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    The Leveling
    The Leveling
    The Leveling
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Leveling

    Written by Dan Mayland

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

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    About this audiobook

    These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on his life in the hallowed halls of the national library.

    The Azeri government deems Sava, with his complex past, a security threat and orders him out of the country immediately. At the same time, the CIA orders Sava back to the US. But when he receives cryptic photos that lead him to believe his friend John Decker has been kidnapped—Sava knows he has no option but to find Decker.

    He teams up with ex–CIA spy and former girlfriend Daria Buckingham, and the two soon find themselves being chased by Chinese intelligence agents through the underworlds of Turkmenistan and Iran, caught in the middle of a secret conflict over oil that has the US and Iran tumbling headlong into war.

    Filled with the espionage intrigue and pulse-pounding action that made The Colonel’s Mistake a runaway hit, The Leveling brings to life in electrifying detail one of the most dangerous regions of the globe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 8, 2013
    ISBN9781480556386
    The Leveling
    Author

    Dan Mayland

    Dan Mayland spent years exploring the outer limits of Western civilization and beyond. He has slept on the streets of Europe, summited mountains in Colombia and Bolivia, trekked through Bhutan and Nepal, visited remote Buddhist monasteries in India, and explored Shiite mosques in Iran and Azerbaijan. An international news and foreign policy junkie, Mayland is an avid reader of Stratfor.com, AlJazeera.com, ForeignPolicy.com, Ettelaat.com, and Rferl.com, and he has written articles for Iranian.com. Mayland’s first book, The Colonel’s Mistake, is the inaugural novel of the Mark Sava series.

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    • 3/5
      Underdeveloped story line and disconnected narration. Extremely hard to follow.
    • 5/5
      The Leveling is an action packed, edge-of-your-seat, suspense thriller! With incredible details on tensions in the middle-east, heart-accelerating action, and characters that are realistic and laudable, this novel is a must read!

      The Leveling is a sequel to the first Mark Sava spy novel, The Colonel's Mistake, but can easily be read as a stand alone book. From the first pages, the story is gripping. The action includes a mission gone wrong, government corruption, complex political aims, and ex-CIA agents who soon find themselves on a life or death mission to save one of their own. The story is excellently written, easy to follow and exciting. The characters are dynamic, well-developed, and one cannot help but cheer for them. With incredible behind-the-scenes information, surveillance, and creativity, Mark Sava and Daria Buckingham are the last hope to save Deck.

      Reading this book is an adventure and I absolutely hope that the Mark Sava spy thrillers continue! I give this book a solid 5 stars!! Excellent from start to finish!