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Ground Zero

The X-Files, Book 3

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Ground Zero

By: Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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Don't miss this thrilling audiobook in the series based on the award-winning television show The X-Files!

Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead - he's been charred to a radioactive cinder.

Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases - mysteries the FBI doesn't want solved.

When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or to Gregory, is obliterated in the New Mexico desert and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimensions of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.

©2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Scary

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If you are an X-Files fanatic like myself then you will enjoy this audio book immensely !!!!!
As ALWAYS I do NOT do spoilers or plot twists and try not to give to much of a books storyline away in reviews !!!
This is a true classic X-Files story though, dead scientists, strange occurrences, mysterious questions needing answers, & secret government tests,.....
All needing answers that can only be investigated by the amazing duo, that is FBI's Agents Fox Mulder & Dana Scully !!!!
Need too find out more,.........
Then I guess you will have to listen to the X-Files - Ground Zero audio book yourselves !!!!!
If you are a fan of The X-FILES, then regardless of the story (*although this is an EPICALY classic one !!!) Then this book is a MUST HAVE listen !!!!

Another FANTASTIC X-Files story !!! EPIC AS ALWAYS

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I have an abridged copy of this story on cassette, read by non-other than Scully herself; Gillian Anderson. But at only 2h45m in length, it's had to ignore the fact big chunks of the story are missing, so I was keen to give the whole thing a listen.

Unfortunately the differences in performances between Gillian and Patrick are also hard to ignore. Patrick Lawlor is a very clear and precise narrator, he enunciates. Every. Word. But this comes at the expense of pacing and characterisation, which are glacial and lacking personality respectively.

Listening to it at 1.2x speed helps a bit, but I still found it to be something of a slog to get through. Being an X-Files fan back in the day I'd like to continue with the rest of the series but since the other titles also have the same narrator, I'm not sure that I will.

As for the story, it's an amiable enough mystery involving the testing of an experimental nuclear weapon and the strange deaths of scientists connected to the project. The final reveal is - even by X-Files standards - a little silly, so you're more likely to be chuckling to yourself than chewing your fingernails by the end.

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I really enjoyed this book and the way it built the story to its climax.
If you are a fan of the X Files there is all the usual banter between Mulder and Scully. The characters are true to the series.
I had a couple of stories on CD before the days of Audible and love that I can now hear the rest here.

Excellent stories

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A mediocre story that relies to much on lists of real events and not enough actual story. Clearly written when Mulder & Scully were being established as characters and neither feel correct in this book. Not worth the listen.

Not very good

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The writing and performance embody the spirit of the TV show perfectly. The way the story unfolds and the portrayal and interaction of the characters make it easy to visualise this unfolding as an episode of the X Files.

Captures The Mood

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