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Television and Broadway standouts Marsha Mason, Bruce Davison, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Amy Pietz join forces to play ten characters in four skits in this perennial Neil Simon favorite. The action and laughs may all take place in various rooms of a fancy Beverly Hills hotel but the accents and attitude are all very much East Coast. There's wonderful moment in the opening sketch... Read More
What fun to be back in 1950s Los Angeles with Philip Marlowe as imagined by Benjamin Black, aka acclaimed Irish author John Banville. Dennis Boutsikaris narrates with marvelous aplomb. In this new take on Raymond Chandler’s iconic P.I., he meets a cool blonde and acquires a dangerous case. She walks in one hot summer day and asks Marlowe to find her vanished boyfriend. Marlowe... Read More
Clive Davis--Harvard Law School alumnus, former Columbia Records president, and founder of both the Arista and "J" record labels-- provides a lackluster and monotone narration of his memoir of his business career. Davis presents himself as an imperious egotist whose legal and business capabilities somehow assisted him in developing "golden ears," which helped him build the... Read More
In a story so full of plot twists, intrigue, danger, and violent death as to top any bestseller list, O’Donnell recounts the true story of a U.S. mission to sabotage a critical Nazi supply route in the Italian Alps. Dennis Boutsikaris presents the journalistic account in the way it was written—as a James Bond thriller. His rapid-fire delivery of military operations alternates... Read More
Patterson has outdone himself with his latest edge-of-your-seat audiobook. Ben Blaine, the demanding, downright cruel patriarch of a Martha's Vineyard family, is found dead at the edge of a cliff on his property. Police have no shortage of suspects since so many wanted him dead. But it is his prodigal son, Adam, who must figure out why his father cut his mother out of his will... Read More
Leo Demidov knows a few truths about himself: He is, at heart, a detective in Russia’s secret police, and he skillfully knows how to elicit information from his subjects. But when a family trip goes horribly wrong, his life is suddenly changed in every conceivable way. Methodically, an emotionally spent Leo seeks answers. Smith’s well-paced thriller winds its way over... Read More
John Grisham has the legal thriller down pat, and his audiobooks are often enhanced by the performance of narrator Dennis Boutsikaris. As he has done in other Grisham novels, Boutsikaris lends a touch of whimsy to the process that lets the listener know that everything is going to work out. He makes a good book even better. This story begins with a burned-out lawyer who jumps... Read More
Dennis Boutsikaris executes this production with a matter-of-fact tone that works to emphasize the surrealism that permeates Perrotta’s novel. In a single day, a Rapture-like event has occurred, and those who remain on earth are left to battle the daily challenges of life (bills, school, health, etc.) despite the impact of the large-scale loss. Through several points of view,... Read More
This full-cast performance of the tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS (think director’s cut) is one of the most mesmerizing audio experiences ever. Suppose all the gods and demons, trolls and imps that were ever carried here in imagination are still all around us, pumping gas, playing shell games, running funeral homes, and plotting war against our new gods... Read More
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden announces his intention to destroy an American city, via a stolen nuclear device. CIA operative Brooke Chandler thinks the threat is a feint and that the real attack will occur in Israel. Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris keeps the tension high as Chandler investigates his suspicions and subtly delivers the... Read More
Dennis Boutsikaris moves flawlessly through three different narrative lines in this audiobook without confusing the listener or mixing up points of view or speaking patterns. The author weaves the real-life stories of a corrupt cop, a wrongly accused African-American, and a gang leader turned Black Panther activist who live in New York City in the 1960s. His goal is to examine... Read More
The story of Enron’s rise and fall is one of innovation betrayed by arrogance and intelligence subverted by greed. Dennis Boutsikaris narrates as if he’d been there. His voice is pleasant, and he mostly keeps a good pace though that makes some complicated business and financial matters go by rather quickly. He ably uses patterns of inflection and intonation, especially a... Read More
Having the youthful-sounding Dennis Boutsikaris narrate a book written by an older man is an interesting production choice. Philip Roth wrestles with some of the more harrowing themes of aging in his recent work. The story is told from the perspective of a 23-year-old man who is weathering a polio epidemic in 1943. But it is clearly coming from the wisdom and perspective of one... Read More
