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    The Program
    The Program
    The Program
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Program

    Written by Stephen White

    Narrated by Sandra Burr

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Program safeguards the truth, but when The Program has a hidden agenda, the protected become the hunted

    With his nuanced psychological insight, inscrutable plotting, and a captivating lead character that parallels Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware, Stephen White's Alan Gregory novels have become perennial national bestsellers. But, with The Program, White has challenged himself and honed his craft with remarkable assurance to create a rare breed of thriller. A dazzling mix of first-person and omniscient voices rewards readers with an irresistible narrative momentum. But the heart and soul of the novel is an indomitable woman reevaluating the seemingly innocuous choices she's made in the past while confronting the horrifying circumstances that threaten her family's future survival.

    "Every precious thing I lose, you will lose two." The Program begins with a condemned man's last words to New Orleans District Attorney Kirsten Lord. After her husband is gunned down in front of her, Lord has no choice but to flee the wrath of the murderer's vengeance. Lord pulls up stakes, changes her name, and accepts the Witness Protection Program's offer to hide her and her young daughter in Boulder, Colorado. Soon thereafter, they are befriended by Program veteran Carl Luppo, a solitary mob assassin tormented by his former life who has nothing but time for regret.

    Sensing that someone inside the program has compromised Lord and her daughter's safety, Luppo takes on the role of sentinel, fully realizing that this may be his last shot at redemption. Even though Lord suspects that Luppo's warnings about the Program's dark side are justified and that she should believe the former hit man's instincts, the only people she can really trust are her nine-year-old daughter and perhaps her Program-appointed psychologist Alan Gregory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 25, 2005
    ISBN9781596007666
    The Program
    Author

    Stephen White

    Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Kill Me and Dry Ice. He lives in Colorado.

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    • 4/5
      When prosecutor Kirsten Lord's husband was gunned down outside a restaurant before their anniversary lunch, her world was changed forever. But, when her daughter barely escaped kidnapping, she changed her world even more by going into the federal witness protection program. But keeping them safe turned out to not be so easy.
    • 2/5
      Started off a bit messy in the beginning, and didn't manage to really grasp my full attention later on. It's a nice story, nevertheless, and you can feel the main characters greatest emotions.

      The plot, I thought, was pretty silly however.
    • 4/5
      Loved the plot twistings and turnings regarding a woman and her child in a witness protection program and how in the care of a former hit man she finds a fierce protector.
    • 3/5
      The program in Stephen White’s THE PROGRAM is the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), better known as the Witness Protection Program. Designed to protect people who testify at trials for the prosecution but at great risk to themselves, WITSEC hides those people from others who would harm them by changing their identities and relocating them.WITSEC is protecting a different type of person in THE PROGRAM, though.Kirsten Lord was a prosecuting attorney who helped condemn a man to prison. At the end of that trial, the man promised her, “Every precious thing I lose, you will lose two.” And he made good on his promise; he had Lord’s husband murdered.That was one loss, and Kirsten didn’t want to wait for the second. She was sure the second would be her daughter. So she and her daughter enter WITSEC, relocate to Colorado, and change their names, hers to Peyton, the daughter’s to Landon.But we soon learn that Kirsten/Peyton has more to fear than the condemned man.Before that trial, she had spoken out against WITSEC. She saw them protect too many witnesses who should have been in jail, themselves, and went on to commit more crimes. As a result of her complaints, WITSEC received less money and support, and several WITSEC employees lost their jobs. Therefore, now WITSEC resents her and cannot necessarily be trusted.And there’s another concern: Kirsten had helped condemn another man to death, but she now has doubts about his guilt. Someone wants to stop her reinvestigation of this case.So now poor Kirsten/Peyton and her daughter have all sorts of people who want to do them harm coming at them, it seems, everywhere they go, all the time. And the really implausible part of the story: Kirsten/Peyton befriends a man who is also in WITSEC, a man who is former Mafia, a man who has murdered several people. Kirsten/Peyton doesn’t trust WITSEC, yet she does trust this murderer.The book isn’t bad as long as the reader is willing to suspend disbelief.
    • 5/5
      When New Orleans District Attorney Kirsten Lord and her nine-year-old daughter are imperiled by a chillingly believeable death threat, Lord has no other choice but to accept the Witness Portection Program's offer to hide them in Boulder, Colorado. There, they meet program beteran Carl Luppo, a solitary mob hit man who is tormented by his former life and has nothing but time for regret. Sensing that Lord and her daughter's safety has been compromised, Luppo takes on the role of sentinel, fully realizing this might be his last shot at redemption. While Lord suspects that Luppo's warnings about the program's dark side are for her own protection and that she should believe the former assassin's instincts, the only person she can really trust is nine years old. This was good reading and I didn't really work the whole thing out until the final scenes.
    • 4/5
      A psychological thriller with believeable characters. A little predictable in places and not scary enough to keep me awake and turning the pages (this one took me much longer to read than it should have!). This was the first StephenWhite book I've read...and I'll give him another shot to captivate me by reading another of his books in the future.