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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nLawrence Wright must have really polished up his crystal ball before writing this medical\/political thriller about a brutal pandemic. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, he has a knack for describing scientific complexities and capturing both the big political picture and the significant details. The hero of the book is Henry Parsons, an American physician from the Centers for Disease Control trying to control the uncontrollable as world leaders behave in all-too-familiar, self-serving, short-sighted ways. Near the end, the book strays into conventional thriller territory, but the rest is terrific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark Bramhall read the audio version, and I could hear Dr. Anthony Fauci every time he delivered Parsons\u2019s words. Read my full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Spy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Lauren Wilkinson\u2019s highly regarded debut novel, it\u2019s 1986 and Marie Mitchell is an FBI intelligence officer. As a young Black woman, she feels passed over, and her boss is hostile. She\u2019s approached by CIA operatives running a campaign to discredit Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, pro-Communist president of Burkina Faso, and Marie agrees to help. What Marie doesn\u2019t expect is to fall under Sankara\u2019s magnetic spell. Long after leaving Africa, the long tail of retribution is still chasing her, with deadly intent. Marie\u2019s strong relationships with her family give the book tremendous resonance. Narrated by Bahni Turpin, beautifully<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stranger Diaries<\/a><\/strong> Elly Griffiths\u2019 award-nominated story describes Clare Cassidy, a high school English teacher with an affinity for the long-dead gothic horror writer R.M. Holland and his most famous work, \u201cThe Stranger,\u201d a short story about a macabre murderer. When colleagues at the school where she teaches\u2014where Holland himself lived and worked\u2014start being murdered, there are mysterious links to Holland and every reason to think Clare may be next. Narrated by Esther Wane, Sarah Feathers, Anjana Vasan and Andrew Wincott, who reads \u201cThe Stranger,\u201d bit by bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are \u201cOK-I\u2019ll-take just-another-walk-around-the-block\u201d audiobook listens. Award-nominated stories, great narrations! Click on the titles for my Amazon affiliate links. Enthralled by every one of these! The End of October Lawrence Wright must have really polished up his crystal ball before … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/American-Spy-1.jpg?resize=342%2C351&ssl=1\")
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