Saving Sophie, Ronald H. Balson
Saving Sophie, Ronald H. Balson
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Saving Sophie
A Novel

Author: Ronald H. Balson

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 13 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2015


Synopsis

From Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers, Saving Sophie is the powerful story of the lengths a father will go through to protect his daughter and an action-packed thriller that will take you on an unforgettable journey of murder and deception, testing the bonds of family and love.

Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago-that is, until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became the main suspect in an $88 million dollar embezzlement case. Now Jack is on the run, hoping to avoid the feds long enough to rescue his daughter, Sophie, from her maternal grandfather, a suspected terrorist in Palestine.

With the help of investigative team Liam and Catherine, and a new CIA operative, a secret mission is launched to not only rescue Sophie but also to thwart a major terrorist attack in Hebron. But will being caught in the crossfires of the Palestine-Israeli conflict keep their team from accomplishing the task at hand, or can they overcome the odds and save countless lives, including their own?

About Ronald H. Balson

RONALD H. BALSON is an attorney, professor, and writer. His novel The Girl From Berlin won the National Jewish Book Award and was the Illinois Reading Council's adult fiction selection for their Illinois Reads program. He is also the author of The Righteous, An Affair of Spies, Defending Britta Stein, Eli’s Promise, Karolina's Twins, The Trust, Saving Sophie, and the international bestseller Once We Were Brothers. He has appeared on many television and radio programs and has lectured nationally and internationally on his writing. He lives in Chicago.

About Fred Berman

Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume’s Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements’s The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman’s popular series, The Walking Dead.Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC’s hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on February 18, 2016

Intriguing premise with the embezzlement and kidnapping storylines. At times, I thought that there was too much material that the author could have cut out. There were also moments in the book where I felt like I was being preached at or taught a lesson about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Overall......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 10, 2017

Following Once We Were Brothers, Ronald H. Balson returns with another riveting page-turner, SAVING SOPHIE — A child kidnapping, terrorist activity, ransom, and an embezzlement. Chicago PI Liam Taggart and his fiancée, lawyer, Catherine investigate an act of embezzlement, plus more. A Jewish accoun......more

Goodreads review by Annette on May 02, 2019

I don’t know why this is called series. This book has nothing in common with Book I and Book III except for a lawyer and a detective. The other two books are filled with history, both set during WWII in Poland, and this one hardly has history in it except the Palestine-Israel conflict and it’s more......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on September 24, 2015

Could not put down until I finished the book. So very contemporary. Everything a good book should have: great characters, a little history & geography, intrigue, mystery, family, sadness & joy, love, respect and just a great story. Guess I have to read Once We Were Brothers next.......more


Quotes

"Balson succeeds in illuminating the personal side of the Middle Eastern conflict through his deeply human, psychologically credible characters." - Publishers Weekly