The Escape
Artist. By Brad Meltzer.
Narrators: Scott
Brick & January LaVoy. 2018. Hachette
Audio.
ISBN13: 9781478949374 (Unabridged
audiobook, 12 hours
45 mins).
Even though it’s his rotation off, when Jim "Zig" Zigarowski sees the name Sergeant First Class Nola Brown on the list of new arrivals, he makes sure he is the one to work on her body. Zig is a civilian mortician at Dover Air Force Base. When the broken bodies of American soldiers are flown back home, Zig pieces them back together. He is known for his talent and dedication, but it isn’t a love for his craft that drives him. Zig wants to be able to provide closure for the families receiving home their loved ones. And for a brief moment in time, Zig knew Nola; it feels necessary to him to be the one to see to her. Only, the body on the table isn’t Nola. And the scrap of paper in a small canister Zig retrieves from the body’s stomach proves Nola is alive, and that trouble is following her.
Meltzer brings together Zig and Nola, who is the U.S. Army’s artist-in-residence, and ensnares them in a covert sleight of hand. It appears that Operation: Bluebook, has been resurrected and greed is at the helm. The Escape Artist is an entertaining story with plenty of action and intriguing politics and history tracing back to the greatest escape artist of all, Harry Houdini.
416 pages
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Even though it’s his rotation off, when Jim "Zig" Zigarowski sees the name Sergeant First Class Nola Brown on the list of new arrivals, he makes sure he is the one to work on her body. Zig is a civilian mortician at Dover Air Force Base. When the broken bodies of American soldiers are flown back home, Zig pieces them back together. He is known for his talent and dedication, but it isn’t a love for his craft that drives him. Zig wants to be able to provide closure for the families receiving home their loved ones. And for a brief moment in time, Zig knew Nola; it feels necessary to him to be the one to see to her. Only, the body on the table isn’t Nola. And the scrap of paper in a small canister Zig retrieves from the body’s stomach proves Nola is alive, and that trouble is following her.
Meltzer brings together Zig and Nola, who is the U.S. Army’s artist-in-residence, and ensnares them in a covert sleight of hand. It appears that Operation: Bluebook, has been resurrected and greed is at the helm. The Escape Artist is an entertaining story with plenty of action and intriguing politics and history tracing back to the greatest escape artist of all, Harry Houdini.
Narrators
Brick and LaVoy
are top notch. Top notch!
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