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Library Bookwatch, March, 2005
Random House Audio
1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019
Four excellent new audio packages for leisure listeners combine professional, lively readers with excellent, tested writers. Richard North Patterson's new Conviction (0739301349, $26.95) receives Patricia Kalember's evocative, dramatic reading--perhaps enhanced by her extensive film, TV and theater background--as it tells of one Rennell Price, who has 59 days to live until he's executed for a murder he didn't commit. It's up to attorney Terri Paget to save him and she probes a dangerous world in her efforts to prove him innocent. Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson's Frankenstein Book 1: Prodigal Son (0739317113, $29.95) receives John Bedford Lloyd's bold and brisk style as it tells of a dangerous killer who stalks the streets, lacks humanity, and involves a cynical female detective determined to track him down. Add conspiracy and a near-immortal race of killers to the mix and you have a tense plot brought to life by veteran actor/narrator John Bedford Lloyd. John Grisham's new novel The Broker is out (0739316443, $27.95), and when paired with Dennis Boutsikaris' award-winning performing voice, it's going to prove one of his most gripping thrillers ever. An outgoing President grants a last-minute pardon to a notorious Washington power broker in response to CIA pressure- and a game of intrigue, espionage, and smuggling evolves which involves various world political factions in a struggle. Packed with intrigue and exciting back-and-forth drama. Lisa Gardner's Alone (0739313061, $27.50) receives Holter Graham's involving reading as it tells of a hostage standoff and a moment of violence which connects three very different lives. A tense thriller comes to life under reader Graham's treatment.
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