Killing Maine

Name: Killing Maine
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mike Bond
ISBN: 9781536674767

Author: Mike Bond

Series: Pono Hawkins #2

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/18/2017

Categories: Fiction, Political

Synopsis

First Prize for Fiction -- 2015 New England Book Festival. . . cold, rugged Maine becomes a hot bed of intrigue, murder, and greed, making it difficult for the residents, who love the land and this beautiful state, to continue to live the lives that they have chosen. Pono Hawkins returns to rescue his Special Forces buddy who is wrongly accused of murdering a prominent environmentalist Ronnie Dalt.Unknown killers stalk Pono as he tries to unravel Ronnie's death. Nothing is certain, no one can be trusted, no place is safe. There's a million square miles of wildlands out there to hide a man's body. And with a rap sheet that includes two jail sentences, Pono is the number one target of every cop in the state."Another stellar ride from Bond." - Kirkus

About Mike Bond

Mike Bond is a bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet, and international energy expert. He has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of politics and multinational corporations, and the magical beauty of the vanishing natural world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Monnie on April 29, 2016

Some of my favorite authors don't hesitate to tackle issues important to them - Brad Thor and John Grisham come to mind immediately. But Gott im Himmel - in this one, the editorializing nearly obliterates the story. And that's too bad because there is a story here, and, IMHO, a darned good one. I ca......more

Goodreads review by Clare on September 18, 2017

This seems very right wing to me. The surfer Pono who is usually found in Hawaii heads off to Maine when a friend from Army days is jailed. As one does. I liked the book about saving Hawaii from giant wind turbines which would benefit a giant electricity supplier, WindpowerLLC, by gaining them grant......more

Goodreads review by Frank on July 21, 2015

Review copy When I decided to read Killing Maine by Mike Bond, I had no idea it was the second book in a series. To tell you the truth, it would not have made any difference. This book works perfectly well as a stand-alone novel. A little bit about the author, Mike Bond. Aside from being a bestselling......more

Goodreads review by Carla on July 13, 2024

I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway. Well I'd like to say I liked it, but I'm afraid I can't say that. It lacked everything that would hook a reader into the story. The good guy in the book was lacking personality and heroics. The plot itself was lame and boring, same old story as old as time. T......more

Goodreads review by Phillip on November 24, 2016

There was a time when all I read were books by James Patterson, and Lee Child. I can’t remember this last suspense novel I read. Well. Until now. Mike Bond’s KILLING MAINE definitely brought me back into the genre. Full force. Sam ‘Pono’ Hawkins is a Special Forces vet, living in Hawaii. After having......more