Daniel F. Purcell has narrated 29 audiobooks on Listento.it by 14 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 107 ratings. The most-rated is The Drop.
The Berlin Tunnel - A Cold War Thriller
Summary
Books, movies, and popular media have eulogized the major role that British breaking of the Enigma Code played in the winning of World War II. During the Cold War, a more monumental effort was made by America and her allies to intercept and exploit Russian and communist countries' communications. In the mid-1950s a tunnel was built by British MI-6 and the CIA, which tapped into a buried communications cable in East Berlin. They successfully intercepted and exploited East European and Russian communist communications for over a year. Suddenly, in 1956, the tunnel was “discovered” by the Russians, denying the allies this exceptionally valuable intelligence source. This novel, The Berlin Tunnel, is a fictional account of how a second tunnel might have been built between East and West Berlin. It is a thriller which takes the listener into the super-secret world that the author occupied 50 years ago. Every scene in The Berlin Tunnel could have happened. The time - 1960-1961, and the place - the Divided City of Berlin, have been faithfully recreated using extensive research and the author’s personal experience. Young American Air Force Captain Robert Kerr arrives in a divided Berlin awash with spies who move freely between the East and West. His task - build a top-secret tunnel under the river Spree into East Berlin - tap into highly classified communications links between civilian and military leaders in Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries. The knowledge gained from this source will help America’s leaders to manage an imminent confrontation between the East and West over Berlin, perhaps even prevent World War III. At all cost, knowledge that the tunnel is being built must be hidden from the Russian KGB and the East German Stasi, as well as our closest allies - the British and French. Only those involved in its construction can be allowed to know of the existence of the tunnel. Love couldn’t have found him at a worse time. Soon after he arrives, Robert falls for a German girl, Anna Fischer. It is spy verses spy as the dreaded East German Secret Police the Stasi use every means possible to determine what Robert and his construction crew are doing in Berlin. But it is Anna who is often caught in the crossfire between the Americans and the Stasi. The conclusion of the novel centers around events that focus the attention of the world on Berlin. First, the Wall is closed, trapping 19 million East Germans including, Anna’s entire family, behind the Iron Curtain. A few months later, the world held its collective breath when the Berlin Crisis occured - High Noon at Checkpoint Charlie - the only time in the Cold War when Russian and American tanks faced each other. Robert and Anna are caught up in these momentous events as they try to free her family and survive in a very dangerous city.
©2018 Roger L. Liles (P)2019 Roger L. Liles
Skating on Thin Ice
Summary
Sam Walters has made a deal with the devil. In order to win a much-needed contract as physical therapist to one of the NHL's leading hockey teams, Sam must delay the recovery of their sniper Mac Wanowski. The trouble is, the more she gets to know the taciturn hockey player, the more she aches to help him. Mac "The Hammer" Wanowski chased the Stanley Cup dream for too many years. Last time he was close, it had cost him his wife. As injuries continue to plague the team, Mac works to catch a killer and keep the woman he's come to love from the hands of a madman. Hockey can be a dangerous sport, especially when millions of dollars are at stake.
©2019 Jacquie Biggar (P)2020 Jacquie Biggar
The Reckless
Summary
Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and John Sandford Bruno Johnson, a young and inexperienced LA County deputy sheriff, is trying to balance his life as the single father of a four-year-old daughter and his responsibilities as a cop in the Violent Crimes Unit. When he and his impetuous partner, Ned Kiefer, are put on loan to the FBI to help out with a "special problem", Bruno finds himself in a real bind. The FBI hands Bruno and Ned a case that the Bureau prefers not to touch - a group of teenage criminals that are being run by a nefarious criminal known as the Darkman. Bruno discovers the identity of the Darkman and is stunned to realize that he is the perpetrator from a lingering unsolved case - a triple homicide that continues to haunt Bruno. The problem is how to stop the juvenile criminals without killing kids and, at the same time, avoid being killed by the kids - or by the Darkman - and keep his reckless partner Ned under control.
©2019 David Putnam (P)2019 David Putnam
The Ruthless
Summary
Bruno Johnson, shaken to his core, is still a formidable force - he has an unrelenting focus on doing the right thing - and is unwilling to let anyone or anything stand in his way. Pushed to his emotional limit, Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Bruno Johnson struggles to hold his family together while immersed in his unrelenting career. His daughter, Olivia, is a teen mom to twin toddlers; her common-law husband, Derek Sams, is a thug; and one of their little boys has disappeared under his care. The overwhelming intensity demanded of Bruno on this personal level is compounded by the brutal shotgun murder of a superior court judge and his wife, both friends of his. Bruno cannot ignore these violent crimes even though he's supposedly off the law enforcement grid - undercover - working an illegal gun sting. Tragedy strikes Bruno's life on all fronts: family, friends, and professional - however, none of these colossal forces can match the unthinkable catastrophe that will forever dominate Bruno's life. Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Michael Connelly.
