Executive Intent

A Novel

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: William Dufris

“For fictional thrill rides on the printed page, get on board with the novels of Dale Brown.”
—New York Newsday

The incomparable Dale Brown (“The best military writer in the country” —Clive Cussler) roars back at full throttle with Executive Intent. The perennial New York Times bestselling master delivers another action-packed tale of international intrigue and technological weaponry that pits the world’s superpowers in a terrifying contest for dominance of outer space and the Earth’s oceans. Vince Flynn and Brad Thor fans will flock to the man whose electrifying visions of near-future warfare remain the gold standard of the techno-thriller genre. Executive Intent is Dale Brown at his best.

Just Like Dale

The book was great. The narrator needs to learn in this Country it is Missile not Mis sile. But all and all fantastic job by Mr. Brown.

Good story overall BUT no one would care if China invaded Somalia

The pace of the story and sub plots all good. The premise of the story that the US would give two fu%&$ if China, or anyone else for that matter, attacked/invaded Somalia is simply untethered to reality.

Flawed

While listening to this novel; I couldn't help but wonder if the author had a vote on the narrator of his book. While this is an interesting enough book; I found Mr. Dufris's performance frequently grating. His performance of the female parts; especially the Secretary of State came off as a bad impression of the "Golden Girls" character Blanche Devereaux. I almost stopped listening to this book because of this character. Thankfully that character doesn't play a large part through out the book.
Mr. Dufris attempts to play different characters with different voices was flawed by an affectation in the way he pronounces the word missile. Mr. Dufris pronounces that word as "miss sile" it's very irritating to here all the characters in the book no matter what their nationality or sex saying that word in this highly affected way.
Another problem was other technical jargon in the book; the narrator apparently didn't do any homework to learn how to saw the names and never got a ships displacement correct. Instead of referring to a ships displacement as thousands of tons; he always would say "100,000 pound. Not a big deal I suppose; but for someone who makes a living this way, this was a sloppy job.
I will be careful to avoid books narrated by this performer in the future. My enjoyment of this book was adversely affected by Mr. Dufris.

Good but distracting

Why does he pronounce missiles as: missiiiles? Distracting. All through the book but not past ones.

Eh

Very slow and boring not sure what happened compared to the rest of his novels . Starting to regret I wasted a credit on the novel.