The Off-Islander
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The Off-Islander
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Narrateur(s):
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Keith Sellon-Wright
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Auteur(s):
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Peter Colt
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Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything - no matter how brutal - happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases.
Roark's childhood friend, Danny Sullivan, dragged himself out of blue-collar Southie to become a respected and powerful lawyer. Now he wants Roark to help one of his clients with a sensitive request. Deborah Swift, wealthy wife of an aspiring California politician, is trying to trace her father, last seen on Cape Cod, who walked out on her and her mother long ago. Other investigators have turned up nothing, but Roark's local connections might give him an edge.
The case takes Roark to the island of Nantucket, tranquil in its off-season, and laden with picturesque charm. Yet even here, on the quaint cobblestoned streets and pristine beaches, Roark's finely honed senses alert him to danger just below the surface. Nothing is quite as it seems. And the biggest case of Roark's career may just shatter what little peace of mind he has left....
©2019 Peter Colt (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksGreat story
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I love hard-boiled noir and this introduction to New England gumshoe and Vietnam vet, Andrew Roark, was a humdinger. Roark has struggled to fit in for a decade, since returning home from the war, and has finally settled on the life of a private eye: he can be his own boss, and work simple cases that will ensure he doesn’t get shot at.
That is, until he does a job for his high-profile defense attorney pal, Danny Sullivan: help a wealthy California socialite find her long-missing father, a struggling vet of Korea.
There’s a lot of interesting monologuing about PTSD, and despite being written in the 2010s, it has a solid grasp of the 1980s view of soldiers and the American opinion of their trying to adapt back to civilian life.
Keith Sellon-Wright is an amazing narrator, with a great delivery where Roark’s anger or frustration is conveyed even in something as simple as announcing the next chapter. A fully immersive experience that draws you into an intriguing slow-burn mystery that concludes with both an explosive climax and shocking denouement. Despite having a LOT of moving parts, Peter Colt ties this tale up like an expert. A must-listen!
An amazing accidental find!
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