The Big Bout

A Jimmy "Soldier" Riley Noir Novel

By: Michael Lister

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Picking up right at the thrilling conclusion of "The Big Hello," "The Big Bout" finds Soldier working two new cases and taking care of his friends in wartime Panama City. He and Clip are protecting a boxer whose life is being threatened before his big bout, and he's trying to solve a baffling murder -- all while taking care of the woman he loves.

The Thrilling 4th novel in the noir series that began with THE BIG GOODBYE . . . History. Mystery. Romance. Action. Thrills. Suspense. Noir.

Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister’s resonant new noir series Publisher’s Weekly calls “a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida,” and Library Journal says “peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read.”

“Lister’s hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction.” Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review

“Michael Lister writes some of the best hard-boiled prose going. Nothing short of amazing!” Booklist Starred Review

“Michael Lister has the world of Florida Panhandle noir all to himself. Tough, violent, and hard-boiled, This novel of obsession and suspense will remind you of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and why you started reading crime novels in the first place.” John Dufresne

Virtual voice is a problem

Virtual voice doesn’t sound like a machine. Initially, it sounds surprisingly ok. However, it soon becomes astoundingly boring. Then, it becomes perhaps… maddening. I don’t think I can listen to virtual voice again. It is soulless. It is dead. It is frightening.

I’ll need to read this book. I think it might be good. If I were the author, I’d demand it be narrated by a living human.