Escape Artist, Mark Sullivan
Escape Artist, Mark Sullivan
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Escape Artist
A Robin Monarch Short Story

Author: Mark Sullivan

Narrator: Jeff Gurner

Unabridged: 2 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2012


Synopsis

From the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes "A compelling, page-turning blend of spy and caper fiction: it's Robin Hood for the twenty-first century." –Jeff Abbott

Robin Monarch is a world-class thief and a highly skilled operative––a man with skills, a rigid code of honor, powerful friends and implacable enemies.

In ‘Escape Artist,' Monarch's abilities––and his nerve––are both tested when he's sent deep into the jungles of the Congo, into the encampment of an army of boy-soldiers under the leadership of a man calling himself Lieutenant Zed. He's undercover as a black market diamond dealer. His job is to steal the largest, most perfect diamond yet seen before Zed is able to sell it and use the proceeds to continue waging war. But as any thief could tell you, getting in is the easy part. Getting out, however, from the heart of an unfamiliar jungle with a hostile ‘army' at your back, requires more skill and luck that even Robin Monarch can count on.

Robin Monarch––called "one of the most compelling heroes since Jason Bourne" (Lisa Gardner)––is introduced in this chilling, nerve-wracking story.

About Mark Sullivan

A former Reuters journalist, MARK SULLIVAN is the author of several internationally bestselling thrillers on his own as well as the coauthor with James Patterson of the bestsellers Private Games (February 2012) and Private Berlin. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

About Jeff Gurner

Jeff Gurner is a voice, stage and screen actor. He has recorded hundreds of radio and television commercials, video games, and is an award winning audiobook narrator. He is best known for his narration of Patrick Lee and to Karen Miller’s The Star Wars Clone Wars series and works by Mark Sullivan and Terry Francona. AudioFile magazine praised Jeff''s "deep, compelling voice and well-acted presentation" and awarded him a 2006 AudioFile Earphones Award for Jennifer Egan’s The Keep.Gurner’s theater credits include The Lion King on Broadway, Guys and Dolls, Harold and Maude: The Musical, and A Christmas Story. Television credits include The Good Wife, Mercy, and Law & Order.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on March 16, 2024

I listened to The Escape Artist on audiobook after reading my first Mark Sullivan book, The Last Green Valley and rating it five stars. I then put all of Mark Sullivan books on my TBR, including those that he wrote with James Patterson. The Escape Artist is an action packed large diamond jewelry heis......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 06, 2016

This adds some to Monarch's backstory, but not as much as I'd hoped. The basics were there in the first book, Rogue. I see there are now at least 2 more short stories dealing with this period in his life. This one is done via flashbacks while he is on another mission that is more interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Cecilia on March 01, 2024

Very good beginning to a novel series......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 28, 2013

Pulsing with suspense and weaving together threads of the past and present, this short story introduces Robin Monarch, an operative with a dark past, who is thrust into the Congo to steal the world's largest flawless diamond.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy B. on March 03, 2016

Interest-keeping plot well-narrated by Jeff Turner.......more