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Bloodless

Written by: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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Publisher's Summary

INSTANT number one New York Times best seller: Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA.

A fabulous heist:
On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night...and into history.

A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence:
Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.

A case like no other:
As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how—or if—these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer...but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.

©2021 Douglas Preston (P)2021 Hachette Audio

What the critics say

"Leave it to the imaginations of Preston and Child... Spooky and surreal [and] wonderful fun." —Kirkus

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bring back orig narrator

couldn't stand the narrators voice for Constance. please bring back the original narrator. overall good story though can't wait for the next book

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This was typical Pendergast- met my expectations.
I was a little taken aback by the creatures, I could have done without them - sorry.
I was not pleased with the narrator- he made Constance sound like she was 60.
He got AX down pat with the southern drawl- he got that right.

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Bloodless

A worthy addition to the Pendergast series. Followers are sure to enjoy this sewual.

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Pendergast

Who doesn't love this character? If you have read one book about him .... you're hooked!
Yet another good read

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Great story, great performance

Interesting story with a little bit of history thrown in.
My only complaint is the changes with volume. Some of the characters voices were quite loud while others I could barely hear requiring me adjust the volume quite often. This issue will not stop me from enjoying the story again in the future.

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Change narrator, change characters

A lover of audiobooks, I was disappointed not to hear the essence of Pendergast. Always expecting the unexpected, this story Strange, and perhaps serves only as a prelude to the next adventure.

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Not up to par.

Overall, I am a solid Pendergast fan. I restarted the series on Audible and worried, laughed and and sometimes grieved my way through all the titles, beginning to end. I pre-ordered this title, anxiously awaiting it. Do yourselves a favour everyone, and order an actual book or digital version of this title. The storyline was clever, if a little more far fetched than usual. That part could have been toned down a bit. But the worst part was the narration. How someone could have made Coldmoon so cold and loudly obnoxious and Constance so loud with such a fake Southern drawl and haughtiness is beyond me. Did the narrator not read or listen to any prior books? That has not been, in my perception, my understanding of those characters at all. The authors had been consistent with fleshing out those characters and this depiction was so off course I had to force myself to try and ignore the narration. Plus the terrible depiction of how some of the characters of the supposed “made for TV” series cast overwhelmed me. Voices boomed so loudly in such awful accents I turned the volume down and then the narration was so ordinary and soft, I had to turn the volume up. If it had not been a Pendergast book I had been waiting for, I would have returned it within two chapters.

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not great narrative

Book was great. Did not enjoy the narrator. He didn't not seem to know the characters or their nuances.

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Bloodless

What a great entertaining story!! The narrator was very good. Anything written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is a great thriller.

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Love this series - but the sound……

I’ve noticed a similar theme here….lovers of this character group will be, once again, enthralled with how the story unravels and the pieces come together. As always second guessing Preston/Child’s weaving of the various lines of investigation into a final story always keeps me coming back.

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I am not happy with the narration and/or sound engineering. First the characters were misrepresented - I think - by the voices, accents, and nuances of inflections. I felt the narrator was trying out every imitation of various actors he knew, including Owen Wilson, Katherine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson to name a few. The accents and intonations given to the characters (as discussed in other reviews) were not right given the historical back ground and development of some of the characters. Adding on top of it the inconsistency in volume. When characters were “whispering” it was a whisper requiring a turn up of the volume and when characters were boisterous it was loud and too much.

I do much of my listening in my car on my commute - my guilty pleasure and I was constantly having to adjust the volume up and down. Not sure if that is the sound engineer not adjusting for the narrators boisterous delivery or possibly inexperience with audible book narrating itself. Either way I wanted to be through this book as soon as possible as I was not finding it as entertaining as in the past.

So while I love the book, the plot and the ability to see relationships continue to develop between various characters, it was distracting to have to adjust for the sound and to get around the narrators interpretation of the characters tone and delivery - maybe he should have listened to a few of the previous ones for continuity in his approach.

Overall a great book but as other reviewers have said you might want to get the actual book or PDF version of this to save your ears.

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