Steel Fear: A Thriller

By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann

Narrated by: Aaron Radl

The moment Navy SEAL sniper Finn sets foot on the USS Abraham Lincolnto hitch a ride home from the Persian Gulf, it’s clear something is deeply wrong. Leadership is weak. Morale is low. And when crew members start disappearing one by one, what at first seems like a random string of suicides soon reveals something far more sinister: There’s a serial killer on board. Suspicion falls on Finn, the newcomer to the ship. After all, he’s being sent home in disgrace, recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong. He’s also a lone wolf, haunted by gaps in his memory and the elusive sense that something he missed may have contributed to civilian deaths on his last assignment. Finding the killer offers a chance at redemption . . . if he can stay alive long enough to prove it isn’t him.

©2021 Brandon Webb & John David Mann (P)2022 Brandon Webb & John David Mann

Great story horrible narration

The narrator absolutely destroyed this book. Would have loved to give this book 5 stars and the story is certainly worth reading but the audio book is horrendous.

Good story not great presentation.

Narrator needs more experience? Too fast and too many mispronunciations. Story was not bad. Maybe too many characters for my taste.

Terrible narration

Story was mildly entertaining but the narrator seemed out of sync with the text, mispronounced words and had a nasal voice that was hard to listen to.

Reader ruins story

Do NOT let this reader near an Audible microphone again! Mispronounced numerous common words; read faster than he could pronounce clearly in a lame attempt to build excitement; does not know dialog inflections. Story was reasonably good.

Narrator detracted from story

I had difficulty keeping up with the story because the narrator detracted. This is the first time I’ve heard a narrator so poorly prepared to read a story. I’m shocked someone didn’t hear all his mispronunciations, mis-timed sentences and too quickly paced reading. He didn’t follow the punctuation of the story, didn’t seem to know the words he was reading. There were too many mispronunciations to remember and recount here. It’s really unfortunate as I read this book in hard copy first and wanted to enjoy the audible version. My advice to the authors/producers of future books is to listen to the narrator reading before the whole book is completed and produced.