The Razor, J. Barton Mitchell
The Razor, J. Barton Mitchell
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The Razor

Author: J. Barton Mitchell

Narrator: Travis Baldree

Unabridged: 12 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2018


Synopsis

J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is a riveting science fiction thriller about a man struggling to survive the chaos on a prison planet.

Brilliant engineer Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to 11-H37 alongside the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. A hard labor prison planet better known as the Razor, where life expectancy is short and all roads are dead ends.

At least until the Lost Prophet goes active . . .

In a few hours, prison guards and staff are evacuated, the prisoners are left to die, and dark mysteries begin to surface.

Only Flynn has the skills and knowledge to unravel them, but he will have to rely on the most unlikely of allies—killers, assassins, pirates, and smugglers. If they can survive each other they just might survive the Razor . . . and claim it for their own.

About J. Barton Mitchell

J. Barton Mitchell is an author and screenwriter of speculative fiction, living somewhere between Austin, Texas, and Taos, New Mexico.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Riju on April 09, 2019

The book began as a potential scifi update of 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Unfortunately, the portrayal of the characters as simultaneously kick-ass and vulnerable didn’t come off as expected. And then the weird stuff happened, plunging the story into extremely formulaic rota. The writing is crisp. An......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 22, 2019

Within its sub-genre, this is actually quite competent and occasionally thoughtful. However, that sub-genre is the one in which Independence Day and Battlefield Earth are great movies. The hellish prison planet that mines Impossibilium is nothing new, no problem with that. I only had trouble with e......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on November 16, 2018

Originally reviewed by malrubius on Grimdark Magazine. The Razor is the new science fiction novel by J. Barton Mitchell, author of the acclaimed YA sci-fi series The Conquered Earth. This one’s not YA, but it won’t cause you any adult discomfort either. It’s the story of four people—three prisoners a......more