The Pieces of the Puzzle

By: Robert Stanek

Narrated by: uncredited

With The Pieces of the Puzzle, Robert Stanek masterfully creates an intelligent thriller that weaves the excitement and intrigue of a sophisticated mystery with the fascinating secret world of international espionage. The leader of a special operations unit returns home after a mission gone terribly wrong to find himself a wanted man.

Through his former boss he discovers his wife and unborn child are in danger. He must return and cooperate to ensure their safety. Little does he know he is getting pulled deeper and deeper into a decades old conspiracy led by a clandestine group within the government.Soon, the former agent Scott Evers finds an unlikely ally and the duo must work together to unravel the scattered clues that will lead them to the mastermind behind everything that's happening.

©2005 Robert Stanek (P)2005 Reagent Press

not good

I do not know if Stanek narrated this himself to save money, but he read it as if he was being charged by the minute for studio time. Once he calmed down it was not as bad, but still not good. The story itself wasn not bad, but it was written like a formula, as if he had read a book on "how to write espionage". It seemed very poorly planned, and never really came together well. Things seemed to be left hanging, and the main character seemed to be the only one who knew what was going on, but the author never explained it to the reader...or his narration was just so distracting that I did not pick it up. Overall, I did not get anything out of this book, but I am not going to listen to it again to get what I missed. Hopefully if he is planning another installment (this being "A Scott Evers Thriller", I assume he is) he will get someone to read for him, and he will manage to complete a thought in his writing. I would not recommend this book.

first bad review

Wasn't thrilled with the plot and didn't like the narrator almost felt like he talked to fast can't put my finger on it. I am very easily entertained but can say i liked this book.

A must not listen...

There are readings and there are performances - this book was the former. The mono tone fast read was the same internal voice I use to read a newspaper and distracted me from what I think was a very good story. If you like the performance as much as the book - grab anything with Scott Brick!

Great reda, bad listen

The narrator sounds like a high schooler asked to read to the class: bad cadence, no inflection, hurried. The material itself seems very good, so I think I'm going to read this one, instead.

Mediocre

The story was good to average. The ending was flat. The reader however was simply awful! He read too fast and in a virtual monotone. A grade school reader has more pause and inflection than this reader. Perhaps that made the plot less enjoyable.