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The Unwilling: A Novel Audio CD – CD, February 2, 2021

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“We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.” ―Unknown Soldier

Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style.

Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison.

Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women.

But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners, leading to a riot on the bus. The woman finds it funny in the moment, but is savagely murdered soon after.

Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. Determined to prove Jason innocent, Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns and outlaw motorcycle gangs.

What he discovers there is a truth more disturbing than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive wants him back in prison.

This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave.

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“Another scorcher from Hart ... [he] keeps us engaged ... subtly folding quiet, character-driven moments into the story while still powering the narrative toward an all-stops-out ending―and a chilling coda.” -- Booklist, starred review

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John Hart is the New York Times bestselling author of The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, Iron House, Redemption Road, and The Hush. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (February 2, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250752213
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250752215
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.15 x 1.14 x 6.08 inches

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JOHN HART is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, THE KING OF LIES, DOWN RIVER, THE LAST CHILD,IRON HOUSE, REDEMPTION ROAD and THE HUSH. His seventh novel, THE UNWILLING, be will be released on February 2, 2021. The only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels, Hart has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Book Prize, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty language and can be found in over seventy countries. He works from home on a Virginia farm, where he lives with his wife, daughters and four dogs.

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B.

Are you kidding me?

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021

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Good Lord! I love this author any other time, have read all of his books. I could not even finish this one. The absolute gore, violence, animal torture, totally one dimensional characters and writing, made me think John Hart didn't even write this book. It's beyond terrible.

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A horror story..

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021

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Hart's first four books are and will always be among my favorites of all time but this one misses the mark. Am always willing to suspend disbelief for a good story but this one is too grim, too gory, to far-fetched to be remotely believable. SPOILER ALERT. If it is possible in this world that a psychopath murderer can control the prison in which he resides, order up ghoulish murders on a whim, etc., not a world I want to even pretend is real. No satisfying ending here, a hanging thread instead. I've recommended Hart's first four books to everyone, read the others, but cannot recommend this one. It's a horror story; not what I expected or wanted.

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Poetic Justice At It's Finest

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2021

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This is not a story about happiness. Even when a little 'joy' manages to peek around a corner it is quickly swallowed by the overwhelming forces of unholy deeds and foul odors. For it is a passionate discourse on some of the most evil people and events ever to be combined into one novel: The Vietnam War, Hell's Angels, heroin traffic and gun running, dysfunctional family relationships, military cover-ups, torture and murder, and cruel predators slaughtering the lambs among us. What can possibly stand up to these various incarnations of evil? Perhaps it is the evolving family relationships of those who continue to learn about one another. Or perhaps it is something more insidious.

This novel presents "good" in its basic guise versus "evil" in many of its disguises. Not since "Iron House" has author John Hart used his considerable talents and imagination to present such a passionate and suspenseful story confronting evil in such horrifying detail. Mr. Hart sucks you into this fast moving tale and immediately gives the reader a load of pregnant dread to carry on his or her back. And look out when the water breaks because anyone and everyone is a potential drowning victim. Bravo Mr. Hart!

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Taxvictim

Hart's best novel yet.

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2021

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I've read all of this author's books. Until now, I thought "The Last Child" was his best, but now he has a better one! If you are already familiar with Hart, you know he is a master of the "literary thriller", meaning a combination of suspense, action, family drama, all presented in a very fine writing style with some Southern flair. The Unwilling moves faster than his other novels. I finished it in two nights. Great characters, interlocking stories, everything moving toward the climax.

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John Hart at his very best.

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2021

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I have read every John Hart novel. All have been exceptional writing. Mr. Hart is not for the faint of heart. This book is very graphic. But what a compelling story. His work is so beautifully crafted. I was totally invested in the characters from Chapter One. There is no modern writer who can craft a work of fiction like this writer. There is not a wasted word. I came of age during the Vietnam war. No writer has for me has ever come close to capturing the complexity of this particular time in history like this writer. My only regret: I will need to wait until he writes again. Read this book!

