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Gas City: A Novel Audiobook, by Loren D. Estleman Play Audiobook Sample

Gas City: A Novel Audiobook

By: Loren D. Estleman
Gas City: A Novel Audiobook, by Loren D. Estleman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Mel Foster Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2008 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781400176205
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Total Audiobook Chapters:

29

Longest Chapter Length:

29:41 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

14:15 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

21:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

28

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Publisher Description

Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces—greed and corruption, ambition and desire—run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.

A power struggle—between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story—turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.

Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption—a stunning portrait of the human condition.

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"A novel about political corruption in a city with boundaries that are unexpectedly breached. Estleman has written a number of books but this is my first and I am impressed and sorry to have missed so much good reading. His writing is intense and his descriptions on point. "

— Ann (4 out of 5 stars)

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  • Razor-sharp.... The author's achievement...will justly be compared with that of James Ellroy's Los Angeles noir mysteries and John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions.

    — Publishers Weekly Starred Review

  • “Razor-sharp…. The author’s achievement…will justly be compared with that of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles noir mysteries and John Gregory Dunne’s True Confessions."

    — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  • “May be the prolific Estleman’s most thought-provoking and emotionally engaging novel.”

    — Booklist (starred review)

  • “Estleman…serves up what just might be the best novel about urban political corruption since Dashiel Hammett’s The Glass Key."

    — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

  • “Narrator Mel Foster…offers an underplayed reading that captures each character’s very essence and makes the novel all the more believable.”

    — AudioFile

Gas City Listener Reviews

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  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " A novel about political corruption in a city with boundaries that are unexpectedly breached. Estleman has written a number of books but this is my first and I am impressed and sorry to have missed so much good reading. His writing is intense and his descriptions on point. "

    — Ann, 9/24/2013
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " This book is really more of an outline to what would be a really good book as it never feels fully realized even by the pat ending. "

    — Myke, 1/27/2013
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " This was a well written, noirish slice of life, set in an industrial town in America. Good, but the rushed ending was a little too pat. "

    — Greg, 1/18/2013
  • Overall Performance: 1 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 5

    " A town owned by a rich curmudgeon and a mystery that unfolds. Found it hard to get into. Ended up speed-reading to the end. "

    — Scotchneat, 12/3/2012
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " ok, not great in murder/mystery genre. "

    — Jean, 5/31/2012
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Evocative tale of big city corruption that seems to have epic ambitions and then peters out rather quickly. I enjoyed it, but it seemed like Estleman got bored with his own characters and decided to bring the plot to an abrupt end. "

    — Mike, 3/8/2012
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " I was looking for something to read when I came across this book. To be honest it was okay not bad, not great, just ok. To me it's one of those books that you pick up to read while you are trying to find a really terffic book to read next. "

    — Jay, 2/15/2012
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Estleman can write.Good prose.Story ok "

    — Nev, 9/5/2011
  • Overall Performance: 2 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 52 out of 5

    " didn't finish it as discs 4-6 flaked off. "

    — Carolyn, 3/16/2011
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Atmospheric but disappointing noir mystery of corruption and murder in the "bad" part of town. "

    — Marsha, 2/7/2011
  • Overall Performance: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " This was a well written, noirish slice of life, set in an industrial town in America. Good, but the rushed ending was a little too pat. "

    — Greg, 1/29/2011
  • Overall Performance: 1 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 51 out of 5

    " A town owned by a rich curmudgeon and a mystery that unfolds. Found it hard to get into. Ended up speed-reading to the end. "

    — Scotchneat, 7/14/2009
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Atmospheric but disappointing noir mystery of corruption and murder in the "bad" part of town. "

    — Marsha, 3/15/2009
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " This book is really more of an outline to what would be a really good book as it never feels fully realized even by the pat ending. "

    — Myke, 8/7/2008

About Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is an award-winning author of mainstream fiction, Westerns, criticism, and mysteries. He has written more than eighty novels, including in the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. He is the winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, a Barry Award, the Elmer Kelton Award, two Stirrup Awards, and a Popular Fiction Magazine Outstanding Writer Award. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Western Writers of America, the Private Eye Writers of America, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Arts Alliance of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

About Mel Foster

Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.