
Countdown to Midnight
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Rob Shapiro
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Auteur(s):
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Dale Brown
À propos de cet audio
In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.
Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranking Iranian dissident in the Austrian Alps, Flynn is ambushed and nearly killed… just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project—one they have codenamed MIDNIGHT.
Flynn is determined to uncover MIDNIGHT’s lethal secrets. Why are Moscow and Tehran covertly retrofitting a massive oil tanker in an Iranian port? What purpose lies behind their closely guarded effort, the brainchild of Pavel Voronin—a ruthless billionaire allied with Russia’s autocratic president?
Flynn and his new team plan to put an end to the nefarious project, but they’re dogged at every step by Voronin’s hired Raven Syndicate killers—elite veterans of Russia’s special forces and intelligence services. As they track the enemy from the streets of Vienna to deep inside hostile Iran, Flynn and his crew must repeatedly risk their lives to pierce the layers of deception around this shadow war.
It’s a race against time to stop Voronin from launching his terrifying new weapon against the United States—potentially killing hundreds of millions and overturning the world’s balance of power forever. The odds are stacked high against Flynn and his team… but that’s never stopped Nick before.
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©2022 Dale Brown (P)2022 HarperCollins PublishersIn book two, Flynn has moved on to join a supranational spy agency and he's become a Bond-like figure and in doing so, he becomes something that's unbelievable. He's now a super spy and I'm sorry to report, the character didn't resonate with me.
I liked the Nick Flynn in the first story because he was just a regular guy trying to figure out a crazy situation he'd been thrust into. Now, he's flying into dangerous foreign countries covertly, he's wingsuit flying across large swaths of ocean, and he's stopping nuclear weapons from going off. It's all a bit too much for the character.
Regarding the plot, it was interesting but like the main character at too many points, it became unbelievable to the point where I had to stop listening.
Finally, the interactions and dynamics of Flynn with the secondary characters were cliché and at times wooden. And his love/sex interest in the story was just a bit too cringe.
As a positive, I'll say this. The action scenes were well done and overall the story had a good pace.
I'm very sorry to report that as spy thrillers go, this second effort by Mr. Brown is just a three star listen.
A flat follow up
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Tired narrative of American military hero
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Dreadful dialogue
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