The Walk, Lee Goldberg
The Walk, Lee Goldberg
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The Walk

Author: Lee Goldberg

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/12/2012

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He's prepared. In his car are a pair of sturdy walking shoes and a backpack of food, water, and supplies. He knows there is only one thing he can do…that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it's not that easy. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. Wildfires rage out of control. Flood waters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After-shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There's no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he's prepared. He's wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be…if he can survive The Walk.

About Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award–nominated TV producer and a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. His many books include the long-running Diagnosis Murder and Monk mysteries, The Walk, King City, Watch Me Die, and the international bestseller The Heist, which he co-wrote with Janet Evanovich. His numerous TV writing and producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, Monk, SeaQuest, Nero Wolfe, and The Glades. He's also worked as a consultant for TV networks and studios in Europe, Canada, and Sweden and has served on the Board of the Mystery Writers of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Marty Slack is a failed writer-turned television executive. His job description is a bit elusive, but seems mainly to involve convincing other people that he's somehow essential to the process. He drives the requisite Mercedes; he lives in a gated community with an attractive wife who's a former act......more

I have read this novel a number of times since I purchased it. Clearly, I liked it enough to read it more than once. It has a number of things going for it. The story initiates with an apocalyptic event that transforms the current reality into a waking nightmare scenario. For a horror fan, it works.......more

Goodreads review by Kat

Full review on my blog: [URL not allowed] Natural disasters are the things that every PA fan’s dreams are made of. They’re realistic and possible and we’ve all imagined how we would survive ‘The Big One’ in whatever shape or form. And we’ve all seen The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and......more

Goodreads review by Lata

This was very different from other books by Lee Goldberg. It was almost philosophical. It was like a verbal map of LA downtown to Marty's condo in  San Fernando valley., while commenting on the landmarks and the obsession with anything related to Hollywood. I kinda liked it, though I usally dont tol......more

Goodreads review by Joy

The readers will feel as if they too are walking through the devastated landscape that used to be Los Angeles. The descriptions of the earthquakes--and those aftershocks--the before and after descriptions of the city, the streets and buildings, crushed cars--and bodies--are heart-stoppingly real. Wh......more