The Old Man

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

A finalist for the Barry Award for Best Thriller

To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run.

Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them. Just as he had begun to think himself finally safe, Chase must reawaken his survival instincts to contend with the history he has spent his adult life trying to escape.

Armed mercenaries, spectacularly crashed cars, a precarious love interest, and an unforgettable chase scene through the snow—this is lethal plotting from one of the best in crime fiction.

©2017 Thomas Perry (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Macho nonsense

Maybe the TV series is better. The trailer certainly looked tempting, but the book itself is full of macho BS and wishful thinking. The narrator is a bad choice who makes everything sound exaggerated and unrealistic. The story is a basic one with trite conversation, and full of unnecessary details that are just fillers or place holders.
Is possible that the narrator made me hate it more than I would have if had read an actual book, but most of the issues with the story still wouldn't have disappeared.
I wanted to return it early on but probably in my library to long before I started it. So I kept skipping on a vain hope that the bad romance and nonsense action world get better but it didn't.
I can't recommended it.