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Working Stiffs
- Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
American Book Fest 2017 Science Fiction Finalist
Joe Warren, an unemployed electrical engineer, has a terminally ill girlfriend and a bank account bumping rock bottom. Jobs are scarce in 2050, since nanotechnology has created the ability to animate the recently deceased, who are put to work performing menial labor at low wages. These Revivants have glutted the job market, leaving their living counterparts out in the cold.
Joe goes looking for a helping hand and mistakenly gets arrested with a group of freedom fighters. The only cause Joe wants to fight for is Joe, but federal agents coerce him into spying on the Children of Liberty.
When Joe reluctantly infiltrates the protest group, he finds something he never expected or wanted. Friends. And he discovers that maybe there are things in life worth fighting - and dying - for.
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- Terence Thirteen
- 14-03-18
BELL's BEST
A brilliantly written dystopian thriller, set in a future that, except for the presence of neo-zombie Revivants, bears a disturbing resemblance to America, today. (Then again, many people do wonder through the workweek and their workplaces, as if in a zombie-like state...)
The author definitely has "a way with words" and successfully weaves dry wit, sarcasm, black comedy and a never-ending stream of snide comments and wisecracks, into an immensely entertaining and engaging story.
J. Scott Bennett was the absolute best choice, as narrator. He delivers...
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- Norma Miles
- 04-09-18
Spells trouble, with a capital 'Oh, sh*t.'
America, 2051. Joe Warren and his live-in girlfriend had queued so long at the hospital, they nearly missed the appointment to hear her test result for which she'd already waited for six months. It wasn't good. She didn't have long to live and treatment was unlikely to be successful - now, if she'd only started treatment some months ago! Desperate for money, with no job, debts to pay and denied dole because his papers were muddled, Joe plans a perfect robbery. If only he'd known that one thing about Revivants...
Related in the first person by Joe, the black humoured story takes place in a futuristic but only slightly distorted world where the few rich citizens have seperated even further from everyone else, especially since the introduction of the zombie-like free labour force of people, dead or nearly so, reanimated by nanode injections. Initially very funny, the book turns into a quirky thriller as Joe finds himself ever more involved with the protest group, the Children of Liberty.
Narration by J.Scott Benett is, as always, superb, his pleasant to hear voice perfectly mirroring Joe's attitudes and misadventures as he struggles through the situations in which he finds himself. A great reinterpretation of the zombie genre, with good characterisation, observations on the downward spiral of society and often very funny.
A definite recommendation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-02-20
Pulp fun
An enjoyable fast paced story set in a dystopian America, which sets a fanatic homeland agent against a man who through circumstance is desperate and finds himself attempting to commit a crime. Just to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and being used by a system which already has him downtrodden.
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- victoria macdonalf
- 27-03-18
Truly terrible
Awful narration, very little content just sounds like some druggy rambling. couldn't listen to the end.
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