Guaranteed Heroes, William Lashner
Guaranteed Heroes, William Lashner
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Guaranteed Heroes

Author: William Lashner

Narrator: Gordon Greenhill

Unabridged: 12 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/13/2015

Synopsis

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moonis’s sister, Cecily, goes missing, the old friends escape their prisons to search for her in post-fallout America.Moonis and Clyde follow Cecily’s trail until it leads them into the atomic-ravaged heart of the Midwest, an outlaw territory of dark legends and darker truths where Cecily is being held captive by a brutal gang lord.But along with menace and death, this poisoned wasteland contains the possibility of a freedom beyond imagination—if only Moonis and Clyde, and the misfits who join their quest, can find the heroism to grab hold of it.

About William Lashner

William Lashner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Barkeep, The Accounting, Blood and Bone, and the Victor Carl novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold across the globe. Writing under the pseudonym Tyler Knox, he is also the author of Kockroach, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Before retiring from law to write full time, Lashner was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law as well as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen

I am a wee bit confused by the ending, plus a whiff of magical realism-ish hints toward the end of the book that seem to be hanging as well. Hmmmm. . . but this was a thoroughly enjoyable book, especially once the roadtrip started, even when everything seemed hopeless. Moonis and Clyde seemed very r......more

Goodreads review by A Reader's Heaven

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.) In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moon......more

Goodreads review by Beverly

An American classic set in an apocalyptic dystopia. A merry band forms to take back the land from an overreaching government bound on regulating a people dealing with the aftermath of nuclear devastation and from the outlaws ruling there. This sounds drier than the actual variegated and essentially......more

Quotes

“A departure from the courtroom dramas longtime fans know him for, Guaranteed Heroes creates a chilling vision of a post-apocalyptic America, yet is populated with all-too-human characters forced to confront timeless challenges that will surely resonate with readers in today’s world.” —The Big Thrill“Lashner has penned a compelling and unique novel in which he includes a number of historical influences like Louis Armstrong, Janis Joplin, and Dashiell Hammett. This diverse list demonstrates just how interesting Guaranteed Heroes is.” —Bookreporter

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