Even

By: Andrew Grant

Narrated by: John Lee

David Trevellyan, a Royal Navy intelligence operative, takes a late-night walk to his New York City hotel. A huddled shape in an alley catches his eye - a homeless man has been shot to death. Trevellyan steps forward and a cop car arrives. A split second too late, Trevellyan realizes he's been set up. Obliged to clear his name, and with no idea who's a friend and who's a foe, he penetrates deep into a huge international conspiracy.

The price of failure will be death, and the reward for success will be redemption, both for himself and the huddled corpse from the alley.

©2009 Andrew Grant (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Modern noir at its best.... Even is brilliantly plotted and smart, and delivers the bone-jarring kick of a .45. Here's hoping author Grant is hard at work on the next installment featuring his thoroughly compelling tough guy hero, David Trevellyan." (Jeffery Deaver)

hardboiled throw back to Dashiel Hammet

I enjoy this genere so I liked this book, I think the narrator could have done the surrounding characters voices a bit better but in any event it made my commute breeze by a bit quicker. Give it a try

Remarkably ok

I listened to this because I’ve listened to all the Reacher novels. It clearly has similarities that are sometimes a little to “on the nose”. I felt the story was too simple at times with the protagonist just escaping. The plot seemed to wander at times to me. The reader was a bit detracting to the story with his presentation of the other characters. Overall. It was very meh.

Superb for a first book!

This stands by itself as a worthy read/listen, and I'd recommend it is own merits. However, if you're also a Jack Reacher fan, you'll love the similarities -- almost as if David Trevellyan were Reacher's own brother. You'll also noticed some stylistic similarities as well, but I'm not going to point them out because I don't want Andrew to change anything in the future.

The plot was good, and I quite enjoyed how it all began, including the cocky confidence that David showed right off the bat. There were a few "pacing" issues in the middle where I was hoping we could fast forward, but these were minor. Overall, well-constructed and beautiful character building of the "bad guys," which I won't go into so as to avoid any spoilers.

Recommended! I'm off to the sequel...

The lead character

It took a bit to get into the story, but I enjoyed it. The first novel I’ve read by the author.

I liked the plot. it was suspenseful

I liked the character since he was similar to jack reacher
I like that type of confidence in a main character