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Title details for The Program by Gregg Hurwitz - Available

The Program

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by Gregg Hurwitz
Erik Steele
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Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim Rackley is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations. Tim becomes enmeshed with a diverse band of characters-from the charismatic, messianic leader T. D. Betters to a cult reject burnout to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herself-and finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake: innocent minds-maybe even his own.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Tim Rackley

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 1, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792744498
      • File size: 435285 KB
      • Duration: 15:06:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Get with THE PROGRAM--thanks to a multidimensional performance by Erik Steele, it's sure to entertain you. An ex-U.S. deputy marshal whose daughter was murdered is re-deputized to infiltrate a cult to rescue another couple's daughter. The cult leader, "The Teacher," has developed a brainwashing technique that lures unhappy youngsters from their families and friends. Steele excels as the creepy-voiced cult leader and lends stark reality to the gruff but likable lawman. The only fault here lies with the author--not the reader. The brainwashing technique is referred to so often that it becomes tedious. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dylan Baker gives a strong performance in this story about mind control and murder. Tim Rackley's recent loss of his daughter compels him to try to save another family from similar pain. As a result, he agrees to resume his career with the U.S. Marshals Services in order to retrieve the daughter of an influential Hollywood producer from a cult. Hurwitz has done his homework when it comes to methods of psychological terrorism, and Baker skillfully negotiates the numerous characters in a way that makes it easy for the listener to follow the story line and understand how cults manipulate the naive. S.K.P. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 12, 2004
      Hurwitz's fifth novel continues the story of Tim Rackley, the U.S. marshal introduced in 2003's The Kill Clause
      . Tim and Dray, his wife, are slowly coming to grips with the loss of their seven-year-old daughter, Ginny, whose kidnapping and brutal murder was the focus of the previous novel. A more conventional series hero would be wreaking vengeance, but Tim's grief is plausibly amorphous. It wasn't always so. Rash vigilante action caused him to lose his marshal's job in The Kill Clause
      , but he's given a chance to get his old job back when a brusque Hollywood producer begs him to find his daughter, Leah Henning, a missing Pepperdine coed. Leah may have been kidnapped by an unidentified cult, and Tim must bone up on mind control and manipulation. Hurwitz illustrates Tim's lessons via Leah herself, whose step-by-step indoctrination is as creepy as it is believable. Intending to persuade Leah to leave with him for deprogramming, Tim infiltrates the Program, facing off with charismatic cult leader TD Betters, who has created a seductively logical society based on self-help tenets. Once Tim's inside, he realizes that rescuing Leah isn't enough: he's determined to blow the Program inside out. Grounded in character and believable detail, Hurwitz's thriller engages on every level. Agent, Matthew Guma. (Aug.)

      Forecast:
      The cult plot is a little shopworn, but Hurwitz gives it enough new twists to
      keep readers hooked.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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