Mike Dawson has narrated 9 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 32 ratings. The most-rated is Ghost.
Ghost
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The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael R. McGowan is an outlier. Ten percent of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. And of those, less than 10 percent of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take listeners through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts to the Russian and Italian mobs to biker gangs and contract killers to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps, most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. Ghost is the ultimate insider's account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government, and a testament to the incredible work of the FBI.
©2018 St. Martin's Press (P)2018 DawsAngeles LLC
Left of Boom
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The explosive New York Times best seller! On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself to Afghanistan and into the center of the action. Through persistence and hard work, he was fast-tracked to a clandestine operations position overseas. Dropped into a remote region of Afghanistan, he received his baptism by fire. Frustrated by bureaucratic red tape, a widespread lack of knowledge of the local customs and culture, and an attitude of complacency that hindered his ability to combat the local Taliban, Doug confounded his peers by dressing like a native and mastering the local dialect, making contacts, and building sources within several deadly terrorist networks. His new approach resulted in unprecedented successes, including uncovering the largest IED network in the world, responsible for killing hundreds of US soldiers. Meanwhile, Doug had to keep up false pretenses with his family, girlfriend, and friends - nobody could know what he did for a living - and deal with the emotional turbulence of constantly living a lie. His double life was building to an explosive resolution, with repercussions that would have far reaching consequences.
©2016 Douglas Laux (P)2016 Douglas Laux
The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues
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“Paul is dead.” It was the late 1960's, the Beatles hadn’t toured since 1966, and some truly bizarre indications began appearing, pointing to the unthinkable: Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident and replaced by a look-alike. The Walrus Was Paul unearths every single clue from one of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring puzzles and takes you on a magical mystery tour of baffling, yet fascinating, hints for solving this mystery. This preeminent treatise by R. Gary Patterson (Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock n Roll Myths, Legends and Curses/Hellhounds on Their Trail) is seamlessly brought to life by the full-toned resonance of Mike Dawson's narration. Join the Beatles on this magical mystery tour!
©1998 Fireside Books (P)2020 Mike Dawson
The Pact: Book 1
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The Pact is the second book by former Green Beret-turned-author Robert Patrick Lewis, and his first foray into the world of fiction. The Pact is the first of a three-book series, a fictional story based on current events, the authors experience in Special Forces and first-hand knowledge of geopolitics and global intelligence. The Pact combines global politics, combat, economics, conspiracy theories, and Special Forces history into one nail-biting fiction work; think Dan Brown meets Tom Clancy meets Red Dawn. Already hailed as "so realistic and plausible that it's terrifying," "an on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller that will have you looking in your rearview mirror for enemy troops," and "the next great franchise in the world of military fiction, The Pact is going to change the way Americans look at their government and safety for the rest of their lives.
©2014 3 Pillars Enterprises (P)2014 3 Pillars Enterprises
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
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Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the fell clutch of circumstance.
Beginning with the fateful place where it all started - a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil - through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation. Inside you'll find:
Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin Curse.
Chilling quirks of fate surrounding the deaths of musicians in the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A provocative look at "The Club", membership in which requires an untimely death at age 27 and whose inductees include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin.
Cryptic messages in song lyrics that have proved eerily prophetic.
Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the listener on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history. Narrated by Mike Dawson (Left of Boom, Mistrial, The Adam Carolla Show)
©2004 R. Gary Patterson (P)2017 R. Gary Patterson
Truck Stop Jesus
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2017 Selah Awards Nominee
Oh, for a simpler time! Paradise Jones dreams of the Hollywood glamour days. Clothes, hair, vintage car - you name it, she's got it. She's classic retro, a 21st-century image of her favorite golden era stars - Doris, Audrey, Esther, Marilyn. The entertainment rags call Paradise eccentric. The studios rarely call at all. When an altercation with her leering stepfather forces her to flee Los Angeles, Paradise leaves behind everything she loves and longs for.
A few hundred miles east, Doc Morales' years of hard work in the minors of Major League Baseball have produced exactly one at bat in the Big Show. A collision at first, a blown knee, and adios dreams. Nothing left to live for but pickup games and his collection of old movies. Nothing, that is, until beautiful, damaged Paradise Jones crashes into his small, Arizona town. So begins an epic road trip that will change everything.
Throw in a couple of oddball bounty hunters, a forgotten movie-star boat captain, a cowboy priest, and a dashboard Jesus that is more than meets the eye, and Paradise and Doc have all the ingredients they need to cook up a fun and quirky slice of Americana pie.
General Content (G) (I): Contains little or no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language. May contain some content of an inspirational/religious nature.
©2016 Heritage Beacon Fiction (P)2018 Heritage Beacon Fiction
The Light
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What happens with the hard line between life and death blurs? When Joseph of Arimathea took Yeshua's corpse off the cross and placed it in his own tomb, he risked everything he'd worked years for. But now, Yeshua's body is gone, and Joseph is running for his life. Sister has never known anything but the lower city slums. She's a creature of the night, so base and inconsequential she's never even warranted a name. Welcome to first-century Jerusalem, where rumor and deceit rule the day. Step into the light and walk the ancient city side-by-side with the very first believers. Feel what they felt. Risk what they risked. And find, with them, the unshakeable truth indelibly written across the heavens before time began - Yeshua changes everything. And everything is never what you expect.
©2020 Buck Storm (P)2020 James Buckley Storm
Greenwich Killing Time
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Kinky Friedman's Greenwich Killing Time Narrated by Mike Dawson Foreword Narrated by Kinky Friedman When Daily News reporter Mike McGovern finds himself targeted as the suspect in the killing of the dead man McGovern discovered in his own apartment, he calls on Kinky, a street-smart country singer to help him beat the rap.
©1986 Kinky Friedman (P)2021 Kinky Friedman
The Pact Book II: Battle Hymn of the Republic
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The Pact Book II follows Rob and the men of ODA 022 from their battles against the invaders (China, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah) in Colorado to joining the resistance to take back the nation.
The men come into contact with other freedom fighters and are taken to the front lines of WWIII.
As they spread out to take part in the national battle plan, the team is hunted by Dmitri, a former Spetsnaz-turned SVR operative. His job is to capture the men and inflict as much pain as possible, as Rob learns when he lands in Dmitri’s grisly interrogation.
The Masonic connection to the resistance is further explained, as well as a hidden part of Rob’s past that is brought to light with a unique twist. The team encounters things they cannot explain, and are helped by someone from their past who was given unique talents through his time in a classified CIA Special Projects assignment.
Rob also meets Natalie, a woman with special abilities of her own to whom he finds himself magnetically drawn.
Some of the fiercest warriors from the team are lost or sacrifice themselves on missions in Book II, and the men are given the option of enacting retribution against those invaders who attempted to destroy their nation.
©2019 3 PIllars Enterprises, Inc (P)2019 3 Pillars Enterprises, Inc