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    Oblivion
    Oblivion
    Oblivion
    Audiobook11 hours

    Oblivion

    Written by Peter Abrahams

    Narrated by Ken Marks

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    Peter Abrahams is a national best-selling author Stephen King calls his "favorite American suspense novelist." Oblivion is the deftly plotted tale of a man thrust into a desperate situation while beset with memory loss. Private investigator Nick Petrov achieved celebrity status after apprehending serial killer Gerald Reasoner. When a woman retains his services to track down her missing daughter, Nick senses all is not as it seems. But then he suffers a head trauma, and large gaps appear in his memory. Bizarre clues lead him to believe that he must revisit the Reasoner case to solve the mystery he has been plunged into-even as a mounting sense of dread indicates that he might not make it through this investigation in one piece. Abrahams orchestrates a deftly plotted tale that will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish. "Abrahams creates palpable empathy for the bruised Nick and his pitch-perfect prose is a joy."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 26, 2007
    ISBN9781449801588
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    Peter Abrahams

    Peter Abrahams is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including the Edgar Award-winning Reality Check, Bullet Point, and the Echo Falls series for middle graders. Writing as Spencer Quinn, he is also the author of the Chet and Bernie series—Dog on It, Thereby Hangs a Tail, and To Fetch a Thief. He and his wife live in Massachusetts with their dog, Audrey.

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    • 5/5
      It's always nice coming across crime thrillers where the author keeps the story moving without having to be sneaky and hold back too much information from the reader to maintain suspense. In this book, first person perspective provides all the smoke screen necessary to keep the reader guessing, because the private investigator, Nick, doesn't even know for sure if he himself is the criminal he is looking for, once he figures out he is even tracking a criminal. He isn't sure if he even has a client for most of the story. There are some fun twists in this story, and while I did still work out who the bad guys were before they were revealed, the solution was not obvious until fairly late in the story.
    • 4/5
      This book comes dangerously close to describing the inner workings of the mind of the middle-aged male.

      That doesn't make it a great book, or even a particularly good one; but the passages describing self-doubt, anxiety (frankly, we're not all dealing with brain tumors, but we often act that way), the loss of a step (both physically and mentally) hew close to the emotional crux. The detective stuff? Guns, gals, motorcycles, murder, just a recognizable framework on which to hang the stuff that's valid. It's essentially a précis on human frailty, and as such is a more than worthwhile read.
    • 1/5
      Terrible! A waste of time.
    • 4/5
      somewhat difficult to follow but good
    • 3/5
      So it’s not a bad book.The writing is okay, but it’s also nothing to write home about.Entertainment Weekly’s review of it is a certainly over the top:"You know you're holding a first-rate thriller when you take it with you in the car to read at stoplights."- Entertainment Weekly. Grade: A. (Jennifer Reese)First of all, EW, if your need to read is that intense might I suggest that you take an alternate form of transportation from place to place? Secondly, if this book makes you want to read it a stoplights, I fear what would happen if you read something that was actually thrilling, or in fact, in any way exciting. Because this book is neither of those things. The guy from the LA Times must have been reading a different book than me, because, “exciting and out of the ordinary... full of funny, touching and alarming surprises...” is pretty much the opposite of how I would describe this book.
    • 3/5
      As usual, Abrahams delivers on character. Quirky and fun, he kept my interest.The story is hard to follow though, and the ending vaguely anti-climatic.
    • 5/5
      First, forget about inevitable comparisons to Memento...Love this book! Completely caught up in Nick’s mind, absolutely sympathetic to his denial AND his obsession to solve the case. I REALLY wanted him to get better at the end. I even loved his totally improbably instant marriage to his nurse. Who knows? Maybe that’s what people do when they have tumors.