

Dark Matter
Author: Philip Kerr
Narrator: John Lee
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 08/09/2002
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective
Author: Philip Kerr
Narrator: John Lee
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 08/09/2002
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective
Philip Kerr is the author of the widely acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, including The Other Side of Silence, The Lady From Zagreb, A Man Without Breath, Prague Fatale, and Field Gray, all New York Times bestsellers. Field Gray and The Lady From Zagreb were both finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr has also been a finalist for the Shamus Award and the winner of the British Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Award. Under the name P. B. Kerr, he is the author of the much-loved young adult series Children of the Lamp. He lives in London.JOHN LEE's highly innovative work in the fields of emotional intelligence, anger management, and emotional regression has made him an in-demand consultant, teacher, trainer, coach, and speaker. His contributions in the fields of recovery, relationships, men’s issues, spirituality, parenting, and creativity have put him in the national spotlight for over 20 years. Lee has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, Barbara Walters’ The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has been interviewed by Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other national magazines and radio talk shows.For over 25 years, Lee has conducted private and group sessions on a variety of issues working with men, women, couples, and families. He lectures, gives workshops and trainings in cities all over the world, delivering sensitive, yet sophisticated material to audiences in a humorous and simple way everyone can understand. His lectures have been branded as “hilariously entertaining, deeply compassionate, yet filled with ‘tell it like it is!’”Lee served as a professor at the University of Texas and at the University of Alabama before becoming a writer, bestselling author, life coach, and personal consultant. He currently resides on breathtaking Lookout Mountain in Mentone, Alabama with his three happy dogs.
If you are interested in finding a book to read with the goal of learning more about Isaac Newton... read another book. If, on the other hand, you are interested in a reasonably entertaining historical murder mystery - check this out. The Newton we meet here is more Sherlock Holmes than, well, Newton......more
Isaac Newton as Sherlock Holmes? Written by the author of the Bernie Gunther/Berlin Noir trilogy, which on the whole I liked? This seemed just the sort of thing for me, so in I jumped. Well, it sounded a lot more fun than it proved in fact to be. Which isn't to say that it's altogether a bad or boring......more
Entretenido libro en el que Sir Isaac Newton se transforma en Sherlock Holmes para descubrir los autores de una serie de asesinatos que ocultan algo más grande aún. Philip Kerr abandona a sus detectives habituales y se sumerge en la novela histórica con bastante éxito, aunque sin abandonar la serie......more
Odd to say, I found the pile up of dead bodies in this book quite boring. I felt the author was just showing off his own liking for gruesome detail. Sir Isaac Newton as Sherlock Holmes didn't ring true for me, I don't think Newton would have taken such a keen interest in the lives of those who are p......more
Donc, un livre ardu à commencer, qui le devient de moins en moins à force d’entrer dans l’histoire. Le thriller prend une grande partie malgré le caractère historique ce qui donne une meilleure vitesse à la lecture. Le personnage de Newton est tout simplement incroyable. Il fait d’ailleurs pensé un......more
Praise for Philip Kerr
“[A] sly and serious writer.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Kerr has the talent to convey the big idea and to take you
places you have never been.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“A brilliantly innovative thriller writer.”
—Salman Rushdie
“[Kerr] makes the brain cells as well as the hairs on
the back of the neck tingle.”
—GQ magazine
“One of the best crime novelists in the world.”
—The Globe and Mail (London)