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    Tsar: A Thriller
    Tsar: A Thriller
    Tsar: A Thriller
    Audiobook17 hours

    Tsar: A Thriller

    Written by Ted Bell

    Narrated by John Shea

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    In Ted Bell's latest pulse-pounding and action-packed tour de force, Alex Hawke must face a global nightmare of epic proportions. As this political crisis plays out, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, but a new tsar, a signal to the world that the old, imperial Russia is back and plans to have her day. And in America, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent family and literally flattens the small Midwestern town they once called home. Just a taste, according to the new tsar, of what will happen if America does not back down. Onto this stage must step Alex Hawke, espionage agent extraordinaire and the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the absolute madness borne and bred inside the modern police state of Vladimir Putin's "New Russia."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 23, 2008
    ISBN9781423374909
    Author

    Ted Bell

    Ted Bell was the former vice-chairman of the board and creative director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies. He was the New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Hawke series. Ted Bell passed away in 2023.

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    • 4/5
      Not as good as the other Hawke books. Very improbable technology to create the tension.
    • 4/5
      Overall I enjoyed. However one glaring error of factual information let it down. On page 583 it refers to Tsar Nicholas II wife and Empress as Katherine when it should have been Alexandra Feodorovna. Lack of research I am afraid
    • 1/5
      I disliked this book. What more can I say. I don't really know how I got through it without throwing it out the window unread. I disliked so much about it that it's hard to know where to start. So I won't.

      While reading this all I could imagine was James Bond and a comic caricature of him at that.
    • 2/5
      This book is absolutely terrible. Its like a literary version of CSI Miami. No sense. People just up and die. Only thing that saves it, is that the characters are interesting and you get curious about what happens to them. This almost worse then a James Patterson book.
    • 2/5
      I was only able to read this book from beginning to end because I was on a flight from Baltimore to Denver and had nothing better to do. At least it was slightly better than watching the in-flight movie.
    • 4/5
      But not that bad. I love Alex Hawke and his crew (especially Stokely Jones), and I enjoyed catching up with them since it's been awhile since the last book, but I found this book didn't grip me like the others have. It had a slow start, but once the action started, it got better. This book is about the Russian threat. It brings back all the cold war politics, but they are a lot more of a threat in this book because they have lots of money and access to technological advances that they didn't have in the sixties. Alex and Stoke and their group of ex-Navy Seals perform a daring hostage rescue and I think that was the best part of this book. Anyway, Hawke is a great creation, and I can't wait to read more.
    • 1/5
      This is quite possibly the WORST book I have ever read. And that says something because I read about 30 crime, suspense and mystery novels a year, and a LOT of them are disappointing. But this is undoubtedly the worst in as long as I can remember. The sole redeeming feature of the book is an imaginative central conceit, i.e., that cheap personal computers made by the tens of millions in Russia and sold all over the world are actually networked explosive devices that an autocratic new Russian ruler uses to blackmail the West. That's as good as it gets.The rest of the book is a laughable muddle. Characters so cliched that the word doesn't do justive to how flimsy and one-sided they are. Everything is painted in the starkest blacks and whites. I would compare the book's narrative nuance and complexity to a lesser Hardy Boys novel, but that would be unfair to the Hardy Boys. (I honestly would not have been surprised if Biff Henderson had made a cameo appearance around about page 375.) The dialogue reads like a 500 page entry in the annual "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" competition. What a mess. Steer clear. Life is too short ot waste on drivel like this.