The Guise of Another, Allen Eskens
The Guise of Another, Allen Eskens
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The Guise of Another

Author: Allen Eskens

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/06/2015


Synopsis

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died fifteen years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability.

But the investigation puts him in the path of :the Beast," the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars and a sociopath assassin who has been searching for Putnam for years. Putnam had something that Basta still wants.

If Rupert’s life was in shambles before, it's now also in danger. Threatened by the Beast and suspecting his wife of cheating, Rupert falls for the seductions of the dead man’s former girlfriend. As he feels his life spinning out of control, his steadfast brother and fellow police detective Max may be Rupert’s last hope.

About Allen Eskens

Allen Eskens is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, and The Heavens May Fall. A criminal-defense attorney for twenty-five years, he lives with his wife in Minnesota, where he is a member of the Twin Cities Sisters in Crime.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susanne on May 16, 2017

3 Stars. Missing That "Eskens" Something Special... with a little lifetime-tv movie rolled in.. "The Guise of Another" by Allen Eskens started out strong - with clear cut characters, who you invest in immediately: Alexander Rupert, is a Minnesota Detective (and is the brother of Max Rupert (from The......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on December 27, 2016

This little book was so unassuming and snuck up on me in the best way possible. Is it a police procedural? Yes. Is it a political thriller? Yes. Was it appealing in almost every way? Absolutely. The brief summary is that a man has been living his life under the identity of James Putnam, but we find o......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on November 06, 2019

I can’t believe it took me nearly a year and a half to read this second novel after the amazing first novel, The Life We Bury. This one holds the same tension and intensity as the first, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope that the gap time between this one and his third novel is much shorter. Allen......more

Goodreads review by j e w e l s on October 29, 2017

After falling in love with his first book, THE LIFE WE BURY, and accidentally buying his latest and not realizing they are all loosely connected, I went back to listen/read this second book in the Eskens series. Whew, sorry for that really long sentence! Anyway...this was just okay for me. I still lo......more

Goodreads review by *TANYA* on March 19, 2017

I'm officially a fan of Allen Eskens!!! I was blown away with his first book and I liked this one very much as well. Very entertaining.......more