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JCB

Bizarrely Intriguing

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2022

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I’m a huge fan of John Hart, yet it took me a while to decide to read this book due to the tales timeline … Vietnam Era.
I’m so glad I finally did. ‘The Unwilling’ title hints at the underlying theme that ties this often disjointed story together! It’s intriguing, suspenseful, & bizarrely profound! The author packs so many scenarios into one storyline, making it seem disjointed & maybe even containing parts that feel unnecessary, but NO … the finale expertly seals up the gaps in a novel with more zigs & zags than expected. As always…we’ll done John Hart!

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Stormrider11

Best Book I've read from John Hart

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

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I believe The Unwilling is John Hart's best book yet. I've liked a lot of the previous stories, particularly Redemption Road, but this book doesn't have a weak spot. The characters are realistic and believable and the tone feels right. Everything about the story is engaging and there are a lot of different elements at play, so weaving everything together is no small accomplishment. I highly recommend picking it up.

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Carolina Scotty

Every bit as good as Iron House

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021

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It usually takes me a full week to read a book, because I like to savor them for an hour before going to sleep. I couldn't do that with this book. I found myself reading well past midnight for the 3 or 4 nights it took me to finish. If I were a couple of decades younger, I'd probably have stayed up all night!

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Siltone

Why I was willing to read The Unwilling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2021

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I was drawn to John Hart's latest offering after thoroughly enjoying the four other novels I had read by this same author. Mr Hart has that enviable skill of being able to vividly draw his characters, and they are usually folk who you get to empathise with, and who you want to get through the trials and tribulations that often beset them. It's his strong characterisations that I find most appealing. In The Unwilling, we are introduced to two brothers and their father who each have their own demons.

Anyway, after just a couple of chapters, I was well and truly pulled into this twisty, turvy tale, and it did prove to be the proverbial page-turner. However, this novel wasn't quite as good as I'd expected. As I've come to expect from Mr Hart, his writing was exquisite in places, and I thought he did a wonderful job of depicting the early 1970's, and the effects of the Vietnam War on the American people. I did get a strong sense of time and place, and was soon rooting for the French family. But, as the story progressed, it felt to me as if the author was trying just a bit too hard on this occasion to appeal to a wider audience. In doing so, I thought the plot sometimes stretched credibility. It's a bit of a cliché, but a fiction writer is supposed to make the unbelievable believable, yet even I struggled at times to accept the plausibility of some of the players in this story and the predicaments they found themselves in. As I mentioned earlier, John Hart is such a skilful writer - so much so that I was more than 'willing' to be taken on this journey, and I did stay the full course, not skipping any sections - it just wasn't quite as enjoyable a trip as the ones I'd experienced with Redemption Road or The Last Child (both brilliant by the way). 3.5 rounded up to a 4/5.

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P Hayes

Violent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2021

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I have read all of John Harts books and loved them all, but this one is different. I could not read more than half of it, as I knew how violent it was going to be.
Too much about the violence that goes on in American prisons and corrupt wardens.
I hope he goes back to his previous style of writing.

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Donny Rock

Not for the squeamish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2021

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A returning Vietnam, via prison, veteran unwittingly creates havoc in his hometown. A good plot, entirely plausible, carries the story with ever-increasing speed, to climax after climax. Even the central villain is somewhat likable. The characters are all well developed. The sense of period in American modern history is strong. (Nobody has a mobile phone). This is a really enjoyable yarn

JohntheGees

Its all here, drugs, guns, police, prison and lots of characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2021

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Wow, what a good read, input from all the different characters, a couple of 18 year old kids, the girls, the marine, the millionaire ( a little over the top ) the prison wardens, the police plus corruption. Twisted with lots of sub plots and historical baggage.

A. W. Skinner

Ludicrous plot.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2021

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I actually finished this, but I have no idea why. The plot is absolutely ludicrous, and I had no sympathy for or empathy with any of the characters. Having finished it less than an hour ago, I cannot name any of the characters, other than the sociopathic/psychopathic billionaire X. Save your money.

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