China Run, David Ball
China Run, David Ball
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China Run

Author: David Ball

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2011


Synopsis

Critically acclaimed author David Ball pens the compelling story of six American families and their desperate attempt to keep their newly adopted Chinese children. Before leaving China, authorities demand the infants be returned without offering the slightest explanation. What if three of the families refuse? What if they risk everything and attempt a renegade run through China with the babies? Featuring a pulse-pounding narration by George Guidall, China Run will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

About David Ball

David Ball is an award-winning author who has held Shubert, McKnight, Rockefeller, and National Endowment of the Arts grants. His plays have been staged throughout North America and Europe, including the Guthrie in Minneapolis, off Broadway, and Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival. He’s taught writing at Duke and Carnegie-Mellon and has written many plays for the Tony Award–winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune. While he’s been most influenced by his science training and Peace Corps service (Afghanistan), two years of taxi driving was his favorite and most enlightening job. Born in NY’s Catskill Mountains to a bootlegger and an antique dealer, David is now widely known as America’s most influential trial consultant.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry

I paid $1 for China Run from a bargain counter at a Target, not my usual source of reading material. But I was in the process of adopting a little girl from China and this book seemed to be begging to be read. I started it but was soon distracted by the process of the adoption and the rest of life.......more

Goodreads review by Bert

I chose this audiobook basically to hear narrator George Guidall. He keeps you on the edge of your seat. Quite a change from other mysteries I have read recently. Loved listening to it.......more

Goodreads review by Trudy

I really was sucked in by this book at first. I listened to half of the audiobook but gradually got more and more bothered by my inability to believe that the characters would actually do what Ball said they were doing. They were running with babies when they had been promised other babies. It wasn’......more

Goodreads review by Susan

Excellent, well-researched, and fast-paced read. American Allison Turk journeys to China, accompanied by her young stepson, to pick up her new daughter through a government adoption agency. Her group of American prospective parents picks up six new babies. But something goes horribly wrong -- before......more