Francis G. Kearney has narrated 53 audiobooks on Listento.it by 20 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 310 ratings. The most-rated is Total Power.
Five Years in Yemen
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A CIA contractor goes missing in Iraq. Five years later, he turns up in Yemen. Now, it’s up to Titus to find out if he’s a traitor or a patriot. After Titus accepts the assignment to bring Jacob Levin, a rogue CIA contractor, back to the States, he learns the operation has been put on hold pending presidential approval. That’s fine with him. He’s looking forward to spending time in Oklahoma with his fiancée, Nikki Saxon. But then, his boss needs a favor. After that, everything changes. It begins in Springfield, Missouri, where he interviews a former CIA employee about the missing Jacob Levin. It continues in Detroit, Michigan, where he and Nikki spend Thanksgiving with his relatives. It leads to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he encounters a killer. It ends in Somahi, Yemen, where he finally discovers the truth. Along the way, he’s forced to deal with issues about his personal life, confront questions about his past, and make decisions about his future. Can he trust God for the answers? Will Nikki agree with his decision? How will he handle the outcome?
©2018 Luana Ehrlich (P)2018 Luana Ehrlich
Off the Grid
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Perfect for fans of James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux. A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police chief detective Koa Kane to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul, left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it’s the second gruesome homicide of the day, and he soon discovers the murders are linked. These grisly crimes on Hawaii’s Big Island could rewrite history or cost chief detective Koa his career. The dead, a reclusive couple living off the grid, turn out to be mysterious fugitives. The CIA, the Chinese government, and the Defense Intelligence Agency attempt to thwart Koa’s investigation and obscure the victims’ true identities. Undeterred by mounting political pressure, Koa pursues the truth, only to find himself drawn into a web of international intrigue. While Koa investigates, the Big Island scrambles to prepare for the biggest and most explosive political rally in its history. Despite police resources stretched to the breaking point, Koa uncovers a government conspiracy so shocking, its exposure topples senior officials far beyond Hawaii’s shores.
©2019 Robert McCaw (P)2020 Robert McCaw
Stillman's Wrath
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Robbers and cold-blooded killers won't stop Stillman.... Sheriff Ben Stillman’s wife, Fay, and the Clantick town doctor, Clyde Evans, are riding the stage back to Clantick from Rocky Ford when the coach is hit by Dutch Wayne’s outlaw gang, including Dutch’s simple-minded son, Waylon. Waylon is badly injured during the robbery, so Dutch forces the doctor and Fay to ride with his gang as they head to their outlaw hideout in the Highwood Mountains. Back in Clantick, Ben Stillman gets word of the robbery via the telegraph, and rides off in hard pursuit. His task is made more difficult when rancher Phil Triber leads his own men after the outlaws. Dutch Wayne’s gang stole the coach’s strongbox carrying 50,000 dollars belonging to Triber, and Triber wants it back. Stillman demands Triber, and his men turn back. The sheriff is afraid that in their zealousness they’ll get the hostages killed. Stillman doesn’t give a damn about the money. He’s desperate to overtake the robbers and cold-blooded killers before they murder his wife and the doctor. He doesn’t realize just how badly Triber wants that money returned to him...nor what it is for.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2021 Wolfpack Publishing
Fire and Vengeance
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Having killed his father's nemesis and gotten away with it, Hilo, Hawai`i Chief Detective Koa Kane is not your ordinary cop. Estranged from his younger brother who has been convicted of multiple crimes, he is not from a typical law enforcement family. Yet, Koa's secret demons fuel his unwavering drive to pursue justice. Never has Koa's motivation been greater than when he learns that an elementary school was placed atop a volcanic vent, which has now exploded. The subsequent murders of the school's contractor and architect only add urgency to his search for the truth. As Koa's investigation heats up, his brother collapses in jail from a previously undiagnosed brain tumor. Using his connections, Koa devises a risky plan to win his brother's freedom. As Koa gradually unravels the obscure connections between multiple suspects, he uncovers a 40 year-old conspiracy. When he is about to apprehend the perpetrators, his investigation suddenly becomes entwined with his brother's future, forcing Koa to choose between justice for the victims and his brother's freedom.
