ALONE

Police sniper Bobby Dodge is called to a domestic hostage situation. When he sees the agitated husband’s finger tensing on the trigger of a handgun, Bobby fires his rifle and eliminates the threat. But Bobby quickly falls from hero to fugitive when the hostage-taker turns out to be the hot-tempered ne’er-do-well son of a powerful judge. The judge files papers accusing Dodge of conspiring to murder his son. Bobby soon has to ask himself if Catherine Gagnon, the beautiful young widow, is the most tragic person in Boston or the most dangerous. Holter Graham is a relatively new name to audiobooks, but the young film actor was an excellent choice to read the abridgment of Gardner’s thriller, giving it a taut, sexy edginess. ALONE is devastatingly good, a steamy, fast-paced search for truth and integrity in a jaded world. S.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 05]