Echo

Name: Echo
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack McDevitt
ISBN: 9781452674872

Author: Jack McDevitt

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/31/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of discovery—one that will lead them directly into the path of a very determined assassin who doesn't want those secrets revealed.

Echo is the fifth book to feature intersteller antiquities dealer Alex Benedict. The first four titles in the series are available on audio from Audible.

About Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt, a former naval officer, taxi driver, English teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, is now a full-time writer. His many books include The Devil's Eye, Moonfall, Cauldron, and Seeker, which won a Nebula Award, and he is also the author of numerous prizewinning short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Historians In Space!!!! Well, if anyone has followed this far in the series, you know this is nothing new. It's nearly 30,000 years after humanity has spread from Earth and we're all over the galaxy and there are very very few alien species out there. But humans being humans, we fall apart and lose t......more

Goodreads review by Stewart

One thing I've noticed about Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict novels is that humanity is largely alone in the universe. Intelligent life is rare. This is also the case with his Priscilla Hutchins novels--I'm not certain whether she and Benedict exist in the same continuity or not; haven't read enough M......more

Goodreads review by Brian

Not up to the standards of the series in the end. It did make me want to immediately reread the entire series, though. The central mystery is great -possibly the best set-up in the series- but the resolution has a major groaner that made me shake my head in disappointment.(spoiler:Star Trek Style al......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

This is extremely well written, but shows signs of being a really great short story or short novella that has been padded to novel length. I really had the feeling that it was going to be one of those novels where in the end, nothing has happened. BUT... that was not the case: in the last few chapters......more