The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man

Book 1 of the Repo Man Series

By: W. Bruce Cameron

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now Kalkaska, Michigan’s full-time repo man and part-time bar bouncer. His best friend is his low-energy Basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing a voice in his head. The voice introduces himself as Alan Lottner, a dead realtor. Ruddy isn’t sure if Alan is real, or if he’s losing his mind. To complicate matters, it turns out Katie, the girl he’s fallen for, is Alan’s daughter.

When Alan demands Ruddy find his murderers, Ruddy decides a voice in your head seeking vengeance is best ignored. When Alan also demands he clean up his act, and apartment, Ruddy tells him to back off, but where can a voice in your head go? With a sweet romance, a murder mystery, a lazy but loyal dog, and a town full of cabin-fevered characters you can’t help but love, New York Times best-selling novelist W. Bruce Cameron’s The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, yet another laugh-out-loud, keep-you-up-late, irresistible listen.

©2014 W. Bruce Cameron (P)2014 Macmillan Audio

Enjoyable contemporary fantasy mystery

Perfect entertainment - interesting plot with dimensional characters, and a bit of humor. I really enjoyed this narrator's presentation of the characters. The story is very good, well done, and this book is perfect for listening to while doing something else.

Frustrating but okay

Revising my initial review...
This book really tried my patience. It has a very clever premise and some great characters, but it's a shaky plot led by a protagonist who is at times competent and capable and other times frustratingly dimwitted. It seems the author's only device for charting out the "arc" of this story was to employ stupidity. Some might find it comic when characters and plot are sidetracked by murphy's law, and I can tolerate it in moderation. But I had to put this one down a few times and almost gave up on finishing it. In the end, I returned and found it wasn't so frustrating that I couldn't finish and get some closure. But wow, I don't think I'd sign up for the sequel.

A fun story given a good performance

Ypu might expect there to be more dogs in a book by W. Bruce Cameron, but this one is more about people with a guest appearance by one charming dog. What's good about the story is the ever moving, intervening threads that keep things churning. it takes a while to feel good about some of the characters, but they do liven things up.

Well worth it

Sometimes you just want a fun book that's checks all the boxes and that's what this book does. Funny, charming, and even clever with a good plot. I highly recommend it.

Slow start... Then suddenly I was hooked!

I grew to love the characters & story. A fun suspenseful read. Twisted & turned, the ending change & changed.