Driven

Name: Driven
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: James Sallis
ISBN: 9781455155712

Author: James Sallis

Series: Sequel to Drive

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/03/2012

Categories: Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

At the end of the initial novel,Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, the only one he mourned, ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him.Driventells how the young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes down early one morning in a Tijuana bar. Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. Walking down the street one day, he and his fiance are attacked by two men, and while Driver dispatches both, his fiance is killed. Sinking back into anonymity, aided by his friend, Felix, an ex-gang member and Desert Storm vet, Driver retreats but finds that his past stalks him and will not stop. He has to turn and face it. Because he drives. Thats what he does.

About James Sallis

James Sallis has published more than a dozen novels, several books of musicology, multiple collections of short stories, poems, and essays, and more. His works have been short-listed for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger awards. Sallis is best known for his novel Drive, which was made into an award-winning motion picture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on May 08, 2012

Can a sequel be better than the first book? In this case, I think so, though there's more to it. This might take a minute to make my point, but follow me here. This is the sequel to novel DRIVE, which was made into a movie starring Ryan Gosling. (hey girl, read the fucking books, too) I fucking love......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 14, 2015

I really enjoyed Drive, the writing, style and non-linear story, so I was interested to see where this story will go with the sequel. The first major issue with Driven is that it tries to continue a story that really didn’t need to be continued. But now, Driver seems different. Driver’s campaign aga......more

Goodreads review by Dave on February 05, 2021

As others have observed, there wasn't an obvious reason for this to become a sequel. Much of the same happens in the second book as the first. But it happens seven years later, after the pretty satisfying double cross and revenge that concludes the first book, Drive. And it features good, lean writi......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 10, 2012

I'm being hard on this one, largely because of the promise it held. For about 2/3 of this book, I was rating it pretty high, but then the wheels came off (sorry). I've not read the first book, Drive, but I tried. At the time I almost thought it a parody, because of it's hyper clipped delivery. It wa......more

Goodreads review by Josh on January 20, 2015

DRIVEN, the sequel to the highly entertaining DRIVE starts with a bang as Driver's partner is brutally gunned down and Driver himself attacked by a couple of hired thugs. That sort of blistering opening really set the scene for what should have been a bloody story of revenge filled with heartache an......more