AMOK

A Dox Thriller

By: Barry Eisler

Narrated by: Barry Eisler

When the government offers a twenty-six-year-old former Marine a five-figure payday, there’s only one question: Who does he have to kill?

1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end.

Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to his family’s troubles. But secret wars are never what they’re billed to be, and Dox is about to get the education of his young life. Among the lessons—the only thing more dangerous than war is falling in love with your enemy.

©2022 Barry Eisler (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Last seen in 2021’s The Chaos Kind, former Marine sniper Dox, a supporting character in bestseller Eisler’s John Rain and Livia Lone franchises, takes center stage…The speedy pace and skillful scene-setting remain Eisler trademarks.”—Publishers Weekly

“The heart and soul of Amok make it much more than a simple story of guns and violence and transcends it to an emotional tale packing quite a punch.”—Best Thriller Books

Was hard to get interested in.

I almost sent the book back twice. The first part of this book took way to long to get to the really story. It finally kept my interest by chapter 20. It ended up be a pretty good book and I liked the author being the narrator.

Barry Eisler at his best.

One of Barry Eisler's best. The story The characters the performance are all top notch.

Could’ve been less, but it was more

Some of the detail weenies have noted a couple inconsistencies in references made between those story and some of Eisler’s others. I’m here to say it matters not. This is a beautiful tail of love and responsibility. With just the right pacing and action. The layers added to Dox’s character via this tome, are …fulfilling. A very worthy read.

Love Dox enjoyed it.

Big fan of Dox, so a story about his background worth a credit to me. My favorite is when Mr. Baldacci puts all his bad ass characters together.

Dox

Good background and story...well narrated! Good lesson in history and of the USA in SNAFU.