Whisper
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Narrateur(s):
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John Solo
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Auteur(s):
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Tal Bauer
À propos de cet audio
On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed.
Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars.
When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.
After being captured, tortured to the edge of his life, and left for dead by his comrades, David doesn't know how much of himself is left. He vanished in the tribal belt of Pakistan, and the man who walks out almost a decade later is someone new: Al Dakhil Al-Khorasani.
Intelligence from multiple sources overseas points to something new. Something deadly, and moving to strike the United States. Intercepts say an army from Khorasan, the land of the dead where the Apocalypse of Islam will rise, is coming. And, at the head of this army, a shadowy figure the US hasn't seen before: Al Dakhil Al-Khorasani.
David is coming home.
Contains mature themes.
©2018 Tal Bauer (P)2021 TantorIncredible Story
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surprisingly good!
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Beautiful and heartrending!
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A few irritants: Bauer's writing style does tend to stray a little too often into overwrought, purple-ish prose, but not so much that it's not worth the read/listen.
Commendations are due to John Solo for the narration. But, and this is a matter of personal taste because fans of the book are gushing with praise for Solo's performance, I found the performance also overwrought in its way, perhaps consistent with Bauer's own writing style. But I prefer understated narration, rather than the overacting which is often preferred by Americans. I wanted a little bit more of letting the writing speak for itself, or not needing to ADD to the already overwritten emotion.
Also, and this was my biggest irritant: I was disappointed by the relatively poor pronunciation of the Spanish and Arabic. I would have expected better, if the narrator had had better coaching from native speakers. The one that hurt my ears the most was the constant mispronunciation of "Iraq," even when the word was uttered by an Arabic-speaking character. it is NOT pronounced Eye-rack. In English it is Ih-rack, at a minimum, although preferably it's Ee-rock, and that is certainly closer to how an Arabic speaker would say it. Everytime I heard Eye-rack, it interrupted my immersion in the narrative.
For all that, though, I recommend this book highly. Especially for those who still think the world is easily divided into The Good Guys (America), and The Bad Guys (Muslims).
Love it, even with its flaws
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So Amazing
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