Tom Taverna has narrated 22 audiobooks on Listento.it by 18 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is Thinking: Like a Spy.
Thinking: Like a Spy
Summary
Imagine how different your life would be if you could effortlessly think like a spy to get the most out of every situation. James Daugherty is an intelligence expert & former CIA spy who specializes in all forms of human behavior. Thinking: Like a Spy is designed to help you with every element of human interaction. It is a combination of the following three books stacked one on top of the other. Persuasion: An Ex-SPY's Guide to Master the Art of Mind Control Through Powerful Persuasion Techniques & Conversational Tactics for Ultimate Influence in Any Situation What Aristotle can teach you about persuasion Spy tactics for high-pressure/stakes situations Conversational strategies & personality traits to win over even the toughest adversary Dealing with insults/arguments like a Professional Negotiation: An Ex-SPY's Guide to Master the Psychological Tricks & Talking Tools to Become an Expert Negotiator in Any Situation Identify the three negotiator personality profiles (and which one you are) Build the verbal and nonverbal rapport critical for productive talks The clever psychological buyer/seller negotiation tricks (for the car, house, & yourself) What an arms dealer can teach you about an auction-style negotiation Use the "I agree" principle for handling objections Body Language: An Ex-SPY's Guide to Master the Art of Nonverbal Communication to Know What People Are Really Thinking in Any Situation Understand the biochemistry behind body language Implement reading strategies and behavioral tactics for the real world Know what crossing and pointing of the arms/hands are really telling you Facial features that hold most weight (hint: eyes & mouth) Deception detectors in general
©2017 James Daugherty (P)2017 James Daugherty
Self-Discipline
Summary
Imagine how different your life would be if you knew a way to hack your daily habits to become a highly self-disciplined and productive person. You will never quite know how many opportunities you have missed by lacking the self-discipline to truly follow through on your convictions. Whether it's attaining a new body, better job, or simply being more productive in life. All too often people fall short as they aren't equipped with the right mental make-up and mind tricks to actually achieve it. Not anymore. James Daugherty is an intelligence expert and former CIA spy who specializes in all forms of human behavior. But there's one trait which is critical to winning, self-discipline. A spy would be worthless without it. However he never realized quite how much his ability to cultivate a self-disciplined mindset whilst working in the field as an American spy would help everyday people in civilian life. Imagine if you could arrange your habits and behaviors in a way to achieve seamless success in whatever you are doing. In this insightful and functional book, Daugherty gives listeners a firsthand look into the trials and tribulations he dealt with in the field as a CIA operative and no-nonsense guide revealing how to: Understand the basic cognitive principles on how the brain actually works The nature of a "habit loop" Why it's critical to identify bad habits and replace them with better ones Tactics to help you naturally cultivate a self-disciplined mindset Strategies to help with delaying gratification and preventing procrastination Day-to-Day habits of a spy to develop extreme productivity Implementing "Habit Pyramiding" for exponential progress CIA fitness training principles for fast results And much more.
©2017 James Daugherty (P)2017 James Daugherty
Body Language: An Ex-Spy's Guide to Master the Art of Nonverbal Communication to Know What People Are Really Thinking in Any Situation
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Imagine how different your life would be if you could really know what other people were thinking in any situation. Unless you hone into the non-verbal gestures people are giving off, you will never quite know exactly what they are thinking - whether it's reading your colleagues in the office, your spouse or kids at the dinner table, or even a complete stranger on the street. All too often, people fall short of really picking up the true intentions of others as they depend solely on the words that are being spoken. They aren't equipped with the speed reading skills and behavior pattern identifiers to see these non-verbal signals. Not anymore. James Daugherty is an intelligence expert & former CIA spy who specializes in all forms of human behavior. But there's one skill which is critical to true communication: body language. A spy would be lost without the ability to read these gestures. However, he never realized quite how much his ability to read others whilst working for the FBI & in the field as an American spy would help everyday people in civilian life.
©2017 James Daugherty (P)2017 James Daugherty
Door to a Dark Room
Summary
Residents of Santa Clarita, one of the nation's safest cities, are jolted when a decapitated woman is discovered in the car of a missing realtor. When detectives home in on her wealthy husband, a mystery begins to unravel, and the investigation heats up. Los Angeles Sheriff’s homicide detective Dickie Jones has returned to work after recovering from gunshot wounds. His wife has left him, and his partner, Matt “Pretty Boy Floyd” Tyler, has been assigned a new partner. A serial killer is on the loose, which might be just the diversion Dickie needs. When he and Floyd are reunited to hunt down the murderer, all seems right in his world again - until the veteran detectives discover that Dickie is next on the killer’s list. Door to a Dark Room is a gripping crime thriller with twists and turns. Written by a former homicide detective, this book will take you beyond the yellow tape into the hearts, souls, and tormented minds of those who hunt evil.
