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  • Books 1 - 4
  • Written by: Nick Pirog
  • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
  • Length: 34 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (70 ratings)

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Written by: Nick Pirog
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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Publisher's Summary

A complete crime fiction box set! Homicide detective Thomas Prescott may be retired—but a serial killer, a high-profile murder, an ill-fated cruise, and a chilling small-town crime add more than enough excitement to his hard-earned rest.

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Unforeseen (Book 1)

Retired homicide detective Thomas Prescott is reluctant to read the best-selling book Eight in October, a true-crime thriller based on a string of murders that he solved. The killer, Tristen Grayer, is allegedly dead, but only Prescott knows that Grayer is alive and lurking in the shadows. On the anniversary of the first murder, Grayer resurfaces, killing a women close to Prescott. With the help of the medical examiner and the book's author, Prescott must try stop Tristen from completing his encore.

Gray Matter (Book 2)

His love life in shambles, Thomas Prescott returns to Seattle. Just settling in, he sights the corpse of a woman floating in a cove. It's not just any woman - it is the governor of Washington. As Prescott is thrown into the middle of the biggest murder investigation in Washington state history, he is forced to confront the demons from his past while he unearths a new enemy.

The Afrikaans (Book 3)

Prescott is on a luxury cruise liner when the ship is taken over by African pirates who are demanding US medical relief for a village in South Africa. Prescott must protect the 400 hostages while racing against the clock to discover the truth behind the suspicious ransom request.

Show Me (Book 4)

Retired detective Thomas Prescott has inherited a farm in Missouri and is getting used to small-town living when he hears about a horrific crime in the town's past: a murder-suicide committed by a grocery-store employee who was fired. The crime is considered solved, but Prescott has his doubts.

©2018 Nick Pirog (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Unrelenting Sarcasm.. *sigh*

Colorado-native Author Nick Pirog pens respectable action-heavy Crime Thrillers - paced nicely, populated with interesting characters, made vivid with occasionally gory descriptions, and full of plausible twists & turns. His protagonist - young but "retired" (independently wealthy) FBI-associated detective 'Thomas Prescott' - is intuitive, ethical, and dedicated to solving crime.. but jaded, perpetually contrarian, and brilliantly sarcastic. He's a fascinating character.

Unfortunately, Pirog takes the sardonic humor and razor wit in Prescott's inner dialogue to an extreme. By about ¼ of the way into Book Two of the four in this collection, it got very old.. Thomas Prescott is entertainingly witty (the "sick burns" are hilarious), but - when all is said and done - not centered in reality. The mysteries are great, but it got harder and harder to cheer for this incongruous shockingly nonserious sleuth. I wish Pirog had been able to tone the tongue-in-cheek down just a little bit.

More fortuitously, Blackstone Audio Inc almost save the books with brilliant reader casting: Johnny Heller reads a bit too quickly (slowing playback speed to 0.90X yielded the optimal experience) - and some of his accents are legitimately cringeworthy - but he delivers spot-on diction, cadence, and timbre.. and the *perfect* deadpan tone for the text. This audiobook features some of the best-suited narration that I have heard in a long time.

With the exception of Book Three ('The Afrikaans' is a woefully bad attempt at an International Terrorism Technothriller), the stories in this series of books would be more than serviceable if the incessantly-comedic tone was better balanced.
As it stands, I rate the collection 5 stars out of 10. I recommend that listeners take breaks between entries - avoid listening to all four books in a row unless you're comfortable with losing "professional respect" for the main character.

NOTE: The fact that I got the audiobook as a 'Plus' selection doubtless improves my impression of the compendium, too (it's likely not even as good as I imply - but it's a reasonable investment of time if you can get it for free)..
Regardless, paying a Credit for this distinctly "average" recording would be hard to defend.

[FYI: If you cut off your own ears with a machete, you can still hear.. it doesn't protect you from "sonic attacks"
..and virtually any non-American citizen on the planet can tell you that 55 km/hr on a Highway is comically slow - not frighteningly breakneck no matter *how* rough the going]

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Fantastic stories

Having only just discovered this author I have to say I’m hooked! I love when a book makes you not want to stop for any reason until you absolutely have to or you’ve come to the end. Imagine how that feels when you have a four book deal, yep no sleep for me :))
If you’ve read his books before lucky you and if not my guess is you’ll be hooked as well. Good luck and happy listening ! And many thanks to Nick Pitog for taking me away for all those wonderful hours.

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4 very original awesome stories.

All 4 of these stories touch on a real issue. Though they are written in a very witty and fun way, there is a theme underneath that I found educational. A+

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Cringey macho cosplay

I gave it a good college try, but this is the cringiest protagonist. Think of the most insecure guy in middle school and now imagine him as the star of this book. Also, as my second Nick Pirog book, what is with the author always nonchalantly throwing in mentions of incest? He did it at the beginning of dead on arrival too. Anyway, I couldn’t make it through even though it was free. DNF

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Amazing

These 4 books here amazing. Worth it 100%. I the twists and turns really keep you on your feet.

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Enjoyed the series

Narrator is great. The books just get better and better. I’m very happy I listened to all of them!

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Nick has great style!

Best series I’ve had the pleasure of listening to in some time.
Everything a good story needs to take you into the creation.
Johnny’s narration brings the characters to life.

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I take it, the authors demographic is male

Only part way through the 1st book. Story is good as is the reading. can do without the 50's detective/prepubescent titty, ass,boobies comments. Not to mention his male sterio type understanding of women. I've listened or read hundreds of books in the crime genre. can't remember in any the authors need to reference a female colleagues holding a tampon because she was bitchy and on her period. As stated
only part way through book 1. Hopefully he grows up before the book is done. Will say aside from that do enjoy the sense of humor.

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A fantastic series!

I had to concentrate to get into the first book, but I stuck with it and was hooked. Highly recommend! I was disappointed when the series ended.

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Would not recommend.

Couldn’t finish this, and I finish all books even if I don’t like them! The story wasn’t captivating, I’m stopping 12hrs+ in and I actually don’t care what happens. The author wrote this in an extremely blunt and at time offensive way. Performance is in line with the writing, just emotionless and flippant, I would not recommend.

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