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Blindfold Game

by Dana Stabenow
Bernadette Dunne
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In Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly easy, and the ship sails east, toward the western coast of North America.
In Washington, D.C., a CIA analyst has been hearing rumors about the sale of radioactive material and military equipment on the black market in deep Russia but can't get it confirmed.
The analyst, Hugh Rincon, originally from Alaska and more keenly aware than most in Washington of Alaska's vulnerability with its air force base and proximity to the Far East, begins to piece it all together. He can't get anyone to take him seriously, however, least of all the director of the CIA.
Then Hugh learns that his estranged wife, Sarah Lange, is second in command on the Sojourner Truth in the Bering Sea at the heart of the potential conflict. And the chase is on.
The first stand-alone thriller from the pen of Dana Stabenow, Edgar® Award-winning author of seventeen crime novels, delivers a nail-biting, action-packed read, international in scope and chillingly real.

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    December 27, 2005

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739353882
      • File size: 275073 KB
      • Duration: 09:33:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This tale of terror on the high seas will send shivers up the spine. Narrator Bernadette Dunne juggles accents and genders with style. Riveting passages describing torture will have listeners cringing in horror. Dunne's urgent tone piles on the tension as this adventure plunges into icy waters off Alaska's coast. Listeners should take special note of the scenes between an estranged couple brought together to prevent a terrorist attack. The CIA is well represented, as one might expect, but the heroes of this drama are the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard, who let nothing impede them from carrying out their commitment to keep our shores secure. R.O. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 28, 2005
      Edgar winner Stabenow makes a strong entrance into the world of international thrillers with this fast-paced story. CIA analyst Hugh Rincon and his estranged wife, Sarah Lange, second in command of the Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth, must battle disbelieving superiors, North Korean terrorists and an angry Mother Nature as they race to stop a dirty bomb from exploding in an Alaskan city. Beth McDonald gives an earnest performance and provides each of her characters with their own distinct voice. Whether portraying a tough as nails sea captain or a Korean terrorist, she keeps her voice shifts subtle and believable, never falling into caricature. She is especially adept in her reading of the book's seagoing action as Lange and her crew chase down and confront an enemy freighter on a stomach-churning stormy sea. McDonald is helped by Steve Atinsky's fine abridgment. Given the complexity of thrillers, it is true skill to keep the abridgment process from truncating characters and plot to the point of incomprehension. Both Atinsky and McDonald have been able to keep intact the novel's integrity-and thrills. Simultaneous release with the St. Martin's hardcover. (Reviews, Oct. 17).

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Stabenow's 9/11 spin-off posits a dirty bomb attack by mercenaries who are headed to Alaska aboard a Russian fishing boat. Alaska-native Stabenow delivers a predictable plot involving married heroes Hugh Rincon, a CIA agent, and Sarah Lange, a Coast Guard commander assigned to patrol the U.S. border in the Bering Sea. Beth McDonald's narration leaves you wondering if the story would be better read by a man since most of the characters are men. Her delivery of some of the male character voices sounds inappropriately arrogant. McDonald also lacks dramatic flair. She doesn't get excited until the final scenes, which, even in the abridged version, is too long to wait. D.J.M. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 17, 2005
      Known for two successful Alaskan mystery series (featuring Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell respectively), Edgar-winner Stabenow (Fire and Ice
      ) has crafted a taut, credible thriller that should win her a much larger audience. Opposing resourceful, ruthless and well-funded terrorists ready to bring unimaginable devastation to American shores are a husband-and-wife team: Hugh Rincon, a Langley-based CIA honcho, and Sara Lange, the executive officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth
      , which patrols the Maritime Boundary Line in the northern Pacific Ocean. Globe-hopping action moves from Thailand to Hong Kong, Korea and Russia, culminating in a naval showdown off the Alaskan coast. The author's depictions of the Alaskan environment, its seas, storms and cold, have never been more vivid, while the sea and air operations she recounts are both heroic and enthralling. Stabenow has established herself as a fine mystery writer, but she may have found her true metier with this excellent thriller. Author tour.

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