The Exile: A Novel
Written by Allan Folsom
Narrated by Erik Singer
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes an all new heart-pounding thriller
The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest and youngest member of the elite LAPD unit, learns quickly that the 5-2 has their own deadly system of justice, and that even the slightest protest will result in his suffering the same swift fate. Thus begins a dark, explosive struggle between good and evil—pitting Barron's squad against an exceedingly imaginative and brutal killer.
Suddenly the game widens when John flees to London with his sister, Rebecca, and they are thrown into a race against time. Pursuing them is a baroness, beautiful and cruel, who will stop at nothing to protect her family, her fortune, and her global ambitions. Her secret—spanning oceans, continents, the collapse of the USSR, even the death of the Tsars—is a stunning revelation that could catapult her to the pinnacle of world power.
Allan Folsom
Allan Folsom is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and a Hollywood screenwriter. His first novel, The Day After Tomorrow, was an explosive bestseller, hitting the lists of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Entertainment Weekly. It has been translated into twenty-five languages. Folsom's two following novels, Day of Confession and The Exile, were also major New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an excellent gripping thriller that had me riveted to my seat for nearly all of its 702 pages.It's divided into three parts, Los Angeles, Europe & Russia. The first part, Los Angeles centres around a mysteriously violent man who emerges from the midst of the take down of another criminal getting caught up as he is taken hostage, then murders police to escape resulting in a thrilling manhunt.From here it moves to Europe, which I shan't describe for fear or ruining the exciting flow of the novel, then the story moves to Russia where all of the mysteries and motivations of people are full exposed in a captivating manner.My description really does not do this justice, it was a great story and I think I shall be checking out some more Folsom soon.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, Ann was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter nursing two broken ribs and smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. Two weeks later Ann's mutilated body is found, washed up by the Thames. Maureen and her friend Leslie are the only people who seem worried about these events, and Leslie isn't telling what she knows. Maureen travels to London where she quickly finds herself embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone and threatened in a strange city, she must act fast to piece together Ann Harris's last hours and days - and to save herself from Ann's fate.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read The Day After Tomorrow by Folsom several years back and really enjoyed it. It ranks in my top 10% of books I've read, so I went into The Exile excited and ready for a new favorite. It was not to be.Perhaps it's Folsom fault and The Exile just isn't as good as The Day After Tomorrow. Perhaps it's me as my reading tastes have shifted over the years from thrillers and spy novels to a slightly more literary fare. Perhaps it's a little bit of both.The Exile starts out well enough. John Barron is a homicide detective in LA when a crazed killer escapes from police custody. Of course, we know the crazed killer, Raymond Thorne, is part of a bigger story yet to come, even if we don't yet know the details, but the first third of the book is mostly a decently done police procedural as Barron and his squad hunt Raymond. Alas, this first section of the book ends in a somewhat melodramatic, cliched way.The real problems come in the remainder of the book, as our protagonist deals with the all-too-common unstoppable, perfect, brilliant killer whilst he simultaneously tries to discover what the bigger plot is...a plot that turns out to, of course, be a tad ridiculous.This type of novel requests that you suspend disbelief for the sake of the thrills, and I can still do that, if the rest of the books delivers. Unfortunately, the portions of the book that should require me to suspend disbelief still seems implausible at times, and the secondary characters mostly see like cardboard cutouts.Not downright terrible, but not good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had a somewhat strange reaction to this book. The first third is, essentially, a police procedural (albeit a particularly violent one) set in Los Angeles. I ordinarily find police procedurals to be dull; therefore, they don't usually make my reading list. However, despite the apparent genre, I found myself unable to put the book down. That doesn't necessarily mean that I was loving the story -- I wasn't -- but, I did find it strangely compelling. The second third of the book is very different; it was much more the type of thriller that I'm used to reading (although it still has some elements of the police procedural). Oddly, the author has several "twists" that are almost expected; however, this did not take away from the suspense of the novel. Finally, the last third of the book is more of a standard thriller; however, it is also the weakest part of the book. Overall, I enjoyed The Exile; however, there are several major (and I mean major) plot elements that just don't quite make sense (like the eventual explanation of why the antagonist personally has to see to the crimes committed in the early part of the book and thus risk the carefully laid plans) that took away from the overall impact of the story. A good book, but not Folsom's best.