©2018 Danny R. Smith (P)2019 Danny R. Smith
Dupree's Reward
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Who can you turn to when the law is the enemy? When high-powered corporate lawyer Dupree arrives in White Owl, Washington, he should know better than to get between a corrupt deputy and the focus of his lust. Little did he know that his actions set in motion a reign of terror on the whole town. Will the town continue to allow a corrupt man to destroy their gentle life and make law the enemy? Sometimes the battle between good and evil seems unwinnable, until just one man steps out of the shadows and dares to make a difference. Fans of Lee Child, David Baldacci, and Michael Connelly will love Adam Dupree’s quest to live a life fulfilled.
©2020 Micheal Maxwell (P)2020 Micheal Maxwell
Cowboy State of Mind
Summary
When life is on the line, you learn to live...and never miss a dance. Dr. CC Peladora never expected to ask a stranger to father her child, but neither did she think she’d be diagnosed with a chronic disease. With a failed marriage and a busy career, love is the last thing on her priority list, but she wants more than anything to experience motherhood before it’s too late. When she hears through the grapevine that Adam Colt, the sexy, mysterious son of Buzz Colt, must marry to meet the stipulations of his father’s will, she sees an opportunity that won’t come along again. And living like there’s no tomorrow, this is her time to get what she wants.... Adam just happened to be sitting on a bar stool in a local honky tonk when the spunky woman he’s been fantasizing about for months walks in and turns his world upside down. She offers to give him what he needs, an arranged marriage, for something she wants desperately. A child. No doubt he wants to kiss her, but marry her? And give her a child and then disappear from Tarnation forever? His father’s stained blood might run through Adam’s veins, but a real cowboy would never leave his kin. But in his journey to prove that he’s nothing like Buzz, he finds more than he ever bargained for...and a forgiveness he never expected would come. A secret marriage. Vulnerable hearts. Off-the-charts chemistry and small-town romance will have CC and Adam proving that a spirited vet and an alpha cowboy can find love in the most unlikely places. Other books in the Tarnation, Texas series: Hitched The Cowboy’s Son Pour Me a Drink
©2019 Rhonda Lee Carver (P)2020 Rhonda Lee Carver
Rogue Wolves
Summary
He is known as the "Master". Spy, double agent, freelance assassin. He has been at the top of his game for 30 years and worked for Nazis, Communists, intelligence agencies, and terrorists alike. No one knows his true identity. Now, the world’s most secretive assassin has disappeared, and several intelligence networks want him captured, interrogated, and "redacted". Jack Grant, now a contract agent for the French Secret Service, is assigned to track the Master down. Hot on his heels is a deadly and beautiful CIA bounty hunter, more than capable of hunting down both of them. But the Master has an agenda of his own, and he's ready to begin a war that will engulf them all.
©2018 James Quinn (P)2019 James Quinn
The Trees Have Eyes
Summary
If someone screams in the forest and no one is around, will they regret ever making a sound? Stepping into the forest, you're surrounded by the natural grandeur of a world that has no need of you. The silence is so heavy that you can hear your blood thundering through your veins. The stir of dry leaves in the darkness could be your friend finding his way back, but it sounds more like a primordial monster stalking its prey. And the lights between the trees? And the haunting songs that lure you ever deeper? It's time to admit you aren't afraid of being alone in the woods. You're afraid of not being alone. Journey through the minds of 22 horror authors who have teamed up to reveal the most terrifying aspects of the forest. These original supernatural and psychological horror stories include: ghosts, demons, serial killers, true stories and unsolved mysteries, unique monsters, classic myths and legends, and above all else, a profound respect for the terror hidden within the mysterious trees.
©2018 Tobias Wade (P)2018 Tobias Wade
Hawaiian Punch
Summary
When newly licensed Honolulu private eye Nate Savidge hits the streets to track down the killer of a local college student, he soon discovers there's a dark side to paradise. With the help of criminal lawyer Jake Harper, Nate takes on a city teeming with violence and corruption to keep an innocent 17-year-old from a life behind bars.
But only once he survives an attempt on his life does Nate fully realize that he has become a target - and that the killer he's been searching for may be much closer than he thinks.