©2020 Robert McCaw (P)2020 Robert McCaw
Steel Justice
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When the head of Army Black Ops is murdered by assassins, Steel and Christie hunt the killers, and become the hunted. The Jack Steel series is now in development for a major motion picture. From the snowy Virginia forests, to the frigid interior of Alaska, to a lush mountain on St. Croix Island, Steel and Christie will face off against a powerful mercenary organization that wants them dead. Someone is using murder to reshape the U.S. government. And that person has a score to settle with Steel. Steel wants to move forward with his relationship with Christie, but right now it will take everything he has just to stay alive. To save everyone that matters to him, Steel will have to start a small war. And when they take his daughter, he'll risk everything. Steel Justice is the third book in the high-octane Jack Steel thriller series. If you like action-packed scenes, formidable threats, and electric characters, then you'll love Geoffrey Saign's heart-stopping adventure. Listen to Steel Justice now to join a hero who trains for the impossible!
©2020 Geoffrey Saign (P)2020 Geoffrey Saign
Silencing Salter
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Chasing a killer can be a deadly job. Detective Luca investigates the death of a high-profile businessman, and it doesn't surprise him the man has enemies. Powerful people make powerful enemies, after all. But Luca isn't prepared for the sheer number of people the victim pissed off - nor just how influential they are. The deeper he digs, the uglier the truth grows. Luca uncovers a dark, disturbing side to the murdered man, and discovers hints of a deviancy along with membership in a secret society. Luca is treading on dangerous ground. Every clue he uncovers increases the size of the target on his back. Bringing a murderer to justice is what Luca does. He just hopes this time, he can live long enough to do it. Silencing Salter is Book 7 in the stand alone Luca Mystery Series. You'll love this riveting story packed with action, first person struggles, and an unpredictable ending. Start listening now.
©2019 Dan Petrosini (P)2021 Dan Petrosini
Once More With a Vengeance
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Love and death, bullets and blood.... Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead. Now Stillman has Johnny locked up in his jail at the courthouse. The judge wants to try the boy pronto and won’t recuse himself though under the circumstances Stillman knows he should. Meanwhile, a bank robbery in Clantick interrupts the wedding of Doctor Clyde Evans and Katherine Kemmett, giving the roguish doctor just enough time to reconsider his affection for not only bachelorhood but the pretty young waitress, Evelyn Vincent.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing
Once a Marshal
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From the current king of the violent, sexy, hard-hitting western. The Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series Begins.... Playing poker, smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey - retirement was treacherous business for ex-lawman Ben Stillman. The best of life seemed to be past, but then the past came looking for him.... The son of an old friend rides into Ben's life with a plea for justice and a mind for revenge. Up on the Hi-Line in Montana, a rich Englishman is rustling ranchers out of their livelihoods...and their lives. The boy suspects these rustlers have murdered his father, Milk River Bill Harmon, and the law is too crooked to get any straight answers. But can the worn-out old lawman live up to the legendary lawman the boy has grown to admire? For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos’s Tombstone, you’ll love this first novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2019 Wolfpack Publishing
Hell on Wheels
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Ben Stillman’s Wild Ride! When Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon and friends to a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, he aims to have a nice long weekend of rest and respite from law dogging. But Angus Whateley has other plans. The crazy ex-Confederate has just been released from prison, and he’s out to avenge the hanging of his cattle-rustling sons--hangings ordered by Bannon. Backed by a gang of the most violent and vicious members of his family, Whateley strikes when the judge takes the stagecoach back home. Soon, Stillman finds himself fighting a wheel-bound war against clan of zealous killers out for bloody revenge.... From the Current King of The Sexy, Hard-Driving Sheriff Ben Stillman Series!
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing
The Death Bringers: A Team Reaper Thriller
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To beat the cabal, they’ll have to fight together, or they’ll die together. The cabal has made its move with devastating efficiency. Bravo Team has been incarcerated for a UAV strike on an Ankara market; General Hank Jones has been framed for the murder of the president and is on the run with Scimitar and his men. Kane and his people have been abandoned in a Syrian war zone and have to find a way out before French mercenaries bury them amongst the rubble. All the while, the new president has been manipulated into sending troops to Ukraine to stop Russian aggression. It’s all downhill from there.
