General Information

Title:				Abandon
Author:			Blake Crouch
Read By:			Luke Daniels
Copyright:			2009
Audiobook Copyright:		2009
Genre:				Thriller
Series				None
Publisher:			Brilliance Audio
Abridged:			No

Original Media Information

Media:				CD
Number:			9 + Bonus SS
Source:			Library
Condition:			Good

File Information

Number of MP3s:		9 + 1 SS
Total Duration:		Approx