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Panic
Written by Jeff Abbott
Narrated by Will Collyer
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott...
What if everything about your life was a lie?
Evan Casher is a successful documentary filmmaker with a perfect life--until the day his mother is brutally murdered. Suddenly pursued by a ruthless circle of killers, Evan discovers his entire past has been a carefully constructed lie. With only one chance at survival and no one he can trust, Evan must discover the shocking truth about his family--and himself...
What if everything about your life was a lie?
Evan Casher is a successful documentary filmmaker with a perfect life--until the day his mother is brutally murdered. Suddenly pursued by a ruthless circle of killers, Evan discovers his entire past has been a carefully constructed lie. With only one chance at survival and no one he can trust, Evan must discover the shocking truth about his family--and himself...
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Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott is the acclaimed author of nine novels, including Fear, Panic, and A Kiss Gone Bad. Nominated for three Edgar and two Anthony Awards, he lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.
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Reviews for Panic
Rating: 3.22772270990099 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I had a hard time getting into this CD. I didn't really like the narrator. I found myself annoyed at Evan. At first he was so dumb, then he gets smart. But he misses an obvious clue from his father.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5page turner
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed the book and entertaining enough. I loaned it to a friend who normally takes weeks to read a book. She devoured the book in a week!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reading time, 11.75 hours. Evan Casher, a budding but successful documentary film maker, is called home by his mother who seems very concerned about something but will not tell him. Even is unaware he his being drawn into a web of cutthroat espionage. I very much enjoyed listening to the story ; the narration done very well with varation in voices and expression. The plot is mostly believable but the main character developes skills of a CIA agent in a month's time which almost blew the believability!! In fact it was a dissapointment. The story was intriguing enough though, I wanted to finish listening anyway.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ok, but I could have quite easily stopped reading halfway through and wouldn't have been bothered about what happened.To be honest I found the story boring, it just didn't hold my attention like I thought it would have done. I didn't care enough about the characters and I found the whole back story regarding the CIA, etc. very hard to believe.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very fast. Wilfully complicated but not complex. A quick easy read making few demands of the reader.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ok but definitely not a favorite. Better than Fear was though
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One morning Evan Cashier gets a phone call from his mom telling him that he has to come home right away. She tells him that she doesn't want to say anything on the phone, but she'll explain everything. He doesn't want to go, but he does. He he arrives home, he sees his mother's body on the floor. The killers are still there and go after Evan. While he's being chased his world started to fall a part. He has to figure out who's killed his mom, and after him, and find his father. He can't trust anyone because people all around him are lying to him. He soon learns that his parents aren't who he thought they were. As he learns the truth, more and more people are after him, and he has to figure out why. That's pretty much an over view of the plot. Over all it was an okay read that started off so good, but then gets silly. When I found out the truth on what was going on, and the reason's why Evan's mom was killed, and his parents past, it was just so silly. I didn't mind it that it was so far fetched, but I didn't think it was logical. The more I learned about Evan and his family, the less I cared. The characters were okay, but kind of flat. There was one person who was afraid of snakes, but nothing was made of that.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Evan Casher had a normal life until his mother called and said she needed to see him right away. He goes to her home but finds her murdered. The killers also try to kill him but a man who says he's Evan's mother's friend saves him.Steven Jargo is the man who killed Evan's mom. Dizz is his son and associate. They are information brokers. Carrie Lindstrom is the girl posing as Ev's girlfriend so she can get info that may be in Evan's computer.The man who saved Ev says his name is Gabriel. He says Ev's mother hired him to get her out of Austin. He also asks Ev about files in his computer. Now Evan doesn't know who to trust and he runs from Gabriel.Evan learns that everything he believed about his family and his past is made up. By checking some names on his father's passports he sees a number of names and when he researches them, he finds one family who disappeared years ago. The story from the internet refers to a concerned neighbor. Evan calls her and asks her to look at his mother's photo on the news and see if that is a photo of her old neighbor. From this, Evan learns his name is Robert Peterson.Evan hooks up with a man nicknamed Shady who owes him a favor. He calls Jargo and finds that he is holding Evan's father and they arrange to meet in New Orleans.Then Evan calls a CIA agent who had been in contact with him and he tells that person about the meeting. When he spoke to Jargo, Ev pretended he had the files Jargo wanted. We learn that they contained Jargo's client list. At the zoo in New Orleans there is a shoot out and a major plot twist that is nicely done and unsuspected. After escaping from the park, Evan is back with Carrie and convinced that she is really CIA and works for Bricklayer. They want to catch Jargo and reveal his clients and some people Jargo has working for him in the CIA who are spies.A good plot that did get a bit confusing. The suspense was good. Evan is not well developed and in the first part of the story I was not drawn to care what happened to him.His development grew and together with Carrie the interest became better.Good suspense, original premise and well told.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is ok, but that's as good as it gets. I think the problem is it tries too hard to be clever. The pace is so fast that it runs away from you leaving an empty and cliched plot. The characters aren't particularly worth caring about either. It's one to read when you can't be bothered to read anything heavy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I just could not get into this book. I finally put it down after getting near the halfway point. The story seemed okay, just sort of flat to me. Not sure if it was because the book was not good, or if I'm just not in the mood for this kind of story right now. I'm disappointed that I didn't finish it but I was just slogging through it and thought, Enough is Enough! Maybe I'll give it another try down the road....
