Angels of Vengeance, John Birmingham
Angels of Vengeance, John Birmingham
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Angels of Vengeance

Author: John Birmingham

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 17 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted US president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battlesfor survival, justice, and revenge. Special Agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily through a South American jungleher target: a former French official now held prisoner by a ruthless despot. To free the prisoner, Caitlin will kill anyone who gets in her way. Then she will get the truth about how a master terrorist escaped a secret detention center in French Guadeloupe to strike a fatal blow in New York City. Sofia Pieraro is a teenage girl who witnessed firsthand the murder and mayhem of Texas under the rule of General Mad Jack Blackstone. Sofia might have tried to build a life with her father in the struggling remnants of Kansas Cityif a vicious murder hadnt set her on another course altogether: back to Texas, even to Blackstone himself. Julianne Balwyn is a British-born aristocrat turned smuggler. Shopping in the most fashionable neighborhood of Darwin, Australianow a fantastic neo-urban frontierJules has a pistol holstered in the small of her lovely back. She is playing the most dangerous game of all: waiting for the person who is hunting her to show his faceso she can kill him first. Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos; nation-states struggling for their survival; immigrants struggling for new livesJohn Birminghams astounding conclusion to the series begun in Without Warning and After America is an intense adventure that races from the halls of power to shattered streets to gleaming new cities as humanity struggles to grasp its better angelsand purge its worst demons.

About John Birmingham

John Birmingham is the author of Without Warning, Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, How to Be a Man, The Search for Savage Henry, and Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia's Adelaide Festival of the Arts. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Playboy, and numerous other magazines. He lives at the beach with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Graeme

Still 3 stars - a classic case of read it once and move on. A bit like a one night stand that happens after you've had too much to drink, all the good-looking partners have already been taken and you settled for 'whatever's left.' Just 3 stars. Could have been 2, but lifted by a classy bit of action......more

Oh boy does John Birmingham like to put his characters (and his audience) through the wringer! The third and final part of this series continues to follow through on the story as set up in the first book. The author said in an interview that he likes to start of with a large cast of characters and t......more

A very nice surprise! I don't knowingly start series in the middle, but as a reviewer I get what I get. In this case it was engaging enough that I'm going to hunt up books one and two, and wait and watch for book 4. I want to see the progression of how they got from wherever to here. The book is th......more