THE JUDAS STRAIN

There's a smorgasbord of accents and characters in this thriller, and without straining his voice at all Peter Jay Fernandez handles each one credibly. From a young Marco Polo (in a flashback) to a Malaysian mother, Fernandez keeps listeners spellbound as he adroitly maneuvers through this familiar but still engaging plot. The covert Sigma Force team returns in another adventure, this time to combat the re-emergence of an ancient and deadly plague that killed one-third of the world's population in the thirteenth century. Part of the plot strains credulity, but with Fernandez's glib reading there's little reason or time to complain. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 07/ JAN 08]