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Hell and Gone
Written by Duane Swierczynski
Narrated by Pete Larkin
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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The second of three high-energy thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation Duane Swierczynski.
Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound and transported by strange operatives of unknown origin, Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth.
And then things get really bad. Because this isn't just any prison. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare that comes springloaded with a brutal catch-22: Hardie's the warden. And any attempt to escape triggers a "death mechanism" that will kill everyone down here--including a group of innocent guards. Faced with an unworkable paradox, and knowing that his wife and son could be next on the Accident People's hit list, Hardie has only one choice: fight his way to the heart of this hell hole and make a deal with the Devil himself.
Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound and transported by strange operatives of unknown origin, Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth.
And then things get really bad. Because this isn't just any prison. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare that comes springloaded with a brutal catch-22: Hardie's the warden. And any attempt to escape triggers a "death mechanism" that will kill everyone down here--including a group of innocent guards. Faced with an unworkable paradox, and knowing that his wife and son could be next on the Accident People's hit list, Hardie has only one choice: fight his way to the heart of this hell hole and make a deal with the Devil himself.
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Duane Swierczynski
DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI is the author of The Wheelman, The Blonde, Severance Package, and Expiration Date, and writes for Marvel Comics. The Wheelman was nominated for the Gumshoe Award. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Reviews for Hell and Gone
Rating: 3.775362304347826 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A trip thru hell and back. Kept my attention and I could not put it down. Take a thrill ride through hell
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Every bit as good as the first book in the series. I can't wait for the 3rd book in the trilogy. Swierczynski is tops in his field, great style of writing and able to tell a great story that keeps you turning pages.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the sequel to Fun & Games and continues the adventures of Charlie Hardie. It picks up right after the end of the first book and puts "Unkillable Chuck" into a living hell. Charlie is not one to give up so easily. And the people who put him there will soon find out. Some nice plot twists I did not see coming. And what the hell was that ending? Can't wait to see how Duane Swierczynski wraps things up in the finale of this trilogy!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell & Gone is somewhere between a comic book story and a traditional thriller. Based on the two books I have read, Swierczynski produces original ideas and plots that are entertaining to read. Biographical material on the book cover indicates Swierczynski is also a writer for Marvel Comics. It shows in this book.The other Swierczynski novel I read was Expiration Date, a science fiction/time travel puzzler. In Hell & Gone he produces a plot that again borders on science fiction. Secret underground prisons with uncertain roles between guards and prisoners maintain suspense as Charlie Hardie tries to understand whether he is a prisoner or a guard and attempts to escape.This is the second book in a Charlie Hardie trilogy. Without reading the first book, it is hard to understand just how Hardie got himself into the situation presented in Hell & Gone. And the ending of this book is merely a teaser for the the third novel in the trilogy. Based on the tease, it will probably be more fantastic than its predecessor. Fun reads - recommended for those who can suspend belief even more than is required for mainline thrillers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book, the second in the Charlie Hardie trilogy, was a little bit odd for me. At one point I said to my husband (without the book in front of me) that I was a good third of the way into it and yet I still felt like I was at the beginning, still leading up to the real brunt of the story. But the next time I picked up the book, I realized I was actually fully halfway into the book, not just a third. Nonetheless, I was engaged and always eager to grab the book when I had some spare moments to read. This one is a little weirder than the first ("Fun and Games") -- the conspiracy theory stuff broadens and gets a little further "out there". Overall, another action-packed, movie-esque enjoyable read. I'll definitely be reading the last book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Charlie Hardie once worked with the Philadelphia police, cleaning up the town. But the bad guys killed his partner and his partner's family, and Charlie wound up house sitting and living a dead existence. Until he met an unexpected squatter at his latest job, kicking off a chain of events that nearly kills him while bringing him to the attention of a hidden organization that runs everything.Ok, so here's the deal. What I just wrote happened in the first book, Fun and Games. In reality, this isn't a trilogy. It's a single book in three volumes, the last of which isn't quite out yet. Hell and Gone continues Charlie's story, and continues the devolution into weirdness.Because, yeah, this is one *weird* story, and not in the Lovecraft sense. What starts as a fairly run of the mill suspense/thriller becomes in short order pretty strange, but strangely fascinating, I enjoyed it and am seriously interested to see where the story goes next!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received this book Finally! It cam about 75 daysafter I won it from Librarything's early copies. I have read two other books by this author (The Blonde, and Serverance Package, that people raved about, and when I finished each book I must confess, I did not understand why so many people loved them, but I decided to try the author one more time, The story is a good one once you get to the end of it and the author explains it to you through the main character, the problem is by then if you are like me it is too late. It draggs on in places which is surprising because it is not that long of a book. I think that this book promises far more than it delivers, and SPOILER ALERT it does notget resolved! You will have to read part 3. Unfortunately part 2 was not good enough to make me want to see how this story finally ends.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good grief! This book may not be quite as engrossing as its predecessor Fun & Games, but it is just as over the top and about ten times stranger, which is saying a lot. The only question is how Swiercynski is going to succeed in having it all make some sort of sense at the end of the final volume of the trilogy. There are some plot holes here and occurrences that don't make a lot of sense other than as a way for something to happen later, but Swiercynski's writing style is absolutely riveting. The book is also notable for its close approaches to being just a little too violent or vulgar for enjoyment, but the author always steers away just in time. Highly highly recommended, despite the flaws. I can't think of another writer who can take you on a ride quite like this one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finally on to new ground with the Charlie Hardie trilogy. This one wasn’t as slam-bang awesome as the first book, but it had some great characters, cool twists, and a bizarre setting in an underground prison where it isn’t clear who is an inmate and who is a guard. As these books continued, they just got weirder and weirder…
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While technically a sequel, this is quite different in setting and action, almost like the author is just exploring another format with some of the same characters as the first novel. He pulls it off and it is a fun ride. But definitely a departure from the first book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick warning for anyone checking these on a bookshelf: DO NOT read the backs of books two and three. They iteratively spoil the living hell out of the series. The publisher should have shot and buried the person who approved them. (Mulhollandbooks - I work cheap!)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charlie “"Unkillable Chuck" Hardie is back, after barely surviving the epic shootout with the devious Accident People in Fun & Games. If you thought that was a sinister rollercoaster ride, just tighten your grip on the crash-bar, because you are about to take a wicked plunge, tumbling along with Charlie down the rabbit hole.I’m not sure anyone is writing crime novels, with such crazed and inventive audacity, asSwiercynski. These books are smart, funny and mind-blowing. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for the final book in the trilogy. I’m leaving my flak jacket on, just in case.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was still a lot of fun in an over-the-top, rollercoaster type of way: Charlie Hardie is a great character; the action is fast; Swierczynski still manages to avoid completely grossing the reader out with the violence (though there is still quite a bit of it). However, I liked it slightly less than the first book in this trilogy.Part of the problem was simple Middle Book Syndrome. While the basic subplot is started and finished in this volume, there's neither the excitement of building the story that you find in a first book, nor the resolution of the overall story you find in a final book.Another part is that this episode had a different feel to it. Whereas Fun & Games was all action-packed thriller, this had a slightly creepy sense to it—sort of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner with serial killers.It's a very quick read and has that flavor of Swierczynski's comic book background that I find appealing. It's not a book to use as your introduction to his writing; it won't make a whole lot of sense without reading Fun and Games.