmly in a world I only see in fiction and only care about when it's NCIS.(That's a bit too glib, I would probably also care about it if it involved Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, but I can't guarantee that.)By the standards of the genre, and people interested in the genre to begin with, I don't think there's anything wrong with this book. It's well-paced, there's conspiracy and mystery and danger and all of that. The main character's badass and he knows what he's doing, but not invincible -- he has his weak spots.

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    • 4/5
      This was my first book by this author. The writing was entertaining and the story was fun. It moved very quickly and had plenty of action. It was not as descriptive as some novels and the characters did not come alive to me the way I wanted them to but I still enjoyed the book and will listen to more by this author.

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    • 5/5
      Very intriguing, compelling and it keeps you at the edge of your seat all the time. Super good stuff.
    • 5/5
      Excellent! I would recommend it! It will keep you on the edge of your seat.
    • 5/5
      Great characters and exciting looking forward to the next one!
    • 4/5
      Nice short story. Characters develop well and it feels like the start of a new franchise.
    • 4/5
      Exciting from start to finish. Excellent reader with a great voice.
    • 5/5
      Lots of action, fast moving. Hard to stop listening. Great book!
    • 5/5
      Great read looking forward to the next one in the series
    • 5/5
      Terrific book . Flowing , on edge Suspenseful .
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    • 4/5
      Anticlimactic ending which left us a bit disappointed in this story.
    • 5/5
      The main character, John R. Is well described by Turner as a "get'r done" operative. Whether it be an assassination or a rescue assignment, military and intelligence operations training results in the means being justified by an end result....mission accomplished! Turner weaves on his loom antagonists of current day and our age into a fast moving novel. Not to be compared with Jack R. But as duely noted by Lee Child, Turner has master crafted another hero that always has respect for protagonist heroine wings who fold into the story " respectful romanticism" that keep the readers hopeful.
    • 5/5
      I'm sold, give me more. This has the perfect mix of action, intrigue, and gore.
    • 2/5
      Just too clumsy to really enjoy. No real suspense despite being a suspense thriller.