©2021 David Putnam (P)2021 David Putnam
Ragnarok
Summary
The war against the Guardians begins with a stunning victory on the lost world of Alkonost. The battle takes heavy toll on Spartan’s assault force and leaves him badly wounded and in an induced coma. By the time the battered but victorious fleet reaches the Hellstorm refugee fleet, news has already arrived of their victory against the undefeatable enemy. Inspired by multiple victories, as well as critical information recovered from Alkonost, these once scattered and defeated people are united. And together they begin their holy war that will wipe away every taint of the Guardians and restore their old empire. The war is a disaster, with dozens of ships lost, and thousands of humans, Byotai, and Trusskans missing in action in the first major engagement. Though not fully recovered from his brutal injuries, Spartan will not rest. He finds his depleted forces are ill-prepared for a rescue operation and are held back by the Trusskans who will not help, but Spartan will not give up. He has a surprise of his own, a ship that fuses Alliance engineering and Byotai weapons technology into a battlecruiser powerful enough to take on any that stand in his way. A warship built to end worlds. And he will fight against any that stand in his path to save his friends. Ragnarok is the second book in a brand new series in the style of Starship Troopers, Aliens, and Battlestar Galactica, and set in the best-selling Star Crusades universe. A unique story that will take the listener to new worlds, and ancient foes never seen before.
©2019 Michael G. Thomas (P)2020 Swordworks
The Heartless
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Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and John Sandford. Former LA County Deputy Bruno Johnson is now a bailiff in the courts, having stepped down from his role on the Violent Crimes team to spend more time with his daughter, Olivia. Bruno fears his job decision may have come too late, when he gets a frantic call to extricate Olivia from a gunpoint situation in a LA gang-infested neighborhood. His desperation escalates when he realizes Louis Barkow, a stone-cold killer awaiting trial, had orchestrated that deadly tableau. When Barkow and three other criminals break out of jail and hit the streets, Bruno is plunged back into violent crime mode. Now, the agenda is personal - Olivia has become a pawn in the desperate chase of this sinister murderer. The walls are caving in on Bruno as violence escalates in his hunt for Barkow. His heart strings are stretched to the breaking point as he struggles to protect his daughter, not only from the criminal violence swirling around them, but from Olivia's own impetuous life choices.
©2020 David Putnam (P)2020 David Putnam
Tidal Falls
Summary
If you like military romance, wounded warrior romance, contemporary romance, or romantic suspense, this is a sure to be a story you will love from USA Today best-selling author Jacquie Biggar. Nick Kelley spent years working as a dog handler in the US Marine Corps. His sole focus, to keep his team alive in the midst of chaos. When he fails to notice an IED in time and loses most of his teammates, Nick shuts down. It takes meeting and falling in love with a woman in danger to make him realize life’s worth living.
©2014 Jacquie Biggar (P)2018 Jacquie Biggar
Choke Points
Summary
China has a plan for the next 100 years, and they’re making moves around the world for complete domination politically and economically. When this situation suddenly becomes clear to Jake Adams in a very personal way, he and Sirena are forced to depart their sedate life on Pico Island in the Azores. Jake quickly discovers that his life could change forever, or suddenly end, if he allows the Chinese to seek total hegemony. He must gather his strength for a life-or-death battle to counter evil forces. But China will not go quietly without a fight. After all, they have found choke points around the world and covertly developed military bases to control vital shipping lanes from the Strait of Malacca to the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. Will the world finally wake up and avert the threat? Or will Jake and Sirena find themselves alone in this fight for supremacy?
©2019 Trevor Scott (P)2020 Trevor Scott (Scott F. Schmidt)
The Player
Summary
Sometimes, love happens when we least expect it... NHL defenseman Roy Donaldson lives for the game. When an ex-girlfriend/stalker causes trouble for the team, Roy gets benched. And the only way he can return to the rotation? Accept help from sassy, sexy PA Patience Kennedy. Patience is one step away from a junior partnership - all she needs to do is restore a sullen, annoying, attractive hockey player's image. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
©2020 Jacquie Biggar (P)2021 Jacquie Biggar