Unthinkable, Brad Parks
Unthinkable, Brad Parks
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Unthinkable

Author: Brad Parks

Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Amanda Stribling

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/27/2021


Synopsis

From international bestselling author Brad Parks comes a new thriller about an ordinary man who may be able to save the world as we know it—but to do so, he must make an impossible choice.Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn’t believe he’s important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it’s a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He’s foreseen that a billion people could die—unless Nate acts.It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set this mass casualty incident in motion: a lawsuit against the biggest power company in Virginia, being brought by Nate’s wife, Jenny.Nate quickly smells a scam being perpetrated by the power company. But at every turn, it becomes apparent there’s more to DeGange’s gift than Nate wants to acknowledge. A billion people really could die, and Nate might be the only one who can save them.All he has to do is the unthinkable.

About Brad Parks

International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been published in fifteen languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major prepublication review outlet.A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with the Washington Post and the Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey). He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-age children. A former college a cappella singer and community theater enthusiast, Parks has been known to burst into song whenever no one was thoughtful enough to muzzle him. His favored writing haunt is a Hardee’s, where good-natured staff members suffer his presence for many hours a day and where he can often be found working on his next novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad

Folks seem to get a kick out of me reviewing my own book on Goodreads. I always give myself five stars. Look, writing books is hard enough, okay?? There seems little point in adding to the punishment with another act of self-flagellation. Also, I really do love this novel. It often surprised me (yes,......more

Goodreads review by Pat

3.5 rounded down. Nate Lovejoy and Jenny Welker have a very nice life. Both lawyers but since Jenny is a more high flying lawyer, the lovely Nate is the stay at home parent caring for their two young daughters. All is great until Nate is approached by Lorton Rogers with a preposterous proposition, he......more

Goodreads review by 3 no 7

Elaborate hoax or frightening reality? “Unthinkable” explores the concept of cause and effect. Can a butterfly flapping its wings in California start a whirlwind that becomes a tornado in Kansas? Is there a correlation between separate events? One can use statistics to associate events in the past,......more


Quotes

“[Readers] will be rewarded with turns of fate and twists of plot more shocking than even the clairvoyant DeGange may have foreseen.” The Wall Street Journal“A textbook one-sitting read whose fiendishly inventive details only intensify its remorseless momentum.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Parks makes suspension of disbelief to his premise accessible via solid prose and characterizations. Readers who enjoy jaw-dropping but credible plot twists will be enthralled.” Publishers Weekly