36 Righteous Men

Written by Steven Pressfield

Narrated by Mia Barron

New York homicide detectives pursue a serial killer in this apocalyptic thriller.

When James Manning and Covina “Dewey” Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach to a sweltering maze of shops in Little Hong Kong,
with scant leads on the killer. But when Manning and Dewey apprehend a woman—a disgraced but brilliant rabbinical scholar—fleeing one of the crime scenes, they’re brought face-to-face with the shocking truth: the Jewish legend of
the hidden Righteous Men, the 36 who protect the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered.

As the bodies pile up and the world tilts further into chaos, Manning and Dewey must protect the last of the Righteous Men from a ruthless killer able to beguile his victims and command them against their will. Plunged into a deadly
game of cat and mouse, the detectives find their arsenal of bullets and blades of little use against a foe who knows their every move.

Joining forces with the rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist, Manning and Dewey set off on a perilous quest from New York to Gehenna in Israel to confront a murderer who won’t stop until he’s killed every one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705035221

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield has been an enthusiastic golfer since the age of ten. He is the author of the novel Gates of Fire and a well-known screenwriter whose screenplays include "Above the Law" and "Freejack." He lives in the Los Angeles area.

Reviews for 36 Righteous Men

[Michael Neeper · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book from pressfield. So exciting I finished it much quicker than a normal audiobook

[shellys_70 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a page-turner, partly due to the story and partly due to the writing style used by the author. Dialogue is presented script-style and the overall narrative reads like a police report, which it mostly is, being told by Dewey, a junior detective in 2034 New York City. Climate change has reached crisis-level and now someone is killing environment activists in New York as well as other locations across the globe. Dewey and her older partner Manning are assigned to the taskforce investigating the murders. The killer leaves no trace behind, other than a mysterious mark between the victims' eyes that can be seen only after the skin is pulled back during an autopsy. A mysterious woman provides a clue that sets Manning and Dewey off on an investigative direction that puts them at odds with their supervisor. The deaths seem connected, according to the woman's info, to the Jewish myth of the 36 Righteous Men -- their identities hidden -- whose existence is keeping God from destroying humanity. Now, it seems, some supernatural creature has identified them and is killing them to bring about Armageddon. The urgency to keep the remaining righteous men alive is matched by a global ecosystem spiraling out of control. The sections dealing with excessive heat and storms feel all too real. The story might be fiction, but it's a cautionary tale. This could be our future, perhaps sooner than Pressfield assumed.