Full Measure: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Stunning…[Parker] has touched on the frustrations and complications of coming home from war, domestic gun violence, and the often fraught relationship between brothers set against the backdrop of California’s avocado farms, fires, and floods. What a brave and daring writer.”

  — Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author

• “A tense and compelling drama of the wars without and the wars within--and of the flame of violence that burns through the American psyche.

  — T.C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Women

• Stunning . . . [Parker] has touched on the frustrations and complications of coming home from war, domestic gun violence, and the often fraught relationship between brothers set against the backdrop of California's avocado farms, fires, and floods. What a brave and daring writer.

  — Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy

• Full Measure is a great American family novel. . . . T. Jefferson Parker has often been considered an heir to Raymond Chandler and John D. McDonald, but in this compassionate and urgently contemporary book he is playing in the same league as John Steinbeck.

  — Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and Remember Ben Clayton

• Emotionally devastating, tense, moving toward an explosive climax, this is a great American book by a master at the top of his game. Parker is entering East of Eden territory here. Family, war, racism, violence and the sometimes painful demands of love fight for air in this charred landscape of the heart. Wow.

  — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize-Nominated and bestselling author of Into the Beautiful North

• Skilled plotting, great pacing, characters with understandable flaws trying hard to be guided by their consciences. A winner . . . as compelling as it is unpredictable. . . . With vivid characters and a strong plot, in FULL MEASURE Parker has hooked a big one.

  — Stephen P. Kiernan, author of The Curiosity and Last Rights

• Aptly titled, Full Measure takes the emotional temperature of our times. T. Jefferson Parker is a gifted storyteller, and he weaves a masterful plot here; but it's his many beautiful insights into the emotional life of the good, flawed people who inhabit Full Measure that I'll never forget.

  — Charmaine Craig, author of The Good Men

• Under Parker's sharp and all-seeing pen, the hopes and dreams of his characters are brought into suspenseful collision with the country's conflicting social and political currents. . . . There are moments of profound beauty in Full Measure that shouldn't be missed. I couldn't put this book down.

  — Andrew Winer, author of The Marriage Artist

• “A tense and compelling drama of the wars without and the wars within—and of the flame of violence that burns through the American psyche.”

  — T. C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author

• “Edgar-winner Parker (Laguna Heat) takes a break from writing bestselling crime novels for this standalone about an Afghanistan veteran who comes home to California and discovers that the town where he grew up is its own kind of war zone…and the stage is set for a chaotic climax.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “A great American family novel…Parker is playing in the same league as John Steinbeck.”

  — Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo