The Man Who Used the Universe

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Paul Ansdell

No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies - the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won't have to wait long to find out.

©2014 Alan Dean Foster (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Loved this stand alone

Alan writes great series..but I enjoy his stand alone stuff, and this is no different!

aliens are Scottish?

Good story, nice arc. but the Scottish accents threw me off in a way that surprised me.

one of my favorite book by Alan Dean Foster

one of my favorite book by Alan Dean Foster and Paul Ansdell do a good job for narrative.

A great, solid sci-fi story ahead of its time.

This would make an excellent, dramatic sci-fi series in the right hands.
The aliens, architecture and futuristic societies paints an intriguing concept that would look amazing on the contemporary tv screen.

Idolized this book in paper in the 80's

Well, I absolutely loved the paperback version of this that I bought from the bookstore in the eighties. To this day, i have quoted the ending on how cool it was that the main character did as the title states. I check back on audible for old favorites and pick them up when audio formatted to listen on my commute.

I know it was a long time ago. I know it was a paper medium. I know I was a different person back then.
But.,,,
This book was super slow burn. I also do not believe the narrator was right, though he did a great job with voices and such. Mostly the writing is very different than what you typically see for a story nowadays. The author has successfully written tons of books.
Just go into it, that it is a slow book, and mostly, I don't want to say "cerebral" but kind of like that, since it is not an intellectual type novel either. I think if it would be contemparily written, it would be quite different.

Enjoyable, glad I was able to re-read this one.