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  • The Misadventures of Max Bowman, Book 1
  • By: Joel Canfield
  • Narrated by: George Kuch
  • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)
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By: Joel Canfield
Narrated by: George Kuch
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Summary

First Lieutenant Robert Davidson. The son of an American military legend and a war hero who died in combat during the Afghanistan conflict.

Or did he?

The answer could bring down a secret military empire - as well as a guy named Max Bowman.

Max is a rude, crude and rapidly aging ex-CIA desk jockey who gets the job of tracking down the truth about Davidson - but his chances of actually discovering it are about half of that of finding a horse wearing a kimono. What Max doesn't know is that nobody wants the facts - and nobody expects Max to find them.

But Max has to pay the rent. So he takes on the job, which takes him on a road trip into the heart of America's darkness as well as his own, where he has to deal with exploding homes, brutal murders, a sexy heiress, a misguided teenager and Max's girlfriend back home, who's cursing him out on a regular basis.

And, oh yeah, a para-military organization that's just waiting for the right moment to kill him.

It all happens in Dark Sky, a sardonic and suspenseful mystery-thriller in which an underwhelming hero must confront an overwhelming conspiracy - not to mention himself.

This is the first book in the Max Bowman series.

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Old men should stop wars not start them.

Firstly, a confession. George Kuch is one a my most preferred narrators, especially when the story calls for an older man to tell the story in the first person. He has the knack of being able to talk straight to the reader as if he were right there, confidentially including them in his explanations (see also the excellent Lady Justice series). It was because he was reading this book, and it was written in a preferred genre, that I purchased this book. And I am so glad that I did. The narration was as good as expected - intimately real, with passion seeping through at appropriate places, a dogged recalling of thought and feelings as well as actions, the grouchy cynicism leaking out through the sarcasm and self loathing so expertly portrayed - and the story itself well written, different from the usual hard bitten, rather clever PIs.

In fact, Max Bowman isn't a P.I.at all. He's a nearing sixty years old, retired, not very good CIA agent, (desk duries), who'd been subsidizing his income by occasionally doing odd jobs looking fkr , mostly, missing persons, for an old but still current CIA buddy, Howard. But Howard denied sending him the latest client, a weird looking man who was paying him an huge sum of money to look for a celebrated war hero everyone knew was dead.

Great story filled with question marks and tension, rather than full action scenes, though those are there, too. Good characterisation of the leading protagonists combined with colourful characters and the ongoing mystery. And funny, sometimes laugh out loud funny. Strangely, for all of it's wierdness, it felt very plausible. Great narration, too, ofcourse-- I loved this book. Highly recommended.

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