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The Rising: A Novel (The Rising, 1) Audio CD – Unabridged, January 17, 2017
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From acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land comes a story of action, mystery, and the endurance of young love in The Rising.
Twenty-four hours. That's all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever.
Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, his future looks bright. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career.
When a football accident lands Alex in the hospital, his world is turned upside down. His doctor is murdered. Then, his parents. Death seems to follow him wherever he goes, and now it's after him.
Alex flees. He tells Samantha not to follow, but she became involved the moment she walked through his door and found Mr. and Mrs. Chin as they lay dying in their home. She cannot abandon the young man she loves. The two race desperately to stay ahead of Alex's attackers long enough to figure out why they are hunting him in the first place. The answer lies with a secret buried deep in his past, a secret his parents died to protect. Alex always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. He never knew where he truly came from. Until now.
"[Luke] Daniels has such an amazing repertoire of voices that he gives each character--human or cyborg--unique nuances and makes the story exciting and easy to follow. Listeners will be drawn into a sci-fi mystery so believable they'll smell the terrifying whiff of oil that identifies the aliens and their minions." -AudioFile
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMacmillan Audio
- Publication dateJanuary 17, 2017
- Dimensions1 x 1 x 1 inches
- ISBN-109781427279491
- ISBN-13978-1427279491
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Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifty books, over ten of which feature Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong. The critically acclaimed series has won more than a dozen awards, including the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller for Strong as Steel. He is also the author of Chasing the Dragon, a detailed account of the War on Drugs written with one of the most celebrated DEA agents of all time. A graduate of Brown University, Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island and received the 2019 Rhode Island Authors Legacy Award for his lifetime of literary achievements.
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- ASIN : 1427279497
- Publisher : Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (January 17, 2017)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 9781427279491
- ISBN-13 : 978-1427279491
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 1 x 1 x 1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,601,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,255 in Action & Adventure Romance (Books)
- #65,515 in Romantic Suspense (Books)
- #82,911 in Suspense Thrillers
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About the authors
Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of the 38 novels, including seven titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series: Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break, Strong Vengeance, Strong Rain Falling (winner of the 2014 International Book Award and 2013 USA Best Book Award for Mystery-Suspense) and Strong Darkness (winner of the 2014 USA Books Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award for Thriller). Caitlin Strong returns this October in Strong Light of Day, to be followed by Darkness Rising, his sci-fi collaboration with Heather Graham coming from Forge in June of 2016. Jon is a 1979 graduate of Brown University, lives in Providence, Rhode Island and can be found on the Web at jonlandbooks.com or on Twitter @jondland.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Heather Graham, majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over two hundred novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare.
She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty-five languages. She has written over 200 novels and has 60 million books in print. She has been honored with awards from booksellers and writers’ organizations for excellence in her work, and she is also proud to be a recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers and was also awarded the prestigious Thriller Master in 2016. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.
Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. She also loves ballroom dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf Region. She is also the founder of “The Slush Pile Players,” presenting something that’s “almost like entertainment” for various conferences and benefits. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.
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The Rising is a combination of things like that of Back to the Future, Men in Black, and like that of Gary Pulsen's YA thrillers. It is intense, deep, and engaging from the start. The characters are so adorable. I love how fiercely independent Alex is. He dives headfirst into danger. He is always thinking about helping others. Then, there is his best friend slash girlfriend maybe. Sam is unbelievably smart and driven. She never hesitates to be with Alex and helping him save the world. Together, these characters pop off the pages.
I cannot wait for the second installment to this wonderful cliffhanging yet epic series! These writers have caught my attention, and I am sticking with them all the way. Overall, if you love action, mystery, and danger-get this book!
By: Heather Graham & Jon Land
Reviewed by Russ Ilg
The Rising, a sumptuously entertaining, lightning-paced romp, is a difficult book to categorize. Bestselling author Jon Land, and even bigger bestselling author Heather Graham, have joined forces to pen a tale that’s part sci-fi, part young adult, part thriller, part mystery, part romance, part—well, just take your pick.
The amazing thing is that this genre hybrid hodgepodge works. And it works in a big way—literally, since The Rising features a pair of teenagers who are only thing standing between the world and total annihilation. One of them is Alex Chin, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, high school football hero heartthrob who’s life begins to unravel when he suffers a concussion during a playoff game. The CT scan reveals an anomaly that will ultimately send Alex on a mind-bending quest to find not only the truth that’s out there in true X-Files fashion, both about himself and the world as a whole.
Enter Alex’s fellow teenager, Samantha Dixon, his brilliant tutor trying to keep his grade point average above the Mason Dixon Line. Already an intern at NASA’s Ames Center for Astrobiology in Northern California, Sam’s dreams of becoming a scientist are temporary waylaid by joining Alex in a desperate race to find why both his doctors and parents had to die for a secret he’s been unknowingly keeping.
In a great paradigm reversal so perfect for Trumpian America, Alex’s loving Chinese parents adopted him as an infant. Or did they? Nothing in The Rising is exactly what it seems, as Graham and Land mine the best of both Robert Heinlein and Suzanne Collins in the best fashion of Terminator. Except this is no post-Apocalyptic, dystopian nightmare novel with the kind of bleak vision championed by the likes of Phillip K. Dick And that helps make it a clear candidate to be the next big pop culture phenomenon, following on the heels of Hunger Games and Twilight.
At its heart, The Rising is a story about young heroes who couldn’t be more different, but find themselves drawn together by a common purpose that’s bigger than both of them. The best part of a romance, in my mind, is watching it develop, and we’re treated to that in a fashion dignified by a romantic suspense writer of Graham’s ilk. The action scenes, especially a climactic battle staged beneath Alcatraz, on the other hand, feel like the kind of elaborate set pieces that have defined Land’s work for 40 books now. It’s also clear that neither author has a degree in quantum physics, a good thing since it prevents the book from dissolving into a mumbo-jumbo driven mess.
So don’t try to categorize The Rising. Just go out and enjoy the hell out of this wild ride that writes more rules than it follows. In my mind, Graham and Land are better together than they are apart, their pairing having fashioned a rare treat of manically paced messaging. Brilliant in all respects and an early candidate for everyone’s Best of List for 2017.
It moves well and I enjoyed it, though I'm far too old to be its target audience. There was a huge sign at the end that said, "Sequel to Come." If they write another one I'll read it, as I'm curious about the conclusion. (If they try to spin it out into a franchise I'll dump it.)
True rating: it's not a solid 4 stars but it's better than most 3 stars, so 3 1/2 stars it is.
Curiosity made the book interesting. Who/What is Alex????? I read the book quickly because of that question.
I also think this story is more for teens/young adults.
This book is a stand-alone, sort of. The book ends with a question so, you know there will be more books coming.
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