Richard Powell has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is A Rescue in Time.
A Rescue in Time
Summary
Dissatisfied with his career as the first mate on a river tugboat, all Gill Jarvis wants is a new and exciting career. As they say, be careful what you wish for. Out of a mysterious fog on the Mississippi, a band of pirates appears. The pirates, led by Jean and Pierre Lafitte, transported to the 21st century by a voodoo spell, seize his ship, and his adventure begins. After discovering they moved forward in time, the pirates offer Gill the chance to join their crew. His job? Guide them through the maze of the current century until they discover the time-travel secret, allowing them to return to the 19th century where they belong. As they hide out in 21st-century Memphis, the situation becomes desperate. Jean discovers his wife, left behind in the 19th century, requires a modern medical procedure to save her and her unborn child. Frantic, they work to discover the time-travel secret. They enlist the help of scientists, voodoo practitioners, and a talking crow. But once the secret is unlocked, they still must make the journey both through time and across the Caribbean to the pirates’ home port on Galveston Island. New Orleans street hustlers and slave catchers throw obstacles in their path, while US Navy pirate hunters strive to bring the crew to justice. Does Gill regret his career change? Come along and see for yourself. Join this rag-tag gang as they race to achieve a Rescue in time.
©2019 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Little Lucifer
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The hunt for a serial killer exposes massive government corruption! A brutal murder occurs in Memphis, near Franklin City’s limits. But all is quiet in the city itself as Franklin City celebrates Independence Day, until among the festival crowd, Wendy claims she sees a man Bill Doolin’s compatriots put behind bars. A check of prison rosters shows the man remains in prison. Then, two young women are murdered in town. A composite done by a witness resembles the man jailed a year ago. And now, the hunt is on. As the Memphis police pursue their killer and Bill’s compatriots hunt for Franklin City’s killer, the two cases collide, exposing corruption both within the city and on a global scale.
©2018 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Harvesting the Angels
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A child’s kidnapping in Hong Kong exposes a world more terrifying than you can imagine! Based on true events! Hong Kong police detective William Lau’s daughter falls into the hands of child launders. These "baby brokers" forge a new identity for the stolen child, enabling them to ship the children around the world. They then sell them to wealthy families unable to legally adopt. Those not adopted are passed on to slave labor or organ donation. Desperate to find his child, Lau’s pursuit leads him to Memphis, Tennessee. Meanwhile in franklin city, a quiet Memphis suburb, Bill Doolin is called back from retirement to investigate a high-profile cold case. Lau’s colleague's murder in franklin city brings the two hunters together. They join forces to find Lau’s daughter before her kidnappers take her beyond reach. While searching both Bill and Lau uncover dark secrets about themselves that adds more urgency to their hunt and promises to change their lives forever. Will they find the child in time? Will the two hunters be able to reconcile their lives with what each discovered? Come along and find out!
©2018 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Journey to Destiny
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A rowsing romantic adventure! If you loved the movie Pearl Harbor, this audiobook is for you. In early 1941 a brutal Japanese invasion sweeps through China. America has yet to enter the Second World War but aids the embattled Chinese. Four young Americans, three men and a woman, all for their own personal reasons travel to China to join the effort. The men join the Flying Tigers. The young woman comes to work in her father’s mission hospital regularly targeted by Japanese bombers. Laugh, cry and grit your teeth, as you follow their journey to the conflict that defined a generation.
©2020 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Pact with the Devil
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Ever wondered how the Cold War started? In the Second World War’s last days, Captain James Ross commands a rifle company, while Justine Rothstein leads a band of partisans hunting Nazis. They join forces to liberate a Nazi death camp in Austria. Once they succeed, each go their separate ways. With the Second World War drawing to a close, a second conflict between superpowers emerges. With millions displaced and homeless, dirty deals and deceit run rampant as the Americans and Russians jockey for advantage in this chaos. In this climate, Justine and Ross meet again at the Nuremberg war crimes commission. Justine searches desperately for her family deported by the Nazis and Ross investigates the Holocaust’s perpetrators. Together, they uncover a plot to supply a Nazi superweapon to the Russians - a bomber that can deliver a nuclear weapon from space. The powerful plotters shove aside or murder anyone who gets in their way. Despite this peril, Justine and Ross strive to expose this conspiracy. Will they succeed?
©2020 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Old Age and Treachery
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Millions of honest, hardworking Americans invest in pension funds hoping to survive comfortably in retirement. Dishonest managers swoop down like vampires and suck these funds dry. They use this money to support their own lavish lifestyles or salt it away in hidden accounts to use at their leisure leaving their clients destitute. If caught, these criminals serve minimum sentences in country club prisons and, on release, live in luxury on their ill-gotten gains. A cyber vigilante the FBI calls "Rolly" turns this upside down. Rolly removes evidence of the theft and restores the victims' losses. Then, he plants evidence showing the thieves committed more serious crimes, leading to stiff sentences in maximum security prisons. But Rolly’s work derails the FBI's white collar crime investigations and makes them look inept. Enraged, Robert Johnson, the division’s director, mounts an unauthorized hunt for Rolly. Bill Doolin, pressed into helping a friend scammed on the internet, finds himself square in Johnson's sights. Convinced that Bill is his nemesis or an accomplice, Johnson turns Bill’s life inside out. Desperate to clear himself, Bill must use his skills as both a detective and former covert operator to mount his own hunt for Rolly. Disgraced and humiliated, a deposed drug lord bent on revenge also arrives in Franklin City seeking the woman who caused his downfall. These forces unite, unleashing a perfect storm of murder and mayhem in this quiet Memphis suburb.
©2018 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
To So Few
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In the dark opening days of the Second World War, Japan marches unhindered through China and Southeast Asia. They decimate the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Grind the Philippines and the remaining American territories in the South Pacific beneath their bootheels. Not even the North American continent is immune as the Japanese conquer Alaskan Islands. Four young Americans, three men and a woman, travel to China to assist the embattled Chinese. The woman works in her father’s mission hospital bombed relentlessly by the Japanese, while the men join the American Volunteer group. These men, flying in support of the Chinese, become the only threat to the brutal conqueror’s ambitions. For a shining moment, this band of young people, who become known as the Flying Tigers, stands alone, thwarting the death that rains down on Rangoon. While struggling against these impossible odds, personal challenges threaten to tear these young people’s lives apart. Can they prevail where others have failed? While Americans cheer their efforts, Winston Churchill compares them to the brave airmen who defended the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain. Of those, he said: "Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few!"
©2020 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell
Murder Club
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“For us, murder is a hobby,” the writer’s group president informs the detectives as they arrive. “We look forward to seeing real police procedure.” A prominent author dies at a mystery writers retreat. Is it natural causes or was she murdered? The detectives have never worked together before. Each has their own motivations as they approach the case. Recently promoted to investigations, Deputy Sheriff Christine Urich is eager to succeed. Show she is not just a pretty face promoted to make the Department look fair. The lead Detective, Robert Jordan, struggles with demons of his own. His career circles the drain after being hounded out of Memphis Homicide. Landing in this rural county, Jordan seems content to finish his career making as few waves as possible. As they struggle to build a working relationship, they discover that all those attending had strong motives to kill the victim. Are the writers interested in watching the police at work or is one or more of them killers covering their trail while pretending to cooperate? Can the detectives put their differences aside and bring the killer to justice?
©2017 Richard Powell (P)2020 Richard Powell