The Lie Maker - Linwood Barclay Audiobook

Written by Linwood Barclay
Read by Johnathan McClain, Graham Halstead
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: May 16, 2023
Duration: 10:20:49

Your dad’s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.

These are some of the last words Jack Givins’ father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could.

Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He’s a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So when the U.S. Marshals approach him with a lucrative opportunity, he’s in no position to turn them down. They’re recruiting writers like Jack to create false histories for people in witness protection—people like Jack’s father.

The coincidence is astonishing to Jack at first, but he soon realizes this may be a chance to find his dad. Only there’s one problem—Jack’s father hasn’t made contact with his handlers recently, and they have no idea where he is. He could be in serious danger, and Jack may be the only one who can find him.

But how will he find a man he’s never truly known, a man who has done terrible things in his lifetime and made some deadly enemies in the process—enemies who wouldn’t think twice about using his own son against him.

“..Barclay does a bang-up job of mixing and matching characters and plotlines and building suspense. A big reveal badly stretches credulity, though, and for a fiction writer, Jack proves to have a limited imagination. But Barclay’s latest is a fun ride nonetheless, with dips and swerves that should delight his fans. A relentless mystery with an affecting dose of father-son intrigue. “–Kirkus Reviews