New York Times bestselling author Brian Haig delivers his a thriller inspired by a true story about one man running between two countries, trying desperately to escape his past.
In 1987, Alex Konevitch was thrown out of MoscowUniversity for "indulging his entrepreneurial spirit." But by 1991, he was worth $300 million. On track to become Russia's wealthiest man, he makes one critical mistake: he hires the former deputy director of the KGB to handle his corporate security. And then his world begins to fall apart. Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex and his wife escape to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country-facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.
The crude writing of this insufficiently plotted thriller is perfectly matched by the poor quality of the recording. As a little girl, Lucky's testimony sent her father to prison for murdering her mother. Twenty-one years later, he's been paroled and is seeking his daughter either to reconcile with her or to rape and kill her--he can't decide which. Meanwhile, Lucky is proving herself as brutal a murderer as her father. Reader Mark Deakins manages to acceptably voice the dialogue with appropriate pitch and accent changes; however, his narration is stiff, choppy, and unengaging. In addition, the audio has a pronounced tinny, echoing sound, as if it had been recorded at the bottom of a teakettle. A.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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