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  • Mercy

  • Detective Matt Deal Thrillers, Book 1
  • By: Stephen Bentley
  • Narrated by: Chris Defazio
  • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)
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Mercy

By: Stephen Bentley
Narrated by: Chris Defazio
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Summary

His daughter was taken. He’ll never get her back.

Set in the near future, Matt Deal is a British businessman married into a wealthy Florida family. Mercy, his 15-year-old daughter, is the glue in his rocky marriage to Lorey. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally sexually assaulted on a Destin beach, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state.

Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, mixed martial arts expert Deal concentrates in vain on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the men responsible for his daughter’s injuries may escape justice.

Deal is isolated and at his wit's end after his rich father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills.

Who can he turn to? Where can he go? What will he do? Who can he trust? Will he return to a post-Brexit Britain or will he, ultimately, seek revenge? 

Fans of Jack Reacher, Barry Eisler, and any vigilante justice novel will love this book.

Trigger warning: Adult content. The story contains a scene of sexual violence and some scenes of explicit consensual adult sex.

©2019 Stephen Bentley (P)2020 Stephen Bentley

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thriller

I enjoyed the narration of Chris Defazio

Matt Deal is seeking revenge for his daughter's rape and destruction. We open with a brutal assault upon Matt's teenage daughter that left her in a permanent vegetative state. The perpetrators are allowed to go free; Matt's ex- father-in-law conspire to make Matt change his life dramatically. It is suspenseful and fast paced, but that ending hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Pretty good

I have never listened to anything by this author and I will say they write some good stuff. This one however is let down a bit in my opinion by the narration. It’s not as good as what I have come to expect by some some of the other books I have listened to. Having said that it’s a very good thriller all in all. Recommended listen.

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Excellent Revenge Thriller

An excellent revenge thriller. Set in the near future, when Matt's daughter is viciously attacked he swears vengeance. The story shifts between an England ravaged with strife and crime and Florida. There is a quite a graphic start to the book and violence throughout, the story is very well written with great strong characters and a gritty style. The narrator is fine and is easy to listen too but all the voices are American even when in England.
I Received a Complimentary copy from Storyorigin and am leaving a honest voluntary review

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Enjoyable Listen!

What a great audiobook! I really like this genre and I found Mercy really enjoyable. Really well written and performed. I appreciated the reference to potential ramifications of certain real life political decisions. I will be starting on the next book in the series tomorrow and I very much look forward to it

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A Hot Action Packed Thriller.

This is a wild ride of a novel, not for the squeamish or narrow minded. Matt Deal must battle through personal tragedy to seek revenge on the people who raped and left his daughter, Mercy, in a vegetative state and yet they avoided justice. The action jumps countries keeping the readers adrenaline pumping through to the final chapter. A hot thriller.

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fantastic

This is a fantastic, thrilling, fast paced, very erotic in places audiobook. It is well written by Stephen Bentley and narrated by Chris Defazio.

I can't wait for more

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More like a teenagers dream

Acttion, silly sex scene, action, silly sex scene, More silly sex senes. This was Like a revenge porn book written by a 17-year-old sex starved kid. Plot was somewhat ok. I simply couldn’t bear the writing style. But, like a train wreck, I couldn’t stop looking . I will not be buying the next one.

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