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MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for twenty-four million dollars, quit his minimum-wage job, and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from a world very different from our own. This entity shows Raleigh joy beyond the comforts of twenty-four million dollars . . . and merges our world with those that live beyond. DISCIPLE Hogarth “Trent” Tryman is a forty-two-year-old man working a dead-end data-entry job. Though he lives alone and has no real friends besides his mother, he’s grown quite content in his quiet life, burning away time with television, the Internet, and video games. That all changes the night he receives a bizarre instant message. At first he thinks it’s a joke, but in just a matter of days Hogarth Tryman goes from a data-entry clerk to the head of a corporation. His fate is now in very powerful hands as he realizes he has become a pawn in a much larger game with unimaginable stakes.
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"Apocalyptic thrillers. Loved them both. Love what he did central characters from both novels. Losers who come across new money and how they manage to keep it from corrupting them"
— Eric (5 out of 5 stars)
Merge / Disciple Listener Reviews
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" Well two very similar premises with Merge being the more unsettling. Merge was the better of the two because of how out there it got and really painted humanity and a terrible light especially towards the climax. IT has undertones of some of Octavia Butler's works. "
— Rich, 11/1/2013 -
" I am a sucker for anything i think is written from a theoretical physics, cosmology, Buddhist, meditative point of view. "
— Bill, 10/18/2013 -
" My favorite author. My least favorite work of his, yet I could not put the books down. It is science fiction and a very shocking ride into the genre. "
— Ironflower, 10/7/2013 -
" I was intrigued by an NPR review that described these stories as "weird". I guess I'm not sure what else I expected, then, other than a pretty strange read. It was brilliantly original in parts, but in other moments I would reflect on what I was reading and felt like it was only half-baked. "
— Sally, 8/24/2013 -
" I've now read more than a dozen Walter Mosley books and would recommend this one to anyone. "
— Kevin, 6/5/2013 -
" I do love this man, but I'm not crazy about his sci-fi stuff. "
— Martin, 3/11/2013 -
" so, I'm a big fan of Walter Mosley but this book is a little odd. I'm reading an advance copy and only made it through the first 20 pages of the Merge portion of the book. A little odd and unexpected. I hope to resume it before my copy expires but we'll see. "
— Andrea, 2/10/2013 -
" A far cry from the Easy Rawlins stories, but an interesting pair of fantasy novellas that could take you places you've never been. They're a little loose but thought-provoking. "
— G., 12/31/2012 -
" I enjoyed Disciple more than Merge. If Merge had been on par with Disciple I probably would have given this a four. "
— Greg, 9/25/2012
About Walter Mosley
Leon Nixon is a professional actor, playwright, and filmmaker. A Los Angeles native, he has performed in short films, web series, and on stage in dramatic and comedic roles. He is also an improviser and part of the group that appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Continuous Improv Show.
About the Narrators
JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.
Bernard K. Addison has performed extensively on stage, both in New York and in Los Angeles. Notable acting credits include The Ballad of Emmett Till, which won numerous awards in 2011. He has also worked with several regional theaters, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the California Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Theatre Center, and the McCarter Theatre Center, among others.