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    The Orpheus Deception

    Written by David Stone

    Narrated by Erik Davies

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    About this audiobook

    CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-round of the international espionage, government cover-ups, and high-intensity pursuit that have cemented this series in the best of spy fiction.


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 27, 2008
    ISBN9781429592413
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    • 2/5
      After reading David Stone’s first Micah Dalton thriller, The Echelon Vendetta, I was eager to read The Orpheus Deception, the second in the series. Orpheus starts almost precisely where Echelon ends, with a few new characters and, of course, a new threat to the Western World. Both have constant danger, sexy women, sadistic bad guys, and lots of testosterone. But while Echelon had a mysterious bad guy who made you wonder who, how and why, Orpheus is plotted more like an Ian Flemming novel from the Sixties – you know who the bad guys are, what they’re up to, and why just doesn’t seem to matter much. It’s a page turner, all right, an airplane read, but not a worthy successor. In the absence of a first-rate plot, Stone’s shortcomings are more apparent. He’s still a first-rate writer of descriptive “scene-setters” and his dialogue isn’t bad, but some of the gore seems both superfluous and downright sick. Is he writing to appeal to our latent sadism, or is he a sadist himself, who enjoys writing about torture and disembowelment? This volume also abounds in racism, homophobia, snide remarks about liberals and “hippies” and xenophobia. I’ve got to think that it’s more than the characters speaking these words.Echelon was good. Orpheus isn’t, and I won’t sample Mr. Stone’s output again.
    • 3/5
      Very much a genre book, this thriller chases a strained but workable plot right up to the last chapter, which has an incoherent twist that renders most of the preceding story pointless. I found the author's unrestrained conservatism unpleasant. It crops up in casual disparaging asides about liberals -- a dangerous place to be is compared to being between Al Gore and a ham sandwich; the keening of a wounded man is said to be so high pitched that only Nancy Pelosi could hear it (an indirect if strange way of calling her a dog). In that sense, reading this book is like listening to a snide, conservative talk-radio host. On a deeper level, the author's worldview creates a more significant problem for the story, flattening the characters into cartoons. All the women agents are sexually attractive and come on to their colleagues; an effeminate man is inevitably a moral degenerate, and probably a psychopathic villain; moral manhood is reduced to the physical condition of having functioning male genitals and being able to kill people. I won't bother with another novel by this author.
    • 5/5
      Did not realize it was a continuation of previous book, The Echelon Vendetta, but read well without having read it. This reminded me a lot of the current James Bond movies. Action packed and a tiny bit of romance.
    • 5/5
      Terrific Y chromosome spy adventure with exceptionally good writing style--fun & funny descriptions.
    • 4/5
      Almost immediately after beginning The Orpheus Deception I began to wonder whether it and its predecessor The Echelon Vendetta had actually been written as a single long novel. The story is probably a bit more straightforward in the thriller mode, but it is the interesting characters that really drives Stone's books.These books absolutely must be read in order!
    • 5/5
      There should be a ten star rating option. David Stone is absolutely amazingly good at putting together a story containing suspense, humor and wonderful plots. This book is a can't put it down category all by itself. It works!
    • 5/5
      David Stone is an incredible author. He is good at characterizations, he's good at plot, he's good at plot twist, he's good at setting the atmosphere and he's good at keeping the reader in suspense. His first book featuring Micah Dalton, The Echelon Vendetta, was superb, and so is this one. Orpheus Deception picks up where Echelon Vendetta leaves off. I won't go into detail in case someone reads this and hasn't read the first book (but you do really really want to read it). It begins with another attempt on Dalton's life, again in Italy, which is thwarted in the nick of time. From there, an agent from London comes to him with an assignment: he is to somehow release an ex-agent, a Brendan Fitch, who is rotting away in a prison in Singapore. Fitch had signed on as a member of the crew for a tanker called the Mingo Dubai, which was boarded and taken by pirates. However, the Singapore government insists that it sunk, and that Brendan was drunk at the time it happened, thereby causing it. But what's worse for poor Fitch is that his jailers have discovered that he's an agent -- and he has to be retrieved before they can torture any info from him. If this was the entire story, it would still be good, but it's not, by a long shot! This is just the very beginning of an incredible adventure. Never a dull moment, lots of cliffhanging, and action, action action. I loved this book, I love this author, and I absolutely cannot wait until he comes out with another one. Recommended for those who enjoy a bit of intrigue and some incredible action.