Second Chance Angel, Griffin Barber
Second Chance Angel, Griffin Barber
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Second Chance Angel

Author: Griffin Barber, Kacey Ezell

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya, David Drummond, Natasha Soudek

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

After a devastating galactic war, disgraced veteran Ralston Muck ekes out a living as a bouncer at Last Stop Station’s premier nightclub, A Curtain of Stars. Night after night he listens to the club’s star performer, Siren, sing her memories and ease some of his aching loss. But when Siren goes missing, Muck finds himself drawn into a world of dirty cops, drug lords, and conspiracies that trace back to the war itself.The only person he can trust isn’t even human. Angel, Siren’s personal AI, was ripped from the singer’s mind the night Siren disappeared. With no idea what has happened to her human host, and pursued by a killer virus, Angel flees to Muck for answers.Together they struggle to comprehend the conspiracy that entangles both their lives. Can Muck and the angel on his shoulder recover Siren before it’s too late? Or will he lose everything that matters to him one more time?

About Griffin Barber

Griffin Barber spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages while holding down jobs in marinas, bars, cafés, and, memorably, cold-calling casino guests. Finally settled in Northern California with a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his wife and daughter. 1636: Mission to the Mughals, coauthored with Eric Flint, was his first novel; he has also written numerous short stories. Second Chance Angel is what he hopes to be the first of many collaborations with Kacey Ezell.

About David Drummond

David Drummond has made his living as an actor for over twenty-five years, appearing on stages large and small throughout the country and in Seattle, Washington, his hometown. He has narrated over seventy audiobooks for Tantor, in genres ranging from current political commentary to historical nonfiction, from fantasy to military, and from thrillers to humor. He has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for his first audiobook, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay. When not narrating, David keeps busy writing plays and stories for children.

About Natasha Soudek

If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness . . . qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

disclosure: I'm both friends and a writing collaborator with both authors of this novel. This is an unsolicited review that I just HAD to write after reading their book. Blend Dave Weber's "Path of the Fury" with Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" and you get... Second Chance Angel is an action-packed nov......more

Goodreads review by Caitlyn

Far into the future, humanity is scattered among the stars. Recruited to fight a war against a rapacious alien race, humanity won… and lost Earth. On a space station called Last Stop, former soldier Ralston Muck lives a hardscrabble existence as a nightclub bouncer. Stripped of his personal AI, or ‘......more

Goodreads review by Glennis

Review to come and I really liked the epilogue. Set in a post contact future where we now have the tech to have AI implanted in humans to help us and help them win a war. Last Stop Station is literally the last stop for lots of people including Ralston Muck, a disgraced veteran dealing with no longer......more

Goodreads review by Sya A.

A human war veteran has to work together with a powerful artificial intelligence in a race to find a missing singer, amidst conspiracies that sprawl across galaxies. So, I requested this from because I was looking to read more from the genre. Both the synopsis and bookcover caught me while browsing (......more

Quotes

“In Second Chance Angel, a pair of badly damaged combat veterans team up to find the kidnapped woman who is crucial to both of them. One vet was an enlisted grunt. The other was an officer’s artificial intelligence. Vivid action and intelligent backgrounds as the team unravels a criminal conspiracy that goes well above their pay grades.” Dave Drake, author of Hammer’s Slammers

“Space opera, sentient AIs, and a mystery to solve. What more can you ask for?” S. K. Dunstall, author of Linesman

“A war veteran and a disembodied artificial intelligence form a partnership to solve a string of horrible crimes. The human/AI detective theme hasn’t been done this well since Isaac Asimov’s Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw novels, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn—with the advantage that the AI science in Second Chance Angel is that of the modern era, not Asimov’s time.” Eric Flint, author of 1632

“With this fun, noir-tinged thriller, the first in the Last Stop Station series, Barber and Ezell weave together intrigue, action, and romance, all with a hard-boiled sensibility…The authors expertly contrast claustrophobic interiors and the vastness of space, creating a world that feels both alien and lived-in. Readers will be hooked.” Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Tor.com Reviewers' Choice
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