Testament
Written by David Morrell
Narrated by Benjamin L. Darcie
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About this audiobook
Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise—to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive—as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pursue him.
From the bestselling author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity of Stone, The League of Night and Fog, The Fifth Profession, and The Covenant of the Flame comes Testament, the internationally acclaimed thriller classic by David Morrell that is his most probing, most chilling work of psychological suspense... and a novel that speaks to today's issues and fears as freshly and as powerfully as ever before.
David Morrell
David Morrell is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books, including his award-winning Creepers. Co-founder of the International Thrillers Writers Organization, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. To learn more, go to www.davidmorrell.net.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Action packed and very chilling story of a family hunted.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A breathtaking thriller set in the wilderness. Believable, brutal, and bitterly relevant with the current state of society. Start this book early in the day or you'll lose sleep to finish it. Morrell's you-are-there feel proves he thoroughly researched surviving in the wild.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I discovered David Morrell via the movie version of First Blood. A tie-in edition came out around the time of the release and soon after I found Blood Oath, new then and released in paperback with similar artwork.I read somewhere that Testament was a really great thriller and found a nice copy of the 1975 Fawcett paperback edition at my go-to shop, The Book Nook.The reviews from the cover, like this one, are correct:"WARNING: Do not read this book alone -- or at night -- or with the doors unlocked." - Worcester Sunday Telegram. It's a grim and relentless experience, a modern Western that builds to a brutal conclusion and a wrap-up that's heart-wrenching but appropriate.Testament is the story of journalist Reuben Bourne, and we meet him as the first line foretells on "...the last morning the four of them would ever be together: the man and his wife, his daughter and his son."The family cat's killed by poison, and Reuben quickly learns he's the target of a fanatic named Kess, a businessman heading a chemical and electronics company called Chemelec. (Speaking of milk, if you've never encountered Morrell's chilling short story "Dripping" seek it out in one of his collections or in Best American Noir of the Century.)Kess is also the head of a militia-style organization, The Guardians of the Republic, a group with ties to many other similar shadowy groups whose numbers, when combined, he says rival that of the U.S. Marine Corps.The group grew out of a hunting trip in which Kess and friends were accidentally fired on by another hunter. Surrounding the man, they taunted him and fired near misses for a day before relenting.That's a chilling template for what's in store for Reuben and family.In articles about militia groups following an interview granted by Kess, Reuben failed to deliver the expected puff piece, so Kess wants revenge.After another family tragedy, Reuben realizes the authorities can't really help and plots an escape route across brutal Midwestern terrain and forest land. It's all before the internet we know now and long before things like Google Earth, so Reuben's reliant on maps and topographical charts.That sets up one of the novel's coolest set pieces as he and his family discovered an undocumented ghost town with intact buildings and a surviving resident who offers a bit of aid and comfort.Kess' men are never far behind, however, and Reuben's soon faced with more violence and a moral dilemma that builds to that conclusion I mentioned before.It's a perfect thriller, a mature and sober excursion that's still an exciting read and still relevant.