Skinner, Charlie Huston
Skinner, Charlie Huston
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Skinner

Author: Charlie Huston

Narrator: Jay Snyder

Unabridged: 13 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/09/2013


Synopsis

Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community.

Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare.

At the root of it all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction.

A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy from the novelist hailed by the Washington Post as "the voice of twenty-first century crime fiction," Skinner is Charlie Huston's masterpiece -- a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.

About Charlie Huston

Charlie Huston is the author of Sleepless, the bestsellers The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and The Shotgun Rule, the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and several titles for Marvel Comics. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 19, 2013

You gotta love a book in which the weapons used by the bad-ass hero include a pair of socks and a ruler. Skinner was raised in a closed environment as part of a screwy experiment from his autistic parents, and as an adult he worked for an international security firm called Kestrel where he became leg......more

Goodreads review by Trish on August 12, 2013

I thought I had read some other things by Charlie Huston, but now I don’t think I have. Huston’s American crime novels have a noir quality that is unlike anything I have seen before. To say his writing is clipped does not really encompass the extent of its abbreviation. It is thought fragments. One......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 20, 2013

Charlie Huston is back! I know it's a bit early but this may just be the best thriller of 2013. Remarkably prescient - many of the plot points in the novel were happening in real time in the real world as I was reading. I was a big fan of his Joe Pitt and Hank Thompson books but this is on a whole o......more

Goodreads review by Josh on September 27, 2013

Complex narrative in league with the finest James Ellroy. In Charlie Huston's current day spy thriller, protagonist, Skinner is embroiled in modern global warfare, a deadly game of smoke and mirrors where trust is a commodity he can ill afford. Skinner's primary occupation is that of protecting his......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 28, 2013

At first I had trouble figuring out why I didn't want to continue reading this book. I usually love thrillers. I was very excited to receive a complimentary review copy from Mulholland Books through Goodreads. Then I realized the writing style bugged me. I felt like I strained to read through the bo......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR CHARLIE HUSTON:

"Anyone not acquainted with Charlie Huston's blistering, unputdownable novels will want to tie their sneakers nice and tight, or they are apt to be blasted clean out of them."—Stephen King

"Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston is where it's at.—Washington Post

"Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road."—New York Times Book Review