Second Chance Angel, Griffin Barber
Second Chance Angel, Griffin Barber
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Second Chance Angel

Author: Griffin Barber, Kacey Ezell

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya, David Drummond, Natasha Soudek

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

After a devastating galactic war, disgraced veteran Ralston Muck ekes out a living as a bouncer at Last Stop Station’s premier nightclub, A Curtain of Stars. Night after night he listens to the club’s star performer, Siren, sing her memories and ease some of his aching loss. But when Siren goes missing, Muck finds himself drawn into a world of dirty cops, drug lords, and conspiracies that trace back to the war itself.The only person he can trust isn’t even human. Angel, Siren’s personal AI, was ripped from the singer’s mind the night Siren disappeared. With no idea what has happened to her human host, and pursued by a killer virus, Angel flees to Muck for answers.Together they struggle to comprehend the conspiracy that entangles both their lives. Can Muck and the angel on his shoulder recover Siren before it’s too late? Or will he lose everything that matters to him one more time?

About Griffin Barber

Griffin Barber spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages while holding down jobs in marinas, bars, cafés, and, memorably, cold-calling casino guests. Finally settled in Northern California with a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his wife and daughter. 1636: Mission to the Mughals, coauthored with Eric Flint, was his first novel; he has also written numerous short stories. Second Chance Angel is what he hopes to be the first of many collaborations with Kacey Ezell.

About Jennifer Jill Araya

Jennifer Jill Araya has been trained as an opera singer and orchestral cellist, lending a musicality and depth of understanding to her narration that help bring her authors’ stories to life. When she’s not narrating, Jennifer can be found hiking, biking, running, or generally exploring her home city of Cincinnati with her husband, Arturo, and their two children.

About David Drummond

David Drummond has made his living as an actor for over twenty-five years, appearing on stages large and small throughout the country and in Seattle, Washington, his hometown. He has narrated over thirty audiobooks, in genres ranging from current political commentary to historical nonfiction, fantasy, military, thrillers, and humor. He received an AudioFile Earphones Award for his first audiobook, Love ’Em or Lose ’Em: Getting Good People to Stay. When not narrating, he keeps busy writing plays and stories for children.

About Natasha Soudek

Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she’s played on-screen.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

disclosure: I'm both friends and a writing collaborator with both authors of this novel. This is an unsolicited review that I just HAD to write after reading their book. Blend Dave Weber's "Path of the Fury" with Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" and you get... Second Chance Angel is an action-packed nov......more

Goodreads review by Caitlyn

Far into the future, humanity is scattered among the stars. Recruited to fight a war against a rapacious alien race, humanity won… and lost Earth. On a space station called Last Stop, former soldier Ralston Muck lives a hardscrabble existence as a nightclub bouncer. Stripped of his personal AI, or ‘......more

Goodreads review by Glennis

Review to come and I really liked the epilogue. Set in a post contact future where we now have the tech to have AI implanted in humans to help us and help them win a war. Last Stop Station is literally the last stop for lots of people including Ralston Muck, a disgraced veteran dealing with no longer......more

Goodreads review by Sya A.

A human war veteran has to work together with a powerful artificial intelligence in a race to find a missing singer, amidst conspiracies that sprawl across galaxies. So, I requested this from because I was looking to read more from the genre. Both the synopsis and bookcover caught me while browsing (......more

Quotes

“In Second Chance Angel, a pair of badly damaged combat veterans team up to find the kidnapped woman who is crucial to both of them. One vet was an enlisted grunt. The other was an officer’s artificial intelligence. Vivid action and intelligent backgrounds as the team unravels a criminal conspiracy that goes well above their pay grades.” Dave Drake, author of Hammer’s Slammers

“Space opera, sentient AIs, and a mystery to solve. What more can you ask for?” S. K. Dunstall, author of Linesman

“A war veteran and a disembodied artificial intelligence form a partnership to solve a string of horrible crimes. The human/AI detective theme hasn’t been done this well since Isaac Asimov’s Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw novels, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn—with the advantage that the AI science in Second Chance Angel is that of the modern era, not Asimov’s time.” Eric Flint, author of 1632

“With this fun, noir-tinged thriller, the first in the Last Stop Station series, Barber and Ezell weave together intrigue, action, and romance, all with a hard-boiled sensibility…The authors expertly contrast claustrophobic interiors and the vastness of space, creating a world that feels both alien and lived-in. Readers will be hooked.” Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • Tor.com Reviewers' Choice
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