©2020 Brent Towns (P)2021 Wolfpack Publishing
Once Late with a .38
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FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE FAST-MOVING, HARD-HITTING, SEXY WESTERN ADVENTURE! The Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series continues.... Sheriff Ben Stillman has enough of a hard time keeping the peace in the town of Clantick without having to worry about the likes of Matt Parrish. Since his father died, Matt has been responsible for the Circle P Ranch in the Two-Bear Mountains - and his hotheaded streak has been responsible for a lot of trouble with other ranchers...including his future father-in-law, Tom Suthern. Despite failing health and loss of profits, Tom refused to sell his spread to Matt, even with Matt about to marry old Tom's daughter. So when Matt is discovered in the presence of Tom's bullet-riddled corpse, people naturally assume he murdered the old man. Now, it's up to Ben Stillman to protect Matt from a trigger-happy posse and find the real killer - before it's too late and a powder keg of violence explodes in Three-Witch Valley.... "Make room on your shelf of favorites; Peter Brandvold will be staking out a claim there.” (Spur award-winning author, Frank Roderus) For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos’s Tombstone, you’ll love this fourth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2019 Wolfpack Publishing
Cop or Killer?
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Breaking the law to protect your family seems reasonable...until it's not. Detective Luca’s life is shattered when he’s accused of a revenge killing. When a corpse turns up, it doesn’t look good for Luca. The body belongs to someone who harassed his precious Mary Ann, and the circumstances of death point a grisly finger at the detective himself. As suspicion spreads quickly that he has morphed into a killer, Luca finds himself in a difficult predicament. But Luca's problems don’t end there. While he scrambles to prove his innocence in the murder case, a mortal enemy breaks free and has the detective in his crosshairs. A vicious serial killer he once put behind bars, this psychopath is hell-bent on revenge. With the department closing in on one side and an escaped serial killer on the other, Luca is left on his own to clear his name and capture the culprit before he gets to him. Failure means the loss of his freedom - or his life.
©2019 Dan Petrosini (P)2020 Dan Petrosini
A Cold, Hard Case
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Half of the time, the killer gets away...and the case goes cold. Detective Luca knows there are hundreds, if not thousands of killers out there. When he receives a strange call about an unsolved murder, the evil that struck 25 years earlier resurfaces. A teenage girl brutally murdered. A younger brother who was with her that night. A devastated mother, unable to move on. Contemplating fatherhood himself, Luca commits to solving the horrific crime. He'll find the killer, offering the family a measure of closure. But there is a carousel of suspects, the original investigation was botched, and someone is trying to stop Luca. Someone who isn't afraid to kill again.
©2018 Dan Petrosini (P)2020 Dan Petrosini
Stillman's Gun
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From the current king of the wild and wooly best-selling Western series! Legendary Montana lawman Ben Stillman is transporting a prisoner, a former friend of his, back to the town where the man and his gang had robbed a bank to stand trial. Stillman’s also packing the stolen loot. Along the way he picks up a young White woman and her Indian boy who are on the run from a pack of bloodthirsty human wolves led by a prominent area rancher. The rancher wants revenge on the woman because she killed the man’s son in self-defense. Stillman finds himself on the run from not only the woman’s enemies but from his prisoner’s gang, as well. Turns out his prisoner double-crossed his partners, and now they want him and Stillman dead...and the money back in their hands. Stillman’s Gun is audiobook 13 in the fast-moving Western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman series.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2021 Wolfpack Publishing
Kill Count
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The guns blaze, the bodies stack, and the kill-count skyrockets. When a ruthless Colombian cartel kidnaps the 10-year-old son of a DEA agent for leverage, Team Reaper unleashes a blood-and-bullets blitz that uncovers an unholy alliance dirtier than the devil’s own heart. Hunted by both a rogue black ops assassin and a cartel cutthroat, Team Reaper take the fight from sin-soaked city streets to the jungle hell-zones of Colombia. Meanwhile, a devastating series of terrorist attacks strike New York City as al-Qaeda rises from the ashes and ignites a political firestorm that threatens to topple the president. With a young boy’s life on the line and the fate of a nation at stake, Team Reaper refuses to retreat. A non-stop action-fest - Kill Count is the fifth book in the thrilling Team Reaper Series.
