Hollowpoint

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

There was a time when Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti pursued his job with vigor and a certain glee. He sent hundreds of perps upstate and commanded the respect of the tough Brooklyn cops whose investigations he steered. Now he mostly thinks about his next drink and the girl he can persuade to share it with him. A hand has reached into his chest and removed something that made the whole machine run.

She was five years old, and her name was Opal.

Over the course of one impossibly hot August, Gio’s life comes apart. It’s been a year since his daughter died, but the loss carves away at him still. A case much like others crosses his desk: young girl, dead from a gunshot wound, crackhead mother, very guilty looking boyfriend. Something in this ordinary if tawdry case uncovers a vast well of grief and rage in him, and it’s unclear who will be the target of his urge to avenge a pointless death. His steely associate, Stacey - with whom he shares his bed but nothing more - watches with alarm as he lurches toward an act that could prove to be destruction or redemption. He’s badly in need of one of them.
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: Rob Reuland
Narrator: David Colacci
ISBN: 1597103683
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Julius Caesar

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Julius Caesar

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.

Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caesar, ‘the colossus’.

Revitalised, original, and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Full Cast Production
ISBN: 0563553540
Download Price: $18.99

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