Watch Me Die: A Novel

by Lee Goldberg Narrated by Luke Daniels

Overview

Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start...which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy residents, asks Harvey to follow his beautiful wife Lauren.

The lowly security guard jumps at the opportunity to fulfill his private eye fantasies and use everything he's learned from Spenser, Magnum, and Mannix. But things don't exactly go according to the books...or the reruns. As Harvey fumbles and stumbles through his first investigation, he discovers that the differences between fiction and reality can be deadly.

(This book was previously released under the title The Man With the Iron-On Badge and nominated for Best Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America)

Editorial Reviews

DECEMBER 2012 - AudioFile

What a fun listen! Down on his luck, Harvey Mapes goes from a dead-end gig as a security guard to a new, exciting one as a private investigator in as short a time as it takes to eat a T-bone at Denny’s. Harvey, whose personality is a rare mix of cynical and naive, draws on fictional television detectives for advice on how to perform his new duties, asking himself, for example, how Spenser would handle surveillance and what Jim Rockford would charge for a fee. Narrator Luke Daniels brings Harvey to life from the first sentence. His gruff, dryly sarcastic delivery makes the book funny as well as entertaining. Daniels makes you like Harvey immediately. And he makes Harvey's girlfriend, Carol, fully believable. D.B.B. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169583953
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	10/09/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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