Stay: A Novel
Written by Victor Gischler
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Victor Gischler's STAY, in which a stay-at-home dad with a secret past is forced to take pre-emptive action when his family is threatened by a crime lord, with TV rights sold.
David Sparrow is an awesome stay-at-home dad. He gets his kids ready for school while his wife, Amy, commutes to New York City, where she is an Assistant District Attorney. She just inherited a major case: prosecuting crime lord Dante Payne. Meanwhile, David is content chatting with the moms at school drop-off, and doing housework.
One night, David is awoken by a sound downstairs, and discovers a man in Amy's office, going through her work documents. Instinctively, David confronts the man and a fight begins. But not a fight between a stay-at-home dad and a common burglar. No, this is a fight out of a Bourne movie and it is intense. David wins, but barely. He tries to explain to the cops that this guy was no ordinary burglar but they mostly ignore him, especially when they find out what he does for a "living."
We now discover that David is a former Solo Ops officer, a soldier who was routinely dropped in war zones with a specific mission. If he was caught, the US government would disavow all knowledge of him. David was honorably discharged after too many missions and was excited for a quiet, normal life.
However, with Dante Payne now targeting Amy and her family, David decides to reactivate himself and take the fight to the vicious criminal lord. And Dante Payne has no idea who he's just crossed.
Victor Gischler
Victor Gischler is the author of novels such as Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse and The Deputy.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this book for one of my monthly reads for a group I am in here on Goodreads and what a ride.
David Sparrow is a stay at home dad, recently put on leave from his job, while his wife is the new Assistant DA. When the witness for a trial against a local mobster, Dante Payne, is killed, his wife Amy is suddenly in danger. As it turns out, the job David is on leave from was a government agent who was a trained killer who smuggled assets out of enemy countries. He was a former Solo Ops officer, a soldier who was routinely dropped in war zones with a specific mission. David is now the only thing standing between his wife and the thugs that are trying to kill her, David and anyone else who might have stumbled upon some incriminating evidence. David sends his children on a trip to Disneyworld with his sister-in-law and brother-in-law while he and Amy go into hiding. calling upon some old army buddies to help him, he decides to take the fight to Dante Payne, not wait dociley to be killed. There is a lot of action and a lot of blood but the story is great. I am definitely going to look for more books by this author. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yowie! I actually read this book and was exclaiming, out loud, at some of the things that were happening in it!! It was horrific in parts but a VERY fast book to read because it was almost impossible to put down wondering what, on earth, was going to happen next! So, four stars for excitement even though I would want nothing this to ONLY be COMPLETELY and entirely in Gischler's imagination, based on no kind of reality. Not sure I really LIKE good ol' David Sparrow at ALL in the end.....or any of the people he was dealing with.