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    Tier One
    Tier One
    Tier One
    Audiobook11 hours

    Tier One

    Written by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In a world violated by terror, the old lines have blurred. Meet the next generation of covert ops.

    John Dempsey’s life—as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper—is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice.

    But how does a man torn between duty and revenge walk the line and preserve his soul?

    As Dempsey struggles with the games of spies, the case propels him across the globe in a desperate effort to prevent a new, horrifying attack on American soil.

    Once, John Dempsey followed orders blindly. Now he sees behind the curtain, and the security of the civilized world rests on one question: Can a Tier One Navy SEAL adapt and become the world’s most lethal spy?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9781522639527
    Tier One
    Author

    Brian Andrews

    Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran and nuclear engineer who served as an officer on a fast-attack submarine in the Pacific. He is a Park Leadership Fellow, has a master’s degree in business from Cornell, and holds a psychology degree from Vanderbilt. He is the author of the Think Tank thrillers, The Infiltration Game, and The Calypso Directive; and coauthor of the Wall Street Journal bestselling Tier One thriller series (Tier One, War Shadows, and Crusader One) with friend and fellow veteran Jeffrey Wilson. Andrews is a husband, father, and advocate of planetary stewardship, and would like to someday visit Mars. Discover more about the author at www.andrews-wilson.com or follow him on Twitter @bandrewsjwilson.

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    • 3/5
      Bit of America-centric, badass, ex-Navy Seal, Black-Ops espionage porn in the spirit of Jack Carr, Jack Mars, Mark Greany, Stephen Coontz & Co. for us kids who never grew up.

      It has a polished, well-written, briskly-paced action-packed intellectual guilty pleasure. It even has a few interestingly sketched characters to add some substance…but not too much.

      The narrator, Ray Porter’s delivery is excellent, breathes life into and is a natural for this type of material.

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    • 4/5
      Good. Typical thriller. Good story line and character development. I enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      Wow ? yes! I’m a man of few words! Great read!
    • 5/5
      Everything it was great couldn’t be any better loved it
    • 1/5
      This could have been a good story. The telling of the assaults include assaults on your ears. The authors think nothing of taking God’s name in vain. The book is loaded with profanity. They really do not know the true character of a man. A man is not tough because he uses the F word in every other sentence. I recommend staying away from this book. It will leave you feeling dirtied. ?
    • 1/5
      So tired of the needless and intrusive profanity. Deleted the book because of it.
    • 1/5
      The story seemed ok, however large portions of the recording were missing,
    • 1/5
      I wanted to like this, as I like thrillers but I didn't. This has some great reviews and I tried a few times to read this, but I couldn't finish. I think it's the way it's written and I didn't like the dialogue, especially the acronyms.
    • 4/5
      The first chapter of "Tier One" is filled with action and immediately caught my attention. I learned about the different characters and felt close to these Tier One Navy Seals, and cheered them on during a mission to eliminate a group of global terrorist leaders who were meeting in the Middle East for an emergency meeting. The mission looked like it was going to be a success, when suddenly, the seal team is massacred in a single explosion and their ToC group - in another country - were also murdered at the same time. My jaw dropped...the story was over? There was a sole survivor, but suffered burns over much of his body. After completing his many surgeries and therapy, he is asked by his former boss to join a new clandestine group to find those responsible for the killings. Here, the story loses its momentum and gets bogged down while a new team is formed and training commences.During this time, readers learn about Seal practices, planning, and the organization, but not too much about these new characters that flesh out the rest of the story. There were excessive acronyms and technical descriptions of weaponry, seemingly, every time a character chose a weapon. I did, however, find it interesting how the authors presented the perspective and plans of the terrorist leadership, and how they brainwash followers.I also found it interesting on how this group managed to collect intel about their adversaries and how they continued to piece a puzzle together from scratch. The team was then able to ID a mole within the US that fed the terrorist leader confidential info which allowed for the Seal massacre, and also exposed the next planned terrorist activity in the US. This book could be a stand alone, but the ending leaves it open for another installment as the Special Group's mission was not completed as planned.The story was interesting but I feel it was too long. There are two more books available in the series, but I'll pass on continuing this read. Other potential readers may find this book intense and chose to follow up on the teams' mission to kill every terrorist responsible for the Seal murders.
    • 4/5
      This was a really good book, a cross between military fiction and espionage. Nice hot action, nonstop. Sometimes it crosses the lines of believability, which is why I marked it down from a five to a four star book, but it's borderline, say 4.5. Frankly, though -- and this is sad -- I read it so long ago, it's hard for me to remember any details to write a detailed review, and for that I apologize. I used to write hundreds of very detailed reviews, but a year and a half ago or more, started developing more very serious health problems that have left me with the ability to read about 5% of what I once did, and I haven't been able to write book reviews in many, many months, not since last November, I think. Thus, I have about 120-140 finished books, both hard copy and digital, lying around waiting to be reviewed, stacks of them in my office, where they've been sitting and collecting, growing in higher and higher stacks for the past year and a half, and I feel guilty for letting those who read my reviews down, but reality is what it is, and if I can't do it, I can't do it. I'm sorry. I harbor fantasies of some time getting to quite a few of those books, whether just a short paragraph, or a full 2500 word review. But I've got a lot of stuff to deal with, so I'm trying not to pressure myself. I've got enough of that in "real life." I don't want to pile it on myself for writing unpaid book reviews that very few people read or care about.In any event, I enjoyed this book a lot. Not my usual genre, but I like dropping into this one a couple of times a year, and this was a pleasant surprise. Like I said, spies, US/Russia military, revenge, power hungry madmen. Hell yeah! If you like this type, I'd definitely give it a try. I don't think you'll be disappointed. 4.5 stars. Certainly recommended.