Obedience, Joseph Hansen
Obedience, Joseph Hansen
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Obedience
A Dave Brandstetter Mystery

Author: Joseph Hansen

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2020

Synopsis

With retirement just out of reach, Dave Brandstetter investigates the killing of a Vietnamese immigrant.As an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has spent his life unraveling suspicious deaths. Now, well into middle age, he has decided to retire for the sake of Cecil, the young TV reporter who loves and cherishes him, and has too often risked his own life for Dave’s work. But retirement does not come easily.An old friend in the public defender’s office asks Dave to help Andy Flanagan, a shiftless young man accused of murdering a Vietnamese businessman to defend the Old Fleet—a shantytown of houseboats that has been earmarked for development. Unable to resist the case, Dave heads to the Old Fleet and begins asking questions. Beneath the surface of this oil-slicked slum lurks an international conspiracy so appalling that Dave will regret postponing his retirement.

About Joseph Hansen

Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was the author of more than twenty-five novels and was a renowned short-story writer. The winner of the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, he was also the author of A Smile in His Lifetime, Living Upstairs, Job’s Year, and Bohannon’s Country.

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 Bill

This is the third from the last book in the Dave Brandstetter series, featuring America's first openly homosexual private eye. This adventure concerns the murder of a Vietnamese patriarch, and that murder's origin--and repercussions--in a traditional culture which requires "obedience." When I began r......more

Goodreads review by James

Dave Brandstetter, the insurance claims investigator who is the protagonist in Joseph Hansen's excellent series, is feeling his age. He's been threatening to retire for a while now and at the opening of this book, he officially pulls the plug. Dave sends letters to all of the insurance companies for......more

Goodreads review by Kaje

One of the most notable things about this series is that, unlike many series MCs, Dave is aging. He's not as fast on his feet, and he tires more easily. He's real and human and he makes mistakes. His reputation is growing though - in this case he's asked in by the relative of a suspect, to investiga......more

Quotes

“Fast-paced and literate, while revealing little-known facts about Indo-Chinese lifestyles in America.” Publishers Weekly

“California settings with an East Asian twist, crisp prose, increasing tension, and a satisfying conclusion add to the excitement. Recommended.” Library Journal

“Hansen is the most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today.” Los Angeles Times, praise for the author

“Characters with real stuffing in them.” Ellery Queen, praise for the series

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