Eclipse: A Thriller Audiobook

" Wow! I totally forgot how much I like this one. The place was one I had never read about and the oil industry is something I have never wanted to know about. Now I feel guilty all over again about driving to pick up Nora from school instead of walking! "

" Well written-topic just wasn't that interesting to me. I would like to read this author again. "

" Very good. Well written and great read. "

" I tried and could never get interested in this book. I finally just gave up : ( "

" An excellent story based on events in Nigeria. It is very sobering to listen to tales of greed and corruption in Africa. One is reminded of how our insatiable thirst for oil fuels this kind of political oppression. "

" The first part of this novel was riveting, but after that I simply lost interest. However, I don't think the fault lies with the book which is well-written and suspenseful and deals with important issues. I guess I just wasn't in the mood for this style of heavy-handed activism. A different reader will probably enjoy it. "

" Great book, really draws you in and also very educative. It reveals realities of so my places in the world, and awareness is its main contribution. I absolutely recommend this book as a must read. "

" I usually love this author but the storyline was not my "cup of tea". It takes place in Africa in a fictional country of Luandia and one of the main characters is Mandela-like and Okara is inprisoned while an old American friend of his American wife defends him. Too much minutia for me. "

" I tried so hard to get into this book... I went to page 100-something and couldn't take it anymore. "

" African dictator -- a stark novel about power... keeps you reading. "

" I learned a great deal about the complexity of American oil profiteers in Africa and the negative effects on local African communities and their politics/governments. The story just barely kept me going thru all the politics. "

" The book went into quite a lot of detail about oil and world politics, but I enjoyed learning about it. This book wasn't as suspenseful as some of his other books. "

" Richard North Patterson is a writer with a great sense of timing - this novel's contemporary issues should provoke heated. "

" Too much like his earlier EXILE. I quit half-way through. "

" Story is patterned after events in Nigeria about 15 years ago. Learned a lot about Afrcia and how US corporations operate on foreign soil. The book was a real eye opener for me.It is fiction, but there is much to learn from the story. "

" Despite a similar underlying theme recognized from Exile, this was a great read. Africa, oil, corruption and an attempt to stop the horrible conditions being tolerated because of the profits from oil. "

" Like his last book (Exile), Eclipse centers around a hopeless love story. This book is loosely based on Nigeria, where a ruthless kleptocratic dictator slaughters a village and prosecutes a pacifist, while living off well off oil royalties and worldwide needs. "

" Richard North Patterson always has a cause. This one happens to be about oil, Africa and abuse. It's interesting and informative. "

" I found this disturbing story of tyranny and the fight for freedom in an African nation absorbing and disturbing. The images and the fear stayed with me long after I closed the book, despite some contrived sections. "

" Good good read. Good characters, good courtroom scenes, good political intrigue. Couldn't put it down. "

" It was an interesting intrigue novel, but not the best I've read "