Twisted Reasons

By: Geza Tatrallyay

Narrated by: Brad Holbrook

Twisted Reasons, the first in a trilogy of international thrillers based on arms and human trafficking from a modern "rogue" Russian state, is the tale of two college friends who get drawn into the heist of nuclear material from a former Soviet site.

Arriving in Vienna to find that his friend Adam Kallay, an official at the International Atomic Energy Agency, is presumed dead, crime novelist Greg Martens teams up with Interpol Agent Anne Rossiter and Julia, Kallay’s Russian girlfriend, to solve the case and track the disappearance from a former Soviet nuclear site of enough uranium to make a bomb.

The story moves from espionage entrepot Vienna to radioactivity contaminated Chelyabinsk and to front-line Georgia, as the three combat arms merchants allied to Russian secret police to prevent the stolen uranium from getting into the wrong hands. Along the way, Greg learns brutal truths about himself and his family.

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Old Friends and New Mysteries

A writer travels to eastern Europe and becomes embroiled in mystery and danger in this story about stolen nuclear materials, the Stalinist nuclear bomb program and a terrorist plot.
This story kept me on the edge of my seat most of the way through. It has a lot of graphic brutality including murder and rape but they aren't gratuitous and the story, turning on the hero's friendship with and concern for an old school buddy is well written and impeccably plotted.
It's definitely not light reading, but this one was well worth the time.
Narration is well done with convincing voices using several accents.