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Bat out of Hell

An Eco Thriller

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Bat out of Hell

By: Alan Gold
Narrated by: Kristin Price
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From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern Black Death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread.

Scientist Debra Hart and her team of experts are tasked by the United Nations to stop the disease. Racing against time, they must find the cause and the cure and figure out why this deadly disease - spread by bats - is killing thousands in cities across the globe. Debra and her team will struggle to stop the disease from spreading to millions more, even if it means killing off every bat alive.

But fighting to prevent her are manic animal rights' activists who rail against species genocide, even if it means risking the deaths of human beings. And hidden behind a cloak of secrecy is a crazed academic who'll even kill top American government officials to save one living creature. This is the nightmare scenario that Debra faces as the public becomes so terrified of bats that entire communities become vigilantes.

©2015 Alan Gold (P)2015 Audible, Inc. Action & Adventure Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Medical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Vigilante Justice Crime Medicine Thriller Africa
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The story did not feel like Alan's normal writing. I have read 8 of his books because I enjoy his stories and writing style.
The female lead, although a top scientist was treated with strangely girlish fantasies. Her reaction to men just seamed odd and was out of place for a top woman scientist tasked with "saving the world".
We also don't need another book about "America saving the world"; for the most part they seem, in reality, to be detroying it.
The reader, Kristin Price, was poor. She mispronounced words, her accents were just awful and that really detracted from the story. Her English and Scottish accents were just unrecogisable.

Not Alan Gold's best. Not so good reader

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The story itself is actually not terrible, the narrator is shockingly bad, so bad that I won’t bother finishing the story. It sounds like a bad book read by Siri, dry and dull and without emotion or feeling and utterly woeful and the accents she attempts are by far the worst I have ever heard, there is nothing wrong with reading in your Native American accent even though a character may be Australian, especially if the accent is forced and not even remotely authentic. The book should be read by someone else. Sadly this will be the first audio book out of hundreds that I will not finish.

Narrator needs changing.

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