

Crush
Author: Phoef Sutton
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/06/2015
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Phoef Sutton
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/06/2015
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Phoef Sutton is a novelist, television writer, and playwright whose work has won two Emmys, a Peabody, a Writers Guild Award, a GLAAD Award, and a Television Academy Honors Award. He was an executive producer of Cheers, a writer/producer for such shows as Boston Legal and NewsRadio, a writer for Terriers, and the creator of several TV shows, including the cult hit Thanks. His novels include 15 Minutes to Live and Always Six O'Clock.
Speed can be the saving grace of any number of literary sins: cliched plotting, shallow characterizations, you name it. Make a story fast enough and kicky enough and readers will forgive the author a lot. Crush is an example. It reads like the wind: fast and slick, but completely lacking any nutriti......more
[Read in Jan 2020; Reviewed June 2022] When I first read that Phoef Sutton had created a character named K.C. Zerbe I immediately thought, Ah, one of my people. For those not in my age bracket--or if you lack my interest in the trivial (as opposed to Trivia)--Lt. K.C. Trench, played by Anthony Zerbe,......more
Phoef Sutton hits a towering home run with CRUSH. Cleverly written and action-packed, the novel moves like a freight train, weaving fascinating characters with blistering violence, crackling dialogue and twisting turns. On par with the best writers in this genre, Sutton has crafted a character worth......more
As someone else mentions here, it reads like a screenplay. Not a lot of depth, characterization, or emotional impact; just a lot of fast-paced action scenes with people who are not particularly interesting or likable.......more