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The Promised Land

By: David Hewson
Narrated by: William Hope
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 Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over 20 years, following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of the tragedy and has never been able to say with certainty that he didn't do it - except he cannot imagine why on earth he would have killed his beloved family.

Unexpectedly released moments before his execution, he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who is seeking answers to her own troubled past and the death of her mother on that same day in 1983.

Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death, the pair embark on a dangerous race against time to uncover the real truth about the events of that fateful day...

©2007 David Hewson (P)2007 WF Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Crime Marriage

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I really enjoyed this book and will listen to more from this author. It makes such a difference to have a good narrator.

good story and good narration

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Read the reviews and thought i'd leave this one because i didn't agree with some points the other readers raised. Personally i liked the narrator's voice it was perfect for the main protaganist. I didn't think it was a slow start; the whole idea of the book is that you really like the main character but , and he's not sure of his innocence himself, you wonder through out if he really did do the horrible things everyone thinks he did. To build up that kind of uncertainty you need to do quite a lot of meandering. Meandering makes it sound like a boring listen but each meander is quite action packed and exciting so the book is far from dull. Also I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned this, the book is funny, with well written characters and dialogue. In it's way it is very suspenseful

loved this book!

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Promised Land has a really interesting structure - beginning with an execution situation (death row) that drew me in, and then following the protagonist closely every hour of the day. But what was so brilliant, was Hewson's writing, which made the personalities of the main character and his companion so convincing,and their experiences over the few days of the unfolding plot, Utterly compelling. The calm,passive life world of Biers, and his sardonic wit and weary cynicism, were brought out by details - opening a new style of beer can - and I was on his side from the start! I listened to it, ....and listened to it again straight away, it was so good!

utterly brilliant!

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I enjoyed this book immensely. It took a little time to get into as I had to get used to the narrator's accent but then I was hooked.There is a lot of very droll humour as well as twists and turns galore.The huge leaps forward in technology we take foregranted over the past twenty years are very obvious when we see them through the eyes of a 'dinosaur' who has been in prison as the rest of the world moved ahead without him. Thanks to this technology I was listening into the early hours as I HAD to know 'who dunnit'.Loved it.

compulsive listening

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Imagine Harrison Ford at 50, emerging from prison, in a fictional movie role of course, and some well plotted scripting- and you have this novel.
You can see why the author was selected to write the novels based on the fine TV scripts that became "The Killing" series. His characterizations are just fine and none of the dialogue is less than convincing..if a bit too familiar. Doesn't matter. It's a jolly ride. Having been a long time fan of his earlier work too, I was interested to see how much of the violence and obscene language is absent. New editors? New audience?

Terrific "fluff."

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