Trite turnout from seasoned writer

Perhaps this book falls so short because Coonts published it prior to 911. The book treats the electronic devastation of NYC and DC as if they are merely inconveniences, without ever exploring the consequences that we too well learned in September of the published year. Characters are shallow and some of the conversation simplistically inane .. not what I'd expect from a writer who's been around as long as Coonts. I wouldn't go out of my way to find this reader again, either. Overall it was pretty disappointing.

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Bad narration

slow starting and the narrator makes listening to this a real chore

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Painfully Poor Prose

I rarely give a book a rating this low in part because I usually rely on others to vet a book before I purchase it. Wrong strategy on this one, however.

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Jake Grafton is now Foghorn Leghorn

I love Stephen Coonts books. The last was Michael Richard. Great...now it sounds like Tom Clancy. Not bad at all. Then we get John Kenneth. He must not have listened to any of the previous books. So, Jake Grafton is now a Southern gentleman that sounds like the giant rooster from Looney Toons. Not good.

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Great book, new narrator

I’ve been listening to the Jake Grafton series in order. Benjamin L Darcie was the narrator for 6 of the 8 books I’ve listened to, John Kenneth did a great job, but it’s hard to not hear the voices Benjamin Darcie gave the characters.

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Quite possibly the worst narration of a story ever

I've thoroughly enjoyed this entire series on audiobook until I started America. I'm sure that the story is just s good as all the others were but I will have to read this one, unless by some miracle there's another version with a different narrator floating around. The narrators voice does not fit the characters at all.I am sure that he's done great work on other books but his work on this one is a hard pass for me.

I can’t take any more.

Performed by a 5 year old that could read? No idea of the history of the characters. Sounds like it is being performed for a child. They turned it into a Hardy Boys story. I want my credit back! I can’t rate the story. I didn’t finish.

Performance leaves a lot to be desired.

Too bad the reader didn’t listen to previous recordings in this series. None of the accents, especially Jake Grafton’s matched previous books. I thought Jake was from the mid west but this reader gave him a gruff southern drawl. Voices were not consistent throughout the book and made for some confusion.

One of the best

I stumbled upon Jake Grafton many years ago and have been a fan ever since. I kept seeing America among the Audible “books” but not within my II Barry. Surely I had “read” it. But I ultimately checked my old collections of CD’s and was astounded it was not there either. I bought it and, wonderful to tell, did not recognize a bit of it! It i one of the best of the Grafton books — and that is an excellent oeuvre for any writer.

Now, I hope I can find another bit of serendipity to “read” featuring another favorite character: wouldn’t it be great to stumble upon an unread, but canonical, Poirot or Nero Wolfe or Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes.

Great story,poor editing

Stephen Coonts has written a great story as we have come to expect of him. The editing of this audio book is the poorest I can remember. Some short pauses as the story shifts between scenes allow the reader to follow the change would have made a world of difference here. Keep them coming Stephen Coonts!