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    Compound Fractures
    Audiobook (abridged)8 hours

    Compound Fractures

    Written by Stephen White

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    For more than twenty years, in nearly a score of bestselling crime novels, Stephen White's stories of Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory have captivated millions. Now, Compound Fractures provides a riveting last chapter to the series.

    In Line of Fire, Dr. Gregory found himself assailed by danger from every direction as he struggled with circumstances beyond his control. Authorities were closing in on Alan and his friend Sam Purdy for their roles in a woman's death years earlier. Alan was struggling to deal with the emotional breakdown of his longtime friend Diane after she discovered evidence of her husband's infidelity. By the end, Alan's personal life and his career were in danger of complete collapse.

    But Line of Fire merely set the stage. In Compound Fractures, Alan is forced to acknowledge that the perils that may bring him to his knees are not the dangers he recognizes, nor are they orchestrated by the nemesis he has long feared. Instead he is confronted by unexpected threats from unanticipated adversaries and by intimate betrayal from those who have been closest to him. He is compelled to reconsider what he has long believed about trust and about love while he is trying to cope with overwhelming loss and grief.

    To protect himself, Alan must revisit the cruel ethical dilemma that turned his life upside down as a young psychologist. He has to judge whether the people reentering his life after long absences are friends or foes. He has to make sense of echoes of distant tragedies while he decides if there is anyone he can really trust. And as the clock ticks down, he must solve a deadly mystery in Eldorado Springs that has been brewing for more than a decade.

    At times full of pathos, at other times replete with White's distinctive wry humor, Compound Fractures delivers the entrancing characters, the suspense, the intricately plotted story lines, and the unexpected twists that readers have come to expect.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781455836871
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    Compound Fractures
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    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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    • 2/5
      Most reviews I have read of this book, on this site and others, agree with my own personal assessment. It was just not very good. While there were moments of interest, most of the excessive length of the book was convoluted and boring. Sad to see a once great series end like this. Maybe Stephen White lost his muse.
    • 3/5
      For a final installment of a very long running series I found this book somewhat of a let down. It felt separated from the others in how the characters didn't seem to flow from the previous books to this one. I found myself with that raised eyebrow wondering "Why?" several times to what the characters did or said. Aside from that the writing is well done, engaging and entertaining. Overall the book is an enjoyable read and well worth the time spent wrapping up all the lose ends.
    • 4/5
      I was anxious to read this book, but also somewhat reluctant to start it, knowing it was the last in a series that I have enjoyed so much. And I ended up having very mixed feeling about how the author chose to conclude this saga. After so many struggles to maintain his personal ethical boundaries as a clinical psychologist, and through many interactions with his wife and best friend, Alan Gregory seemed to have lost much of his integrity by the end of the series. I was left with the sense that Stephen White must have been really sick of these characters and their lives by the time he was writing this 20th book. But even that being said, Mr. White's skill at developing the characters and their stories made it another enjoyable read, with the choices the characters made seeming natural outcomes to the current circumstances. I still have to add this series as one of my favorites, and hope that the author will employ his writing talents to bring readers more great stories.
    • 3/5
      Mixed feelings about this last book in the series. I have loved this series and it's characters for so long its sad to see it come to an end but I also think it's time. I just wish that it wasn't done with such destruction of every single relationship. This book started off very slow for me. I first I thought I was savoring it as the last and then I realized that it was because it was hard to follow (bringing in so many old storylines which honestly were not still fresh in my mind as the author obviously thought they should be). When I finally felt like I got up to speed on what was going on I was so turned off by all the negative relationships, but I plodded on. I think when Alan and Sam finally sat down and got drunk while eating Oysters (Sam? Oysters??) it finally took a turn for the better for me. However, I think the shining star in this book was Jonas - he was by far my favorite character in the book for his old soul/teacher ways. Sad to see this series and it's, just north of me, Boulder insight and main cycling character whom I've oft wondered if I shared the road.
    • 3/5
      This novel is the conclusion of the Dr. Alan Gregory series and continues where Line of Fire ends (Gregory’s wife Lauren was shot). If you haven’t read any of Stephen White’s previous books in the series, you will be lost. I have but did not read Line of Fire. So I was a little confused, but was able to follow the plot. Not exciting as his previous books, and it seems rushed and the ending disappointing.