Download Seattle Noir AudioBook Free
Launched by the summertime '04 award-winning best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Literature remains its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each booklet is comprised of all-new reports, each one set in a distinct community or location within the individual city. Brand-new reports by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, Simon Lumber, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta. Early on Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police not immune to problem and graft. With the mid-50s, the town possessed added Boeing to its say to popularity, but was still a typically blue-collar burg that was infamously referred to as "a cultural dustbin" by the Seattle Symphony's first conductor. Present-day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and Starbucks. The city is famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theater, and golf club scene that many could have thought improbable just a few decades ago. However, many things never change - crime being one of them. Seattle's evolution to high-finance and high-tech has simply provided sustained opportunity and encourage to prospects who might be ethically, morally, or financially challenged (crooks, quite simply). But most crooks are just ordinary people, not professional thieves or crime bosses - they might be your nice neighbor, your wife or enthusiast, your grocer or hairdresser, your minister or banker or lifelong friend - yet even the most upright and genuine of them sometimes land to temptation. In the reports of Seattle Noir, you will see: a rich couple whose matrimony is filled with not-so-quiet desperation; a debit card scam that will go over-limit; femmes fatales and hommes fatales; a delicatessen owner whose circumstance is significantly less than kosher; a famous midget professional whose movie assignments begin to shrink when he starts growing taller; an ex-cop who learns too much; a group of mystery authors whose fiction causes friction; a Local American shaman captured in a web of secrets and tribal allegiances; gender, lies, and slippery slopes.... and a solid of personas that always want more, not less.... unless.... The complete set of narrators includes Joe Barrett, Bronson Pinchot, Farah Bala, Carol Monda, Kevin T. Collins, Jonathan Davis, Scott Brick, Johnny Heller, David Ledoux, Kevin Free, William Dufris, and Ralph Lister.
