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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
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By:
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Lincoln Child
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Fasten your seat belts - the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times best-selling author Lincoln Child.
Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world on the cutting edge of technology. A theme park attracting 65,000 visitors each day, its dazzling array of robots and futuristic holograms make it a worldwide sensation. But ominous mishaps are beginning to disrupt the once flawless technology. A friendly robot goes haywire, causing panic, and a popular roller coaster malfunctions, nearly killing a teenage rider. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant computer engineer who designed much of the park’s robotics, is summoned from the East Coast to get things back on track.
On the day Warne arrives, however, Utopia is caught in the grip of something far more sinister. A group of ruthless criminals has infiltrated the park’s computerized infrastructure, giving them complete access to all of Utopia’s attractions and systems. Their communication begins with a simple and dire warning: If their demands are met, none of the 65,000 people in the park that day will ever know they were there; if not, chaos will descend, and every man, woman, and child will become a target.
As one of the brains behind Utopia, Warne finds himself thrust into a role he never imagined - trying to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. And as the minutes tick away, Warne’s struggle to outsmart his opponents grows ever more urgent, for his only daughter is among the unsuspecting crowds in the park.
Lincoln Child evokes the technological wonders of Utopia with such skill and precision it is hard to believe the park exists only in the chapters of this extraordinary book. Like Jurassic Park, Utopia sweeps listeners into a make-believe world of riveting suspense, technology, and adventure.
Utopia - where technology dazzles - and then turns deadly!
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"Child proves he is capable of fireworks (literally) at the rousing conclusion." (Publishers Weekly)
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A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon?
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Tyrannosaur Canyon
- By Amazon Customer on 10-23-05
By: Douglas Preston
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Extinction
- A Novel
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.
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Don't waste your credit
- By c. jeffries on 04-24-24
By: Douglas Preston
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Thunderhead
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written 16 years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich - the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country, but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors.
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Brain Candy
- By Leesa Morrow on 08-31-10
By: Douglas Preston, and others
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Badlands
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and then died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or… sacrifice?
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Still Life with Crows
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition-era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town's greatest mysteries.
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So Exciting! Like watching a film!
- By Venice on 08-20-03
By: Douglas Preston, and others
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Relic
- Pendergast, Book 1
- By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human.... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
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Non-Perishable
- By Snoodely on 05-26-10
By: Douglas Preston, and others
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The Lost Tomb
- And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
- By: Douglas Preston, David Grann - foreword
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
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Really good but could have been a more enjoyable l
- By Jason on 12-07-23
By: Douglas Preston, and others
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Airframe
- A Novel
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Frances Cassidy
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Airframe is nonstop Crichton: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton hallmark since The Andromeda Strain.
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A Good Listen & a Solid Story
- By Vic on 06-26-03
By: Michael Crichton
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Ice Hunt
- By: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than 70 years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close - and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law.
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Scooby Doo With Scarier Monsters
- By Mobilis on 09-30-09
By: James Rollins
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- GH
- 02-20-13
Add this to your library right now!
Who would have thought you could combine science fiction with a theme park and make a thriller worth listening to? Answer: Lincoln Child. Growing up, I remember movies called Westworld and Futureworld in the seventies. These were cheesy second-rate movies and they did have a theme park in the plot line – so this combo has been used before. But, that is where the similarities end. Utopia is a theme park, true enough; but the plot is about human nature and not technology. The tech is the background. And the story will keep you enthralled. You’ll be listening and say, “What? I’m at work already. Maybe I should sit here just a little longer.”
Scott Brick narrates. A true professional performance – enough said.
This has all of the elements that you could want for young teens, teen, and mature adult listeners. It appeals along a very big listener spectrum. Though released in 2002, the tech is fresh even ten years later. I give this a big thumbs up.
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- jim
- 03-08-11
A good read
So how do you write an entire story about an amusement park being taken over? I was a bit skeptical at first but really enjoyed listening to the story and never got bored with the plot. As with a lot of Lincoln Child books a bit too much detail at times but if you are a fan you can look past it and maybe even learn something. A good book and highly reccommended.
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- Jack Mercer
- 08-01-16
Scott Brick does it again!
Scott Brick is a gem! BY FAR the best narrator of books I have heard!
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- Steven
- 04-13-15
interesting read
I really enjoyed the story. the details of all the science stuff, fiction or not, really helped create a world that is rich and real. I really enjoyed being shown the world.
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- Charles N. Tudor
- 11-29-14
Terrific
Easily the best book I have listened to this year. Story and performance were great.
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- AC1955
- 11-09-23
Great Thriller
Not sure how I missed this book but I’m glad I finally found it. It has a great plot and the narrator does a great job.
I recommend this to anyone who likes Sci-Fi thrillers.
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- DavidH
- 12-12-24
Good book, narration and story until end
No conclusion that wraps up all the threads in the story, not even the main ones
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- Matthew
- 12-26-03
Tricked
It's funny how I came to listen to this particular audiobook. I mistakenly thought I was downloading "Utopia" by Thomas More, a book written in 1516 about an ideal world. I generally don't listen to thrillers, so this was a somewhat new experience for me. That being said, I really enjoyed the book. Although the foreshadowing was (in my opinion) a bit overdone, cluing the reader into major plot elements to come, there were enough new plot elements introduced every minute to keep you excited. The narrator does a fine job, even if the chief of security does end up sounding a bit like Christopher Walkin. I don't regret getting this book, and I enjoyed listening the entire time, but it didn't end up teaching me as much about life as I'd hoped.
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- William Bryan
- 12-01-07
A must listen
I will never look at an amusement park the same way again. We all know there must be a “behind the curtain” where the magic is made. However, the thought of evils lurking there has never crossed my mind. This book is better than a roller costar. You will love the build to the top, the screaming plunges and the twists and turns are to die for…yes die for.
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- Marquitha
- 08-13-15
An enjoyable trip into another world...
...or so it seems. Well written to have you imagine what if this type of place could exist and what it could be like if it did. I only wish I knew how a few characters faired in the end. #thriller #mystery #suspense #tagsgiving #sweepstakes #series
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