Alpha, Greg Rucka
Alpha, Greg Rucka
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Alpha

Author: Greg Rucka

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2012


Synopsis

For the visitors to Wilsonville, the largest theme park in the world, the day began with a smile. By the end, they wonder-will they be able to escape with their lives?

Retired Delta Force operator, Master Sergeant Jonathan "Jad" Bell, is Wilsonville's lead undercover security officer. The threat begins with the announcement of a hidden dirty bomb, but quickly becomes something far, far worse.

Trained since the age of seventeen to save innocent victims from impossible hostage situations, Jad scrambles to assess the threat and protect the visitors. He will come face to face with a villain whose training matches his in every way-and presents a threat Jad may not be able to stop.

About Greg Rucka

Greg Rucka is the author of nearly a dozen novels, six featuring bodyguard Atticus Kodiak, and two featuring Tara Chace, the protagonist of his Queen & Country series. He has penned several short-stories, countless comics, the story for a videogame or two, and the occasional non-fiction essay. His work has been optioned several times over, and his services are in high-demand in a variety of creative fields as a story-doctor and creative consultant. Greg resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, author Jennifer Van Meter, and his two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on April 30, 2014

This is Die Hard in Disneyland, and is exactly as enjoyable and fun as that sounds. It's a big 80's action movie, the sort I love, updated for modern times in novel form. If opening a book by showing a man in a Goofy suit pulling out a knife and attacking an undercover military operative sounds hila......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on June 13, 2012

Greg Rucka's Alpha rachets up the tension and thrills by having terrorist seize a world famous amusement park and threaten a group of hostages with instant death and the country as a whole with the detonation of a dirty bomb. The terrorists are convincing led by a deep sleeper agent, Gabriel Fuller,......more

Goodreads review by Mike on June 06, 2024

I loved this book. Fast-paced, exciting, plenty of action and loads of OMG moments......more

Goodreads review by Jake on June 07, 2012

FFFFFFFTTTTTTT. That's the sound of ALPHA entering and leaving my consciousness. It's like a mind-fart, but without the stink. You'd remember the stink. Rucka's first four Atticus Kodiak books and his Queen & Country comics bought him enough goodwill that I'll always read his stuff. But, man, it's be......more

Goodreads review by Dave on May 28, 2012

I was 12 years old in the summer of 1988, but early into it I remember seeing TV commercials for a movie that looked pretty interesting. It was an action movie that looked intense, but it had the guy from “Moonlighting” in it, so that was a little weird. I still wanted to see it though and several w......more