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The Devil's Eye

An Alex Benedict Novel

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The Devil's Eye

By: Jack McDevitt
Narrated by: Jack McDevitt, Jennifer Van Dyck
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Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene - who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation.

The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval - a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of that silence is unimaginable.

Bonus Audio: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Jack McDevitt.

©2008 Cryptic, Inc. (P)2008 Audible, Inc. Adventure Science Fiction
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First the good: this is the second Alex Benedict story I've listened and together with Seeker, it is a nice sci fi mystery novel, with a great first character narration (which is not Alex Benedict, it's his partner) and a nice universe to have the events take place. Chase is actually a nicely build character and the fact that she's a woman plays nicely in the story, alex is mostly not present, the idea that it takes place 9000 years into the future but the main characters are antiquity dealers for which Churchill is some barely known history character is pretty fun. I'll recommend this to space opera fans that have read a lot of them and are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

But the audio performance from van dyck... for God's sake, please stop. I'm not the first one out there on the internet complaining about it, but she's so terrible that I need to say it too. She can't act, she can't do accents, and I have no idea why she would do them but yeah... out of the bloom she does a fake french accent in a book taking place 9000 years after French has become extinct as a language. The other female voices are either: more breathy or "I'll just take a plum in my mouth and record my voice". The male voices are just an octave lower and for some reason she thinks that sentient AIs that are basically smarter than humans must have the robot voice from the 70s.

I'll get back to this series when they change the actor and director... As it is, I'll just keep away from it. The story isn't good enough to put up with that performance.

Decent story, awful performance

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