©2018 Rick Chesler and Douglas Corleone (P)2018 Rick Chesler
Merkabah Rider: High Planes Drifter
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A Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers across the demon-haunted American Southwest of 1879. In this acclaimed first volume, four sequential novellas and one bonus short story chronicle the weird adventures of the Merkabah Rider. In The Blood Libel, The Rider fights to save the last survivors of a frontier Jewish settlement not only from a maddened lynch mob, but from a cult of Molech worshippers hiding in their midst. In The Dust Devils, a border town is held hostage by a band of outlaws in league with a powerful Vodoun sorcerer. In Hell's Hired Gun, The Rider faces an ex-Confederate sharpshooter who has pledged his allegiance to Hell itself. In The Nightjar Women, The Rider drifts into a town where children cannot be born. Here an antediluvian being holds the secret to his fugitive master's insidious plan: a plot that threatens all of Creation. Finally, never before collected, "The Shomer Express." On a midnight train crossing the desert, a corpse turns up desecrated. Someone stalking the cars has assumed its shape, and only The Rider can stop it.
©2018 Edward M. Erdelac (P)2019 Edward M. Erdelac
A Relic to Die For
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Someone is selling Captain Scott's Confederate weapons online, but where are they getting them? Jake is hired to check on the captain's grave and along with his Golden Retriever, Fred, embarks on a journey that leads to a shocking murder....
©2017 Richard Houston (P)2018 Richard Houston
Cowboy Creed
Summary
Seconds chances come in their own time. For Mindy and Creed the flame remains. Newly divorced and empty nester, Mindy Sage, decided that her hometown might be the perfect place to reinvent herself, or at least find the wild and carefree girl she used to be before she moved away. She’s craving small town comfort, but the problem is, in Cooper’s Hawk, everyone knows everyone. Secrets can feel as tall and wide as the Montana mountains that backdrop the friendly, picturesque town where she’d left her heart in the hands of a handsome cowboy 19 years ago. Search and Rescue team member, Creed Hawke, understood more than anyone what saving a life meant, but who would save him from the one woman he’d never gotten over? He’d moved on - or at least he thought he had until those old emotions come tumbling back with the vengeance of a forest fire. He’s reminded of how much he’d loved Mindy, wanted her, swore to marry her. Why couldn’t he forget her? Resist her? Deny her his heart? Because he’d fallen for her at ten and never came back up for air. How can he forgive her for stealing his daughter from him? Is love stronger than the mistakes they’ve made? Or are they doomed before they find forever?
©2020 Rhonda Lee Carver (P)2020 Rhonda Lee Carver
A Secret to Die For
Summary
From a USA Today best-selling author Some secrets should stay buried. That's nearly impossible when a Golden Retriever named Fred, with a knack for digging up the truth, shows up with his owner to investigate an accidental drowning. When Jake realizes the drowning is no accident, his new girlfriend starts avoiding him. She's a sheriff deputy and says she doesn't want or need his help, but could she have another motive for keeping him quiet?
©2018 Richard Houston (P)2018 Richard Houston
Revenge and Chameli Gonzales
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When a gang of savage outlaws led by Jim Singer, one of the worst killers in the West, brutally torture and kill the parents of an even worse killer than they are, then rape and defile his 12-year-old sister, leaving her to die a slow painful death, there is nowhere for them to hide as Andrew Hanson doggedly hunts them down one by one. His determination to inflict the cruelest torture on each and every one of them for the way they butchered his family, before killing them in the most painful way possible, leads him on a journey that spans thousands of miles and many years as he follows them from state to state and through some of the most lawless towns in the west. Along the way, he reluctantly acquires a travelling companion, who, although beautiful, is, to Hanson's mind, completely a unhinged and crazy woman. Her name is Chameli Gonzales. She has her own reasons for seeking revenge on Singer, but she is the most unpredictable, fiery, aggravating, and troublesome woman he has ever met. However, as the years pass, he realizes that he needs her more than he cares to admit. Even the times when they are apart for years, she is always on his mind as he travels the great plains of the west. This is the story of a man's epic journey to seek brutal revenge on the killers of his mother, father, and sister and the many people who cross his path along the way, some of them die as enemies and some of them he learns to care for and love as family. But always, at the back of his mind, is the woman he cannot erase from his thoughts. A woman who watches over him like a specter, the beautiful and charismatic, Chameli Gonzales.
