End of the Ocean, Matthew McBride
End of the Ocean, Matthew McBride
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End of the Ocean

Author: Matthew McBride

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

From the author of the popular cult classics Frank Sinatra in a Blender and A Swollen Red Sun comes a riveting novel of redemption and suspense that asks the question: Just how far are you willing to go for love? Would you give up everything you’ve ever known? Risk your freedom? Risk your life?When newly divorced Sage arrives in Bali, his only plan is to drink on the beach until his money runs out and then return home to start over. So he’s caught by surprise when he falls in love with the country and its people, particularly the attractive and considerate Ratri. Soon Sage can no longer see himself living anywhere else, even as his funds dwindle and his visa’s expiration date nears. Increasingly desperate to stay with Ratri, Sage finds himself being recruited by a drug-smuggling ring―in a country where drug trafficking is punishable by death. The promised pay-out would be enough to set Sage and Ratri up for life, but only if Sage isn’t caught. Will Sage go home and risk the life he envisions with Ratri, or risk everything to stay and make that life possible? Both lyrical and suspenseful, intimate and ambitious, End of the Ocean is an unforgettable look at a brutal business in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

About Matthew McBride

Matthew McBride burst onto the crime-writing scene with his shocking and visceral short stories of bad men and good guns. His powerful first novel, Frank Sinatra in a Blender, confirms what noir and crime pros were murmuring online for months—this guy is the one to watch. McBride lives on a farm in rural Missouri with his wife and a bull named Hemingway. He started writing on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in Saint Louis, where he worked for thirteen years. Now he’s a force to be reckoned with as a crime writer. Welcome a new voice that’s raw, wild, and completely original.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deb on May 21, 2020

A man went to a country to find himself, loved the beauty, the people and fell in love. An Australian becomes friends with him and they spend a lot of time together. His money runs out and he's going to have to leave his love and go back to America . But wait, his friend gives him a way to stay, onl......more

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on June 25, 2019

As I slip ever more deeply into my golden years, I find that I much prefer stories that take me to places I have never been --- where things happen that are impossible, page by page, to predict. Such books are becoming increasingly difficult to consistently find, which is what makes END OF THE OCEAN......more

Goodreads review by Sara the Book Slayer on February 23, 2020

LOVED Frank Sinatra in a Blender.. it was nothing like this book. I can’t say much about it without revealing the entire plot, which was thin and boring. Nothing happens at all until almost the end, and I would have DNF’d it if it wasn’t a Christmas gift. I actually fell asleep reading it 3/4 throug......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 18, 2020

Just Plain Good. McBride, this guy is good. A tale of love, violence, Bali, Thailand, sex , drugs, betrayal and a lot of other good stuff all rolled into one well written and exciting package. As good as it gets. McBride is on my must read list.......more

Goodreads review by Yamini on April 07, 2025

Our protagonist arrives in Bali to drown himself in alcohol, numbing the sorrows life has cast upon him. But he’s surprised by the effect this place has on him when he falls in love with a local. A misstep, getting involved with a drug trafficking circle, leaves his fate hanging on a pendulum. On on......more

Quotes

“McBride remains a very special writer, capable of exploiting the fringes of the crime genre in utterly original ways.” Booklist

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