The World Played Chess, Robert Dugoni
The World Played Chess, Robert Dugoni
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The World Played Chess

Author: Robert Dugoni

Narrator: Robert Dugoni, Todd Haberkorn

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

“A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it.” —Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley.Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer—Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life—dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one’s own destiny.

About Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, which is set in Seattle and has sold more than seven million books worldwide. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series and the David Sloane series of legal thrillers. He has also written several stand-alone books, including the novels The 7th Canon and Damage Control; the literary novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is a two-time finalist for the Thriller Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, and a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award for mystery and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards.Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.Visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com, and follow him on Twitter @robertdugoni and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on August 30, 2023

I found the religious propaganda to be offensive; otherwise, I would have given this book a rating of five. Except for that propaganda, this is a brilliant book.......more

Goodreads review by Debra on September 14, 2021

"Regret is so much harder to live with than failure." 1979 - Vincent Bianco has graduated from high school and is working as a laborer for a construction crew with two Vietnam Vets. It is a summer before college, he hopes to earn beer money, what he earns instead is a friend, William, with PTSD who......more

Goodreads review by Nickolus on October 21, 2021

This book was heavily promoted and has had many great reviews, so I was looking forward to it. I’m also a huge fan of coming of age stories. This seemed to fit me perfectly. Unfortunately, the story is undermined by several things. The book is filled with clichés. It employs genuinely awful turns of......more

Quotes

“A riveting story of boys becoming men and the risks they take along the way.” —Library Journal

“The World Played Chess is a shining example of a writer at the top of his game, and a deeply thought-provoking take on a man’s coming of age.” —Authorlink

“Wondrously brilliant and poignant…While not a Vietnam novel per se, the book resembles Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War in its sheer emotional resonance. Dugoni, though, seems to be channeling the lyrical storytelling magic of the great Pat Conroy more. The World Played Chess is this generation’s The Prince of Tides and a candidate for best novel of 2021.” —Jon Land, Providence Journal

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