Fellowship of Fear, Aaron Elkins
Fellowship of Fear, Aaron Elkins
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Fellowship of Fear

Author: Aaron Elkins

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/10/2019


Synopsis

When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at U.S. military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to teach, a decent stipend, all expenses paid, plenty of interesting European travel . . . What's not to like?

It does not take him long to find out. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black–clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention—such as the fact that the two previous holders of the fellowship both met with mysterious ends.

From there, it is all downhill. Gideon finds himself the target in an unfamiliar game for which no one has bothered to give him the rules. What he does have is his own considerable intellect and his remarkable forensic skills. He will need them, for he is playing for some fairly high stakes: the security of Western Europe.

About Aaron Elkins

Aaron Elkins is a former anthropologist who has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982. He won an Edgar for Old Bones, as well as a subsequent Agatha with his wife Charlotte, and a Nero Wolfe Award. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, "the Skeleton Detective."

The Gideon Oliver books have been (roughly) translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Reader's Digest Condensed Mystery Series. His work has been published in a dozen languages. Elkins and his wife live on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

Although he has been a full-time writer for some time now, he also remains active in real-life forensics by serving as the forensic anthropologist on the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacqie on May 31, 2012

Reading this 30 years after it was published probably didn't do the book any favors. The writing itself wasn't bad, and the author did evoke images of Heidelburg that made me want to go there. However, where the book fell down for me was on character. Simply put, I couldn't like Gideon Oliver. Gideon......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 13, 2023

3.5 stars rounded up because I know the series gets better. This is more cold war spy thriller than a mystery. I read book 4 sometime ago and it is excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 08, 2020

Having read and liked several of the Gideon Oliver books, I went back to the beginning of the series. This book had frenetic action that didn't always seem logical and Gideon was somewhat immature compared to later books. I'm glad he settled into more mature confidence in later books! I did get to se......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on April 12, 2019

Book 1 of this Forensic Anthropologist series and I highly enjoyed it. Decent plot with action all over and we get enough background our hero Gideon Oliver to get an understanding of the man. A lot of technical terms, and at times an overuse of them, but all help to explain how Gideon gets his deduc......more