The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales
The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales
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The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

Author: Manuel Gonzales

Narrator: Sarah Scott, Natasha Soudek, Susan Hanfield, Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/12/2016


Synopsis

In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization—the Regional Office—and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack.
 
Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah—who may or may not have a mechanical arm—fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother’s sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose’s and Sarah’s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end.
 
Weaving in a brilliantly conceived mythology, fantastical magical powers, teenage crushes, and kinetic fight scenes, The Regional Office Is Under Attack! is a seismically entertaining debut novel about revenge and allegiance and love.

Read by Sarah Scott, Natasha Soudek, Susan Hanfield, and Mike Chamberlain.

About The Author

Manuel Gonzales is the winner of the American Library Assocation's Alex Award, and the author of the acclaimed story collection The Miniature Wife, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program, he teaches writing at the University of Kentucky and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has published fiction and nonfiction in Open City, Fence, One Story, Esquire, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Believer. Gonzales lives in Kentucky with his wife and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandon

An easy, five-step quiz to determine your probable rating of THE REGIONAL OFFICE IS UNDER ATTACK!: 1) True or false: you are open to the idea of genre fiction. 2) True or false: you believe DIE HARD to be one of the most sublime pieces of entertainment created by human hands. 3) On a scale of 1 to 10,......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

I loved reading this book. And then the literary whiplash hits you as the real world returns. It's so good while you're reading, and moves you along at breakneck speed with so many "yippee ki yay motherf*cker" moments that you can't help but love it. Then you turn the final page and close the book a l......more

Goodreads review by Sabs

Um, where to begin? Wtf happened? On the surface this book has all the trappings of a book I'm going to love. Secret societies? Check. Mysterious bad guys? Check. Superpowers? Robots? Ninja swords? Oracles? Check, check, check and check! So why on earth am I so unsatisfied and annoyed? Oh because of......more