©2013 Ken Coleman (P)2016 Ken Coleman
In the Palm of His Hand
Summary
When two very different worlds collide... Hailey is a palm reader and a fortune teller, complete with crystal balls and tarot cards in her little shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She is a throwback to the '60s, with her boho style and long, blonde hair. Joshua is a marketing guy - a handsome business type - who has been seeing Hailey professionally for over a year. She predicted his promotion, that he'd find the perfect condo, and just about everything that's happened in his life recently. But he is ready to find his soulmate, and Hailey hasn't quite been able to tell him about her, except that there will be someone in his future. They are as different as day and night, but Hailey has fallen in love with Josh. She knows it can never happen, and it would be unethical for her to predict that she was his soulmate. Josh is attracted to her, too, even though she's just not his type. But when they begin to go out as friends, they soon discover they have much more in common than they realized. When a lifelong dream that Josh thought was out of his reach becomes a possibility, will he have to choose between that and his new love? Publisher's note: This sweet romance contains a theme of power exchange.
©2019 ABCD Graphics and Design, Inc. (P)2020 ABCD Graphics and Design, Inc.
Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
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On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north. From that moment on, Morgan’s presence made an immediate impact on the battlefield and on his superiors. Washington soon recognized Morgan’s leadership and tactical abilities. When Morgan’s troops blocked the British retreat at Saratoga in 1777, ensuring an American victory, he received accolades from across the colonies. In Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, the first biography of this iconic figure in 40 years, historian Albert Louis Zambone presents Morgan as the quintessential American everyman, who rose through his own dogged determination from poverty and obscurity to become one of the great battlefield commanders in American history. Using social history and other advances in the discipline that had not been available to earlier biographers, the author provides an engrossing portrait of this storied personality of America’s founding era - a common man in uncommon times. The book is published by Westholme Publishing. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. “Quite an enjoyable read!” (Edward G. Lengel, author of General George Washington: A Military Life) “A tour-de-force. A wonderful book.” (Mark Edward Lender, coauthor of Fatal Sunday) "Evocative and engaging book...crisply written and not to be missed by readers interested in the origins of the American Republic." (Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University)
©2018 Albert Louis Zambone (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Jane's Baby
Summary
Whatever happened to Jane Roe's baby?
Norma McCorvey, of Caddo-Comanche heritage, did not terminate the pregnancy that led her to become the anonymous plaintiff of the landmark U.S. supreme court women's rights case Roe v Wade because in 1971, when the motion was first argued, abortion in the U.S. was illegal. The Jane Roe real-life child would now be a woman in her late 40s, the potential of her polarizing celebrity unknown to her. A religious rights splinter group has blackmailed its way into learning the identity of the Roe baby, the product of a closed adoption.
To what end, only a new supreme court case will reveal. Tourette's-afflicted K9 bounty hunter Judge Drury, a Marine, stands in the way of the splinter group's attempt at stacking the Supreme Court via blackmail, murder, arson, sleight of hand, and secret identities.
©2018 Chris Bauer (P)2019 Intrigue Publishing
Reality, Grief, Hope
Summary
Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up. Pointing out striking correlations between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the destruction of ancient Jerusalem, Brueggemann shows how the prophetic biblical response to that crisis was truth-telling in the face of ideology, grief in the face of denial, and hope in the face of despair. He argues that the same prophetic responses are urgently required from us now if we are to escape the deathliness of denial and despair. Brueggemann's Reality, Grief, Hope boldly confronts the dominant forces of our time, taking on principalities and powers that vie for our souls, and calls the church to courageous action.
©2014 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (P)2017 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Dark Thoughts: A Collection of Horror Stories
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Kevin J. Kennedy has put together some of the horror world’s best-selling anthologies over recent years. Now, for the first time, he has collected some of his own short stories in one place. Dark Thoughts features a brand new, 8,000 word tribute story to Richard Laymon's Dark Mountain.
©2019 Kevin J. Kennedy (P)2020 Kevin J. Kennedy
Steel Wind
Summary
What if North Korea’s sudden turn toward peace is a cunning act of misdirection? A routine Coast Guard inspection of a cargo ship in the Caribbean turns into a vicious firefight with unidentified Asian commandos. The second attempt to board the vessel ends with a nuclear detonation. North Korea has been smuggling short- and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. An unknown number of nuclear warheads are hidden less than 100 miles from the tip of Florida. Every American city east of San Antonio is in the target zone. Scrambling to stop the flow of weapons to Cuba, the president orders the Atlantic Fleet to surround the island, cutting off all access. It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time there won’t be a diplomatic resolution. The North Koreans have developed a secret weapon that rips through the blockade with ease, leaving burning ships and floating bodies in its wake. Against this unimagined threat stand a small detachment of US Marines and a cutting-edge destroyer that’s never been tested in combat. It’s a battle we never expected to fight, against an enemy we can barely comprehend....
©2018 Jeff Edwards (P)2018 Jeff Edwards