The Watchers, Jon Steele
The Watchers, Jon Steele
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The Watchers

Author: Jon Steele

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 21 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/29/2012

Synopsis

Every hour, childlike Marc Rochat circles the Lausanne cathedral as the watchmen have done for centuries. Then one day a beautiful woman draws him out of the shadows—the angel his mother once promised him would come.

But Katherine Taylor is no angel. She’s one of the toughest and most resourceful call girls in Lausanne. Until something unnatural seething beneath a new client’s request sends her fleeing to the sanctuary of an unlikely protector.

Into their refuge comes Jay Harper. The private detective has awakened in Lausanne with no memory of how he got there—and only one thing driving him forward: a series of unsettling murders he feels compelled to solve.

Pray for the three strangers. They have something in common they can’t begin to imagine.

About The Author

Jon Steele is an award-winning journalist and author of The Watchers and Angel City. Born in Spokane, Washington, he traveled the world, working as a cameraman for Independent Television News. After a 20-year career, Steele wrote the critically acclaimed War Junkie. He cowrote, codirected, and shot Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, a documentary about an American combat unit in Iraq. He lives in Switzerland.Jonathan Davis is a critically acclaimed narrator and voice-over actor. He is a three‐time winner and ten‐time nominee of the coveted Audie Award. Davis’s documentary narration credits include films and programming for National Geographic Television, National Geographic Channel, VH1, and PBS. His voice can also be heard in commercials, video games, and animation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Myckyee on May 29, 2012

I have a short list of books that I love and always keep a copy of. It includes The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Drood and The Black Hills, both written by Dan Simmons, and The Lord of the Rings. These books are characterized by great story-telling abilities by the author. They are not the kind o......more

Goodreads review by Oliver on June 23, 2024

Kind of a fun concept and the three main characters are interesting, but it all feels too drawn out.......more

Goodreads review by Marc on April 30, 2013

In this age of instant gratification that drives the two page chapter and all the other "improvements" we have seen in the development of the novel over the past twenty years or so, it is refreshing to see that one author is not afraid of long, drawn out character building and the slow, yet tension......more

Goodreads review by Lynda on August 06, 2013

Every once in a while you pick up a book solely because you are intrigued by the cover, or the synopsis on the inner sleeve and you have no expectations other than to see if it is worth reading beyond the first chapter. And then, IT happens. You fall into a world so exquisitely imagined that it ling......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne on May 29, 2012

Went into this thinking, "Didn't Victor Hugo write some little thing like this?" Shame on me for, one, never actually having read Hugo's tome and, two, almost passing up this book. Crippled (sorry, so not PC) bell-ringer, prostitute, guy that saves the day. Sure, been there, seen the Disney version......more

Quotes

“A seductive cosmic thriller stoked by historic fact, an ancient Jewish religious text, and a literary classic... Steele’s lavishly atmospheric, witty, bloody, and swashbuckling tale of age-old struggles for dominion between angels and demons is the propitious first book in an ambitious series.”—Booklist (starred) 
 “An imaginative metaphysical thriller… Steele keeps his tale tantalizingly ambiguous, casting it with fey characters and skillfully concealing until the climax whether apparent weird events haven’t been manipulated to make them seem so. This solidly plotted tale, the first in a trilogy, will appeal to readers who like a hint of uncanny in their fiction.”—Publishers Weekly

“A first novel (and first in a series) from Steele, for years a master cameraman for Independent Television News and author of War Junkie, an underground classic; really smart work for serious thriller readers.”—Library Journal “Reads like Paradise Lost by way of John Connolly, although Steele, formerly a war reporter, brings hard-edged modernity to this timeless tale as he roots his depiction of evil in the contemporary world. Clever, stylish and epic in scale, it’s a tremendously satisfying debut.”—Irish Times

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