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Down to the Wire
Down to the Wire
Down to the Wire
Audiobook7 hours

Down to the Wire

Written by David Rosenfelt

Narrated by Matt Wolfe

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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A reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle, was one of the last great investigative reporters and a difficult man to impress. While stuck covering press conferences and town hall meetings, Chris, his father’s legend in mind, has always dreamed of his own Pulitzer, however unlikely it seems. Then one day while he’s waiting to meet a source, a giant explosion takes out half of an office building next door. Shocked into action, Chris saves five people from the burning building. His firsthand account in the next day’s paper makes him a hero and a celebrity. And that’s not all. The source’s next tip delivers a second headline-grabber of a story for Chris, and suddenly his career is looking a lot more like his dad’s. But then it seems this anonymous source has had a plan for Chris all along, and his luck for being in the right place at the right time is not a coincidence at all. What seemed like a reporter’s dream quickly becomes an inescapable nightmare. Down to the Wire, David Rosenfelt’s shocking new thriller about an ordinary man who gets exactly what he’s always wanted at a price he can never pay, is an intense thrill ride that will have readers racing through the pages right up to the end.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2010
ISBN9781593164997
Down to the Wire
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David Rosenfelt

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog Night, Collared, and Deck the Hounds; its spinoff series, The K-Team; the Doug Brock thriller series, which starts with Fade to Black; and stand-alone thrillers including Heart of a Killer and On Borrowed Time. Rosenfelt and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with 25 of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    A going-nowhere journalist gets a good lead that lands him in the limelight by accident. Another lead ends up in another great story. Then another. And it becomes evident that he is becoming targeted for some reason. More people start to die.
    On the whole, a mediocre thriller. When you feel like kicking the hero for the idiotic things he does, that means you're not entering into the spirit of things.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was disappointing. I expected better writing from Mr. Rosenfelt. It didn't live up to his earlier books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Lots of suspense and and likeable characters....and a couple or so characters who weren't so appealing. A plot just convoluted enough to keep me guessing through most of the book, and a little romance with enough humor to keep me thoroughly entertained. Excellent narrator. Well worth your time. Enjoy.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Chris Turley was a second generation reporter for the Bergen News in New Jersey. He get an anonymous lead for a hot story and when he goes to meet his source, just in front of him a whole building blows up. And the story begins. In looking back on this book, it is full of holes and leaps of credibility and large pile of implausibilities and I enjoyed it enormously. I did 'read' the audible book and the reader (Matt Wolfe) was particularly skillful which is always so good.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I enjoyed the Andy Carpenter series by this author. The main character is a wise ass and he makes me laugh. This book did not hit the mark for me. I suggest trying the series before you pass on Mr. Rosenfelt as an author.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Reporter Chris Turley is waiting in the city park to meet an anonymous source when the building across the street explodes in flames. He saves five people and becomes a national overnight celebrity. Then Chris gets two more big scoops and begins to think his source may be someone with more sinister motives manipulating his every move. Rosenfelt’s ability to create suspense portraying the ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances makes this thriller race to its shocking climax.