Top Ten [Unabridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Ryne Douglas Pearson (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

The heart and mind of a serial killer known as Michaelangelo. 7 cds

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078875176X
• ISBN-13: 978-0788751769
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,320,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A chilling thriller, September 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Top Ten (Hardcover)

Because of FBI Special Agent Ariel Grace's excellent reputation, her supervisor Jack Trale, Chief of the Atlanta field office, allows her to deliver Mills DeVane to him. So confident in her abilities, Jack sets up a press conference. A chagrined Ariel fails to convey Mills and an irate Jack transfers Ariel to Task Force 10. Her new boss welcomes her because he needs agents to catch # 10 on the FBI's Most Wanted List, serial killer Michelangelo who uses his victims as a canvas.

The superego Michelangelo is livid with the FBI for leaving him at the bottom of their list. He feels he has earned the # 1 slot and takes out his frustrations by hacking a postal clerk to pieces. Ariel finds a clue that leads her to believe that # 10 plans to kill the other nine individuals sharing the list with him. She participates in a special task force meeting that includes her former supervisor. Jack informs her that Mills is an undercover agent with a vital mission that requires his full protection at any cost. However, Michelangelo, Ariel, and Mills appear ready to defy physics and occupy the same space when the inevitable collision occurs.

Readers will recognize that TOP TEN is one of the top ten thrillers of the year. Ryne Douglas Pearson, author of SIMPLE SIMON, has written a one-sitting reading experience that keeps the audience compulsively hooked to learn what happens next. The author provides a brilliant depiction of what it feels like for a law enforcement official to go so deep undercover that he becomes a perpetrator committing the same crimes as the people he infiltrated. FBI buffs and thriller fans will gain much pleasure from this exciting tale.

Harriet Klausner

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exciting and Exhilarating From Start to Finish, May 22, 2005

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Alive in Christ - See all my reviews

This review is from: Top Ten (Paperback)

Yes, it is predictable in some parts only because you know the goal of our serial killer. Other than that the book has awesome imagery that makes some horror novels look like children's books.

Ryne Douglas Pearson knows his audience and gives them a roller coaster into the mind of a mad man!!!

Not for the overly sophisicated person who can't allow his imagination to run rampant.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice !, February 7, 2001

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David D (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Top Ten (Hardcover)

An entertaining and exciting thriller that reads like a Hollywood action movie. A bit over the top sometimes, but hey : it's fiction !

5 stars, not a masterpiece but very good in its genre.