©2019 Mark Allen (P)2019 Wolfpack Publishing
Once Upon a Dead Man
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A Murdered Lawman and A Frontier Town with a Deadly Secret.... Sheriff Ben Stillman knows that every lawman could face sudden death. But that doesn't ease his anger over Marshal Charlie Boomhauer's brutal murder. And ol’ Charlie's shoes have already been filled by his brash, young deputy - who isn't exactly out shaking the bushes to find Charlie's killer or killers. The new marshal is blaming the murder on a band of Gypsies who moved north - or was it south? It's becoming clear that the town of Lone Pine has something to hide - and that Stillman is outside his jurisdiction. But the lawman's code says that you take care of your own. Ben isn't going home until he's served up some justice - whether it's by the rules or not. Once Upon a Dead Man is the seventh novel in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing
Once a Renegade
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From the current king of the violent, sexy, hard-driving western! The sixth novel in the hard-boiled, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series. Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Shambeau, finally had enough of the white man's hatred. Whatever it was, Sheriff Ben Stillman now has a murder case on his hands - and, as the law dictates, he must hunt down and hang the outlaw. But nobody knows the land better than Shambeau. He could be anywhere. Then again...nobody can track a bloodthirsty killer like Sheriff Ben Stillman. And there's no hiding from his swift brand of justice. The deeper trouble for Stillman is - is this really justice? Does Shambeau really deserve to die, or was the old trapper just following the unwritten law of the old frontier? For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos’s Tombstone, you’ll love this sixth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing
Blood Rush
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A Race Around the World Team Reaper has captured Jorge Sanchez, the leader of the Chologos drug cartel. His daughter, Blanca, begins plotting to get her father out of US custody by taking hostages and planting a bomb at a school in New Jersey. Kane and his crew, having spent three months chasing Jorge Sanchez around the world, race to keep their reputation intact by stopping Blanca and destroying what’s left of the Chologos cartel. Book four of The Team Reaper series is straight from the headlines. Inspired not only by the El Chapo trial, but the many cases of cartel leader’s children taking over for their imprisoned parents.
©2019 Brian Drake (P)2019 Wolfpack Publishing
Lethal Tender: A Team Reaper Thriller
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John Kane might be on a mission, but he’s experiencing a crisis of confidence this time around... A jailed cartel leader buried a fortune - and it’s a kill or be killed race to find it! Caesario Crisfulli is a major player in the French-Italian Corridor, the biggest drug syndicate in Europe. Crisfulli needs the cash to fund a mercenary army for his plans to dethrone the syndicate leader and take over. He’s motivated not by greed, but by revenge... John Kane and Team Reaper have put the destruction of the French-Italian Corridor on the top of their priority list. If Crisfulli thinks he can simply dig up the money and control the flow of drugs through Europe, he has another thing coming. The 7th book in the adrenalin-pumping Team Reaper series is guaranteed to keep you glued to your seat!
©2019 Brian Drake (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing
Rattlesnake Convention
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A high-powered, action-packed western novella featuring Sheriff Ben Stillman... Ben Stillman is on his way back to his hometown of Clantick after chasing illegal whiskey peddlers. He’s eager to be back in his warm home with his wife and young child. But when he runs into a saloon owner who’s been robbed, his best doxie killed, the sheriff of Hill County finds himself on the trail of two young thieving killers, with a hard winter storm bearing down. The saloon owner himself, John Stock, rides along with Stillman. Stock isn’t much help. He’s a loudmouthed drunk, and he ends up getting his horse shot out from under him. Still, he and Stillman plod deep into the Missouri Breaks, on the trail of the two doxie-killing thieves. Their trail leads them to Perdition Bend - a notorious outlaw hideout. There, surrounded by wooly-eyed outlaws with itchy trigger fingers, Stillman feels like the lone jackrabbit at a rattlesnake convention.
©2019 Peter Brandvold (P)2020 Wolfpack Publishing