This vintage Stephen King is as exciting now as it was 30 years ago when he wrote it. Even if you read it then, listen to this spectacular rendering from Dennis Boutsikaris—it recaptures all the excitement in a whole new way. Boutsikaris flawlessly delivers the atmosphere and pacing of which King is a true master. His narration perfectly portrays the struggles of 8-year-old... Read More
A bus pulls up to the sidewalk, and as the doors open, an arc of electricity flashes, leaving behind burns, blood, melted steel, and devastation. An elevator stalls, and when a passenger presses the call button, he and other passengers are burnt by another flash. Someone is using the power grid—the electrical infrastructure of the entire Northeast—to hold New York City hostage.... Read More
Dennis Boutsikaris is an excellent choice to deliver Richard Doetsch's thriller. The listener follows protagonist Nick Quinn as he travels back through one day, an hour at a time, attempting to alter events and ultimately prevent his wife's death. This tautly written story reveals its twists and clues in sixty-minute segments as Quinn makes advances and mistakes in his race... Read More
In a sea of direct quotes, supported by the authors' comments and opinions, GAME CHANGE reprises the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. The hundreds of intimate conversations among candidates and aides—some of them during phone calls—must have been recorded, because no mere human could remember such details. The incessant leaps from camp to camp and state to state... Read More
Dennis Boutsikaris’s strong American accent suits this story of U.S. entanglement in Afghanistan after 9/11, written by a member of the Special Forces. Boutsikaris’s clear and brisk tone, at times somewhat biting, also fits Stanton’s analysis of how the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan. The quick pace of the narration allows the listener to feel some of the exhaustion the soldiers... Read More
Smith’s first novel, CHILD 44 (2008), was long-listed for the Booker Prize. This second novel in his planned trilogy continues the chilling drama of life in the Soviet Union just after Khrushchev's purge of Stalin in 1956. Protagonist Leo Demidov is an ex-security officer during a time when it is dangerous to have been one of Stalin's minions. Now working as a homicide... Read More
Stephen Coonts returns with his most compelling novel to date. All the elements of the espionage thriller are in place: angry terrorists, Russian dissidents, a captivating secret agent, and, yes, the mysterious woman he falls for, who may have connections with the enemy. Only a gifted performer could bring such an incredible story to life and, equally important, make it... Read More
For over three decades, a serial killer stalked lover's lanes around the city of Florence, killing and mutilating victims with chilling violence. Enter thriller writer Douglas Preston, who is pursuing his dream of raising his children in Italy. His dream is shattered when he learns that one of the "Monster" killings took place near his new home. Soon the fiction writer is... Read More
If life in Stalinist Russia seems hard to imagine, then reading CHILD 44 will only make it even more difficult to fathom. Smith's debut novel is the chilling story of Leo Demidov, a "true believer" and war hero who simply wants to serve his country. Faced with the reality that a serial killer of children is on the loose, Leo is conflicted, and eventually demoted and exiled. Leo... Read More
Deaver's eighth book in the Lincoln Rhyme series follows the quadriplegic detective Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, as they track down a twisted killer who uses online personal data to find and kill his victims, and then blame the deaths on unsuspecting individuals. Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris gives a subtle performance as understated as it is convincing. Boutsikaris knows... Read More
The death of Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in London in November 2006 was a cause célèbre, but few people know of the political intrigue that went on behind the scenes. This was no random hit--this was an execution in the style of the Cold War-era KGB. This chronicle by friend Alex Goldfarb and Litvinenko's wife, Marina, reads like the best le Carré or Clancy, and Dennis... Read More
At a rural mountain retreat, a group of aviation executives is taken hostage by hunters. The story is an ideal vehicle for Dennis Boutsikaris. Jake Landry, the lone mid-level employee attending the meeting, realizes that the men holding him and his colleagues are far more sophisticated than they seem. The story moves quickly, and Boutsikaris’s style fits the material well. In... Read More
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