Crook Q

Name: Crook Q
Brand: ONE Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Rachel Newhouse
ISBN: 9798891538382

Author: Rachel Newhouse

Series: Red Rain #2

Narrator: Sybil Johnson

Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: One Audiobooks

Published: 07/31/2025

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Religious Fiction

Synopsis

I don't want to kill anyone.The year is 2076. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences.Believing the chaos of her adventure on Mars is behind her, seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna, an unassimilated Christian, faces a restricted but uneventful future. That is until she and her friend Cea are taken hostage to blackmail Cea’s wickedly genius brother into completing the infamous superweapon Red Rain. If he succeeds, the government will have the power to dissolve entire cities with acid. Desperate, the girls make a break for it. Thrust into the streets with a gun she’s afraid to shoot, Philadelphia realizes her battle with Red Rain is far from over—and this time, turning it over to the authorities is not an option.Crook Q is the second book in the RED RAIN series, a fast-paced Christian sci-fi adventure that’s perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and LEFT BEHIND.

About The Author

Rachel Newhouse is an author, wife, secretary, and Sunday school teacher from Kansas City, Missouri. Her obsessions are sci-fi, dystopian, and kid lit. When she’s not writing, she’s cooking Asian food, growing chilis that are too spicy to eat, and watching wildly age-inappropriate shows like My Little Pony and Gravity Falls with her husband, Joe. She also really likes glitter. You’ve been warned.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on October 14, 2022

Red Rain was a staple of my teenage hood and the catalyst for my love of indie novels, so I was over the moon when the author relaunched the series and announced numerous sequels. It’s been a long minute since the first book released, so I wasn’t expecting the *exact* same tone, but this did take a......more

Goodreads review by Angie on June 25, 2019

Ummm, whaaaaat?!? Literally, what just happened?!?!? I was so, so excited to see that there was a sequel to Red Rain, but now I need the sequel to this one--like three minutes ago!!! So, wow--the tension and intensity was stellar! For a while, all I could think of was what certain people would do und......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 30, 2023

I may come back and try to write a more detailed review later, but I'm sick so this will have to do. Well, this was a well-written adventure with a lot of emotion packed into it. I was very invested in what happened next and the characters. However, I was disappointed a bit, I will be very honest. On......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 13, 2022

A good story. I enjoyed this book, but not as much as I did Book 1. I struggled to believe in the beginning how Philli could have no idea why she was being detained. I believe she’s smarter than that and it was difficult to connect with her ignorance. The first half of the book moves slowly, but pic......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 05, 2022

What's a klutzy pacifist teenage girl doing at the center of an action novel? Crook Q began as a piece of Red Rain fanfiction, which Mrs. Newhouse (then writing as "Aubrey Hansen") liked so much she decided to "adopt" it as "canon" and bring its creator on as her coauthor as she prepared it and t......more