Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
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Dog Soldiers
A Novel

Author: Robert Stone

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2008

Synopsis

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action—and profit—by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. His courier disappears—probably with his wife—and a corrupt Fed wants Converse to find them and the drugs. Or else.Dog Soldiers is a frightening, powerful, intense novel that perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers. Stone details an American drama of greed and violence in a world where life is cheap and the price of survival dangerously high.

About Robert Stone

ROBERT STONE (1937–2015) was the acclaimed author of eight novels and two story collections, including Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award, and Bear and His Daughter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His memoir, Prime Green, was published in 2007.

About Tom Stechschulte

Tom Stechschulte (1948–2021) was an acclaimed narrator and winner of the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He had been a college athlete and business major when a friend dared him to audition for a play. He got the part and traded the locker room for the dressing room, eventually taking him to New York City and to recording audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on May 02, 2024

The time was rough and the time was wild… If you think someone’s doing you wrong, it’s not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging. The counterculture was on the rise and then it was in decline… The bearded man carried a loaded Walther automatic with a spare clip; Walthers had......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on August 22, 2023

*****NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 1975***** “I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.” The Summer of Love has withered away into the Autumn of Paranoia and the Spring of Delusions. John Converse, a journalist, whose claim to fame is his ability to produce compelling headlines (stories to go......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on July 17, 2020

Me ha gustado, sobre todo, la primera mitad del libro, aunque esperaba, en general, mucho más. Las descripciones de la acción son difusas y no acabas de entenderlas. Le sobran los delirios post-chute, en los que no entiendes nada, excepto que los personajes van drogados y no saben qué están diciendo.......more

Quotes

“Narrator Tom Stechschulte offers a firm reading that relates the novel’s events in a realistic and entertaining manner. He portrays Converse as a terse, hard-nosed character who still manages to be likable. Stechschulte’s delivery is remarkably solid throughout. His characters’ voices adjust accordingly as they journey through the plot. A gripping performance, to say the least.” AudioFile

“Harrowing…white-knuckled suspense…A here-and-now journey to hell.” Time

“A dark decendant of Conrad and Hemingway’s adventure stories…Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape.” New York Times

“Compulsively readable…As forcefully as any novel one can think of, this novel conveys the cynicism, the terror, and the appetite for new experiences that have marked recent years.” New Yorker

“Dog Soldiers is a novel so good, so interesting and serious and funny and frightening, so absorbing, so impressive, so masterful…It is splendid, terrific action suspense.” Esquire

“Powerful, literally chilling.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Stone’s Dog Soldiers became a seminal text for disaffected youth across the country but especially those returning home from war only to find themselves out of step, ostracized, or just wondering what the hell had happened—a generation of young men, drafted and armed, who came to recognize just how little anyone in power cared about the value or quality of their lives.” CrimeReads

“The language is stripped and strong…[with] unerring dialogue and characterization.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • National Book Award
  • Time Magazine's Best 100 English-Language Novels from 1923–2005
  • CrimeReads Pick
  • BookRiot Pick
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