John Podulka has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors. The most-rated is Tomato Can Comeback.
A-21
Summary
Chief Brian Kelly's career as a U.S. Navy S.E.A.L came to a halt, when he lost his right knee saving a rich kid Marine's head, during Desert Storm. He medically retired with his pension and a dream. He had always planned to open a Security Consulting firm. His dream would be made easier when the young Marines wealthy grandfather dies. The old man had felt the need to reward Brian for his heroic deed. The reward comes in the form of a long abandoned government research facility and a lot of cash. With the help of some old friends, and a few new ones, Brian finds himself quickly making his dream a reality. From the first day at the Englewood Foundation building, they notice things are not exactly normal. The most noticeably unusual things are the freshly mowed grass, the absence of dust and the appearance that everyone had just left. The most interesting, is the fifty-year-old phone that still works. Strange things begin to happen soon after they get set up. Furniture gets move back to it's original position. The things they bring in get mysteriously moved to the center of the receiving area, or disappear altogether. There are, of course, the phone calls to a phone that isn't connected to anything. The strange happenings lead Brian to begin looking into the Englewood Foundations past. They discover a trap door leading to a hole filled with cages, the kind used to hold people. This hole also seems to hold all of the missing dust. A search of the files reveals that the foundation was doing some terrible things.
©2001, 2013 Tim Hancock (P)2014 Tim Hancock
Blood, Sweat, and Fears
Summary
Visit a world where a wild-land firefighter must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno. Follow an eco-tourist's frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. Meet a gumshoe journalist as she tracks down a figure that'sable to predict the future with terrifying accuracy. And tune into Texas station KRAP (don't touch that dial, there's KRAP on it!) as a pair of down-home country deejays try their damnedest to stop a murder...while they're still on the air. The 18 Short Stories Included in this Audiobook include: "A Talent for Fire" "The Pusher's List" "The Most Wanted Woman" "Blood Heist" "My First Date with Jolene and her Cousin, Billy-Bob" "A Road Painted in Scarlet" "Never Mind the Princess, Save the Dragon" "Quarantine on the Black Nile" "Which Way to the Dragon" "Three Scars" "A Most Helpful Text" "Cantaloupes and Wild Shoshone" "Slumgullion Sector" "I Got Some Bad Muse For You" "Shadow on the Sea" "Sharpest Tool in the Shed" "An Assassin in the Vatican" "Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam"
©2012 Michael Angel and J.D. Cutler (P)2012 Banty Hen Publishing
Time Heals Everything
Summary
Beautiful Katherine Collins, a young woman from nowhere, suddenly had it all. Her promising career as an up-and-coming cabaret singer in a swinging 1930s hot spot known as Simply Blues lands her smack in the middle of a tug of war the likes of which she'd never dreamed possible. On one side stands the man who had opened the door to her career but who refuses to allow himself any further claim to her heart, and on the other stands a man who will do anything to claim Katherine as his own. Set in the tumultuous times leading up to World War Two, both men will shape her destiny in unchangeable ways, but whose heart will Katherine choose, and whose will she break forever?
©2011 Linda Swain (P)2012 Linda Swain
Forces of Nature
Summary
What will happen when a fully-fueled bomber from the Air Force base just outside a large Texas city and piloted by a woman named Rory is flung by a fierce tornado into the country's largest, busiest shopping mall? Begin the day with the mall manager, his assistant, the chief security officer, and Howard the Weatherman - whose predictions are always uncannily accurate, and in this case - deadly.
©2008 Marilyn Celeste Morris (P)2013 Marilyn Celeste Morris
Tomato Can Comeback
Summary
Tom Garrick had a heart of gold, a jaw of iron, and heavy artillery in both fists. This orphan from the Windy City returned from the Korean War, determined to battle his way up the welterweight ranks, inspiring speculation about a title bid. Then he slugged it out with a top contender, who humiliated him over eleven rounds, cutting short his victory march. Popular opinion was that he had been exposed as a lucky pretender. The newspapers dubbed him 'Tomato Can' after watching the blood splatter around the ring like tomato juice from a tin can being battered by a tire iron. Now, for some mysterious reason, 'Tomato Can' Garrick is lacing up his gloves again, hoping for a shot at redemption. He has no promoter, no manager, and not even a sparring partner. The only one in his corner is a buddy from the war, who has never been inside a boxing ring before. There's a punch-drunk pantheon of bums, brawlers, and cutthroat contenders just waiting to pound him into Palookaville...a lonely war widow with her claws in his heart...and a regimen of dubious training methods which may do more harm than good to his chances at success. But Garrick isn't going to go down in history as "the Tomato Can" - at least, not without a fight.
©2012 Henry Brown (P)2013 Virtual Pulp, Inc.