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First Strike
- A Brady Hawk Novel, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dwight Kuhlman
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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With ruthless terrorist cells multiplying by the day, the head of the snake must be cut off - and Brady Hawk swings a sharp ax.
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- Midwestbonsai
- 21-08-17
a generally entertaining assassin novel
Brady Hawk is an ex-navy seal now serving as a black ops assassin in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is tasked to take down terrorists quietly, making it look like they were killed accidentally, in hopes of not creating more sympathizers or more terrorists. The project is led by Senator Blunt, who will do anything to protect his power and pet project, including blackmail and murder.
When Hawk gets captured, he discovers a plot to bomb an American base. If he can’t escape, kill the bomb maker or warn the US, hundreds will die. With the help of his handler, Alex, the beautiful ex-C.I.A. operative, he is able to infiltrate deeper into the terrorist network. Now it is a race for time to foil the plot and stay alive doing it.
There is a fair amount of action, Hawk gets in tight jams, but always escapes with his extraordinary skills and an enormous amount of blind luck. Unfortunately, the escapes seem forced and way too easy. The terrorists are easily fooled and bungle their captures. For example, Hawk fakes an epileptic seizure to get taken to the infirmary, too bad they don’t think to tie him up or post a guard. Really?
It is an entertaining listen, but doesn’t bring too much originality to a very full genre of military/Muslim extremist/terrorist novels. The characters aren’t that interesting and tend to get pulled by the plot rather than the other way around. An easy light read if you enjoy this genre and don’t mind some less than believable escapes.
The story is performed by Dwight Kulman who does a good job. He has a pleasant voice. The characters are easily discernible and the voices are pretty good. His Middle Eastern accents could use a little work but aren’t distracting. There are production problems at the last third of the novel as chapters are repeated. An easy fix for the producer, but extremely distracting for the listener as he has to fast-forward to the next chapter to continue the novel.
First Strike is a generally entertaining assassin novel with little to make it standout in a crowded field.
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- naiveblueeyes08
- 19-09-16
It was a very slow go.
The author provided me with a complimentary copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. This was a very slow book and frankly if I'd been reading it on my PC or Kindle I'd probably have given up on it before I'd gotten to 30%. It finally got better around 50 or 60%. I don't know if it was just my copy of the audiobook or not but from Chapter 39 to the end of the book each chapter was duplicated. It was really annoying having to listen to the first few seconds of each chapter to confirm it was in fact the same and then scroll to the end of the chapter. If it's the actual recording that is messed up I hope they fix it.
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- JH & DDDH
- 05-08-21
First Strike into a Good New Series
Brady Hawk and his D.C.-based handler Alex Duncan, are Way Off the books working directly for a Senator in his special project to shut down terrorism, without rules. As other US Government agencies work against them, along with the Terrorists, the pair have to go above and beyond. Brady Hawk is a good new addition to Jack Reacher, et al, of the world.
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- Susan Patterson
- 28-06-21
Twists and turns!
If this is how the government truly operates, it's scary!
Dwight Kuhlman does a good job narrating.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Cheryl
- 18-05-21
war and politics
I received a free code for this book.
enjoyed the story, and the human element of the main character. looking forward to the next book.
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- Colleen S.
- 29-01-20
Way too political
If you believe the junk in the news - this is way too... this book stinks.
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- Donna
- 07-04-17
Chapters repeated close to end
Good book. But please fix the chapters. They repeat close to the end. Otherwise good book
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- Philip Hyatt
- 06-10-16
Not very good with playback issues
I made it through the book but it wasn't great. I've already purchased the second story so I guess I'll give it a chance to see if its any better. Just not a very deep story and you don't really get connected to any of the characters. I was disappointed.
I also had issues with the playback (as someone else mentioned) as it kept repeating chapters and the announced chapter did not match the displayed chapter. weird. Just added to the poor experience