John MacDonald has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 103 ratings. The most-rated is Debt of Honor.
Debt of Honor
Summary
Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world. Called out of retirement to serve as National Security Advisor to the president, Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, must prepare the untested president to meet the challenges of a new world order.
©1994 Tom Clancy (P)2010 Random House Audio
The Centaur
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Winner of the National Book Award and the Prix Du Meilleur Livre Étranger The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's 15-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author's remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron's agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is "a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son".
©2017 John Updike (P)2017 Random House Audio
Tobacco Road
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will one day descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. Caldwell's skillful use of dialect and his plain style make the book one of the best examples of literary naturalism in contemporary American fiction. The novel was adapted as a successful play in 1933.
©1932 Erskine Caldwell (P)1998 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Mongoose, R.I.P.
Summary
Blackford Oakes launches a wild attempt to kill Castro on behalf of the CIA. Ever since the botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro has run amok. He has executed thousands of his enemies, driven his countrymen to emigrate, and done everything possible to run Cuba into the ground - all in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the White House. At least, that's how the situation looks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where hatred of Castro has grown into an obsession. Under orders from John and Bobby Kennedy, the CIA will do anything necessary to kill Castro - no matter how ridiculous. Even-tempered CIA agent Blackford Oakes is dismayed at the agency's wild schemes, which include everything from poisoned wet suits to Mafia hit men. But the evil of Castro's regime is not a joke, and Oakes won't be laughing when he tries to knock the dictator off his throne.
©2015 William F. Buckley (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Chess for Beginners: The Ultimate Chess Guide for Beginners
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Play chess like a pro, even if you’ve never touched a strategy game before! Are you new to the game of chess? Maybe you are looking for a guide that would take your playing skills to the next level? Would you like to challenge and win even against more experienced opponents after just a few weeks of decent practice? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, please read on.... Do you know what separates a professional chess player from an amateur? Does a professional know better strategies? Does he have more experience? Is a master player mentally stronger? Well, all these are good, but there is one particular skill I’ll teach you, as you'll find in this book, that’ll help you play and win chess games like a professional. Think ahead of the time: The master player thinks five to 10 moves ahead; the amateur just thinks one to two moves ahead. You know, it’s like predicting the future. Once you know what is going to happen, you can get well-prepared for the outcome. And that works in chess, even if you don’t have any playing experience! In fact , sometimes having an empty mind to start with is even better! Now take a look at a few other things you’ll find inside this book: Chess fundamentals - the most important rules you must memorize if you want to get good fast (essential for complete beginners!) Six chess-playing tips that will help you knock-down even more experienced opponents How to secretly force your opponent to make mistakes - this psychological tactic is so powerful, your opponents won’t even understand how they start to lose to you Well begun half done? Some of the best opening strategies that’ll help you set up for a winning game The must-know secret to end the game with a victory every time - this strategy will take some time, but once you master it, even an experienced professional won’t resist your playing power!) Learn from master - complete chess-playing strategies from such stars as Bobby Fischer, Paul Charles Morphy, Garry Kasparov, and many others (this is a golden chapter if you want to take your skills to the master level!) Much, much more Once, again: You don’t have to have any chess experience to use this book and master the game. Just take it, hear it, and implement o the results will be hard to believe. Don’t wait, scroll up, buy now, and enjoy the game!
©2020, 2021 Justice Morales (P)2021 Justice Morales