Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 10 hours and 52 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Audible Studios
Audible.com Release Date: May 8, 2015
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English
ASIN: B00W9ZNZE2
Best Sellers Rank: #184 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Mysteries & Thrillers > Espionage #1920 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Spies & Politics > Espionage #14146 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Fiction & Literature
To Mark Dawson: All I can say is, "Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler!"Book 5 in Dawson's series about retired British assassin John Milton May be his most personal book yet. The story opens with a flashback to John Milton on assignment for The Group nine years ago. In 2005, Milton is in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and winds up waiting out the storm in the home of an African-American family in the city's impoverished Ninth Ward. There, he witnesses the apocalyptic devastion wrought when the levees break and flood the area. Dawson's description of the devastation is harrowing -- you feel as if you are right there as it is happening. It breaks your heart to read it,The book then fast forwards to the present day. Milton is back in the United States after his sojourn to Hong Kong and Russia (read Book 4, Ghosts, for that story). As he finishes a 6-month trek across the Northwestern United States, Milton sees a newscast on a cafe television. There, onscreen, is Izzy, the daughter in the family who sheltered him during Katrina 9 years before. Izzy has started a charity that is slowly rebuilding New Orleans' Ninth Ward. But she is fighting an unscrupulous contractor who wants to level the houses she has built and replace them with an upscale shopping mall.With nothing keeping him away, Milton travels to New Orleans to help Izzy (and repay her family's kindness during Katrina). From here, the story takes off like a shot!Izzy is a female David facing the Goliath of the contractor willing to use his money, political clout, and brute force to demolish her dreams for the rebirth of her neighborhood. When Milton steps in everything escalates -- there are threats, kidnappings, murders, even the emergence of an assassin every bit as dangerous as Milton.
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