New World Orders
Edward G. Talbot joins the ranks of those making free serialized audiobooks of their work, today releasing New World Orders:
In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it’s already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But they have a plan to save themselves.
Twenty years later, Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson stumble onto the conspiracy, and every answer they find is accompanied by more questions – and more deaths.
Jack is a former idealist, turned cynical by his years working as a New York tabloid editor. But his enthusiasm returns as he looks into the work of a NASA scientist who tells Jack about cover-ups at the space agency. Jim is a detective with little patience for conspiracy nuts. But he hates loose ends, and is unable to let go of the inconsistencies in another suspicious NASA death. Soon, his investigation leads him to Jack, and they join forces.
As Jack and Jim dig deeper, they are targeted by the type of killers that don’t usually miss. From Washington to Las Vegas to the Middle East, they manage to stay one step ahead of their pursuers in a race to expose the truth, and maybe, just maybe, save the world.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
HI everyone, this is Edward G. Talbot. Don’t be shy – leave a comment and tell us what you think of the book!
July 30th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’m enjoying this book. I’m caught up though. Good story. Timely topic. Excellent audio!
August 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I’m liking the book – I think it’s very nicely done! That said – Veronica’s voice is KILLING me…
September 21st, 2008 at 8:14 am
This is a great story and very well done podcast. You don’t need four episodes to get into this story, one is enough.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Great audiobook! But I agree that the Veronica’s voice is a little too flat and “matter of fact”…
November 19th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Awesome epilogue!! Did not see that coming! Very well done. Sews the whole story together. Loved it.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Great story. Some of the accents were a little odd but I agree that the audio quality was good. The story is the main thing and that was really engaging. Certainly one of the better podcasts I’ve listened to.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Great story and premise though could use some refinement in execution. Following is just some constructive criticism..I enjoyed the book overall.
The jumping timeline was difficult to follow..this isn’t a book you can just flip back a page..would be nice to have a few more clues about what time period were in.
The woman who read the female parts did just that..read. It continuously took me out of the story and was difficult to differentiate between characters. Male voice was very good…loved his George HW Bush!
Would be nice to have a bookmark to skip the “what happen last episode”.
Thanks for posting & good luck with future work!
January 20th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for the comments, everyone. Dave, we agree with you that the time jumping didn’t work as well in audio form. We should have given more clues.The next book (out in Summer 2009 with luck) will pretty much be sequential after the first episode.
We’ve gotten both very positive and very negative comments on the episode recaps, so we’re still thinking that one through. Maybe an audio cue telling people where to fast forward to to bypass it, like the bookmark you suggest.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Talk about a conspiracy!
E.G. Talbot has created a powerful story that had me saying, “This could be real!” I enjoyed the characters, plot twists and the voices! I felt close to Carrie as a listener and I feared for Rachel. Great job! Thank you sincerely for putting it out there for free!
April 20th, 2009 at 5:33 am
I’m in the middle of the story and it has got me!
I love the way how fact, fiction and what could have been, are mixed together.
The male voices are good, I liked Saddam’s and George H.W. Bush’s voice very much,
but the female voice was from time to time a bit out if feel with the person, or story.
The story is a subtle way to tell the people there might be more behind the so-called ‘conspiracy theories’ than the media would have us believe.
For me this is the second great story I find at podiobooks.com, thanks for all the hours of listening pleasure.
And for Edward G. Talbot,…
Congratulations with a story well written and thought out. I love the little links in the story to things as the Kennedy assasination, Roswell, new world order, Deep Underground Millitary Bases and other things pushed into the ridiculous by the corporate media.
And I had no problem with the different times the story is going through, conspiracies have a habit of taking longer than the people involved live.
The best of luck with your new book(s).
Roland
From The Netherlands
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
I loved the story, and I would buy the book if there was one to buy. The narration killed me and I couldn’t finish the story, even after the narration got better. The narrator would have done the book a service, by not trying to dramatize and simply narrate.