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The First Lady

One secret can bring down a government

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The First Lady

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Deborah McBride
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The First Lady by James Patterson, read by Deborah McBride.

A President's affair to remember soon becomes a nightmare he wishes he could forget in James Patterson's gripping new stand-alone thriller.

As he steps out of his hotel in Atlanta with the love of his life, the last thing President Tucker expects is to be greeted by the flashing cameras of the media. Or for his affair to be revealed to the world.

The President must act to stop the scandal from spiralling out of control, just weeks before the vote for a second term. But not before he figures out how to keep the First Lady on his side.

Grace Tucker, however, has other plans.

Betrayed and deeply hurt, she heads for a safe haven outside the capital. But when her security detail loses all trace of her, all hell breaks loose.

The First Lady is missing. Did she run away? Or is she in more danger than they could have imagined...

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Great story and was hard to stop listening to. Great suspense and kept me listening.

Great Story.

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to start with I did not think I would get through this book, the narration was a bit stilted. but I gave it time and the need to hear what was going to happen next meant I could not stop listening. great story

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The narrator is terrible. Nasally drawling high pitched yanky accent. ugh! Almost made me want to stop listening to it in the first few minutes but I hung on and listened to the story which was completely totally predictable and boring but I finished it to the end anyway.

But ... in fairness to the narrator and the book I have just finished listening to all of the Gray Man series which was so fabulously narrated and exciting and nail bitingly suspenseful I think that any book after that would be a very hard act to follow! So I am not going to return it. I will keep it because I could have stopped listening in the beginning and returned it but I listened to the end... really, to see if it would get any better. Sadly it didn't.



Terrible narration - predictable boring story

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I was looking for a guaranteed good read and unfortunately James Patterson let me down on this one. None of the characters were endearing, the plot was simplistic and largely predictable. This was not helped by monotone narration. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this book more as a paperback rather than an audiobook.

What a disappointment

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