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Too many double agents = mass confusion and eventual disinterest. My only Panic was that the book might not end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well written adventure that continuously unfolds deeper. well worth the read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not bad, an eminently enjoyable, page-turning thriller. Suffers at the beginning from being quite similar in set up to, but not quite as good as, The Straw Men by Michael Marshall (Smith); but once it gets going it holds its own.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Started well and slid off into bad book oblivion. A very poor read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Way more enjoyable than the other reviewer thought. Evan was a bit lost at first and in denial but he savvied up. The narrator did fine IMO. I recommend it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well well well, I can understand why Harlan Coben is such a great fan of this thriller writer – lots of similarities between Abbott and Coben – lots of pace, plot twists and hardly any character development or depth, just plain die-hard good guys versus bad guys. Abbott is crafty – short sentences, lots of action, never a dull moment. But in order to keep the pace and suspense going Abbott has to insert (unlikely) twists, stay pretty primal (good vs evil) and keep his shot-up and tortured protagonists going as if they were Robocop. Evan is a film maker and has just gotten entangled with the beautiful Carrie, when he is called urgently to his mom’s place 3 hours drive away. When he arrives home, he enters a horror scenario – his mom strangled in the kitchen, himself being strapped up by two guys, then a third character saving him by shooting the rope he dangles from in two, Evan running off with this third guy, feeling kidnapped and then Evan decides to escape, so he ends up in a police car and on his way to the Station is violently kidnapped again by guy no.3, etc etc… You get my point? Basically the plot revolves around a bunch of former KGB sleepers, inserted as orphans in a burnt down orphanage in Ohio (wiping out their records), who subsequently go private, selling corporate intelligence to spy agencies and competitors across the world. They form a network called the deeps, each operating from its own vantage point (some from within the CIA). And for some reason (unclear which) Evan’s parents want out, his mom collating a file with names and personal details of members of the deeps and their clients. As soon as the bad guy and his son (Jargo and his mentally disturbed, sadistic son Dezz) sniff a scent of potential treason, they clamp down on Evan and his mom. And hence Evan ends in a week long hunt for the files, in order to extract himself, his dad and Carrie, while having to deal at the same time with a traitor-baiter who is ex CIA. End of story? All dead, including Evan’s dad, and Evan and Carrie are wounded but save to start a wonderful love life on a tropical island. Duh…
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A book that delivers what it sets out to do, which is take the reader on a twisting, turning rollercoaster t breakneck speed. It's full of unexpected events, people who aren't what they seem, double-crossing and so on. That said, it's not the sort of thing I generally go for; in general I would prefer character development over relentless action, but once in a while something like this is fine. If page-turning action is your bag, you could do a lot worse than this.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This might have been better if I'd read it & could skim more, but the writing wasn't great. The story line was pretty good, though. Not exactly a new plot, but it was different enough to keep it interesting.
Unfortunately, the author was another who succumbed to putting a silencer on a revolver or else turned an automatic into a revolver - I forget which, but it doesn't really matter. I won't go out of my way to read another by this author.
The reader wasn't bad. Not great, but I'm VERY picky about readers. His voices weren't the best, but he wasn't irritating at all. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book kept my interest. There were a lot of twists in the plot. You definitely needed some suspense of disbelief that the main charachter could get through all these people trying to kill him. But once I got over that problem it was a good book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Evan Casher is a young documentary film maker whose life is thrown into turmoil when his mother urges him to return to his home town of Austin Texas immediately. When he does, he discovers her body on the kitchen floor of their family home and the killers are still there. Believing Evan has some information they want, the killers torture him then leave him for dead but he is rescued by someone claiming to be one of the good guys. What follows is a wild ride with spies, double agents and lots of unnecessary killing.
This is a perfectly serviceable thriller in which a normal person is thrown into extraordinary circumstances. There’s action a-plenty and a main character who is charming enough that I wanted him to beat the bad guys (however unlikely it should have been). However, I found the plot overly complex but not as engaging as it might have been. There seemed to be a few too many unnecessary twists on top of what was basically a story about a list of names. At no point during the entire book did I care a jot whose name was on the list or what happened to it and when the list was all anyone was talking about it made for some dull spots.
As with all thrillers of this type you have to suspend your disbelief about whether or not an average bloke could suddenly develop the skills to take on a gang of well-trained mercenaries and the CIA in MacGyver-like fashion but I found it more difficult than it should have been to do that here. However I’ll acknowledge that if I’d enjoyed the story more I’d have been less picky about the absurdities of Evan’s success against all the well-trained killers he faced.
To be fair to the author, part of my problem with this particular reading experience had nothing to do with the author. The narrator of the audio version I listened to struggled quite a bit to maintain the separate voices for each character (perhaps due to their large number) and some of the voices were just plain jarring to the ear. In particular the voice of one of the two main bad guys annoyed me intensely and, although there weren’t many of them, the bits of action that involved British characters were plain awful.
To me there was nothing unique about this thriller but it’s the kind of thing lots of people, including the types who commission Hollywood movies these days, really enjoy. There’s loads of action sequences, a decent amount of interesting deaths, a particularly nasty villain, an explosion or two and minimal character development. I’d have preferred a touch more credibility and a few less fight sequences but that’s just me. If you’re going to tackle Panic though I really wouldn’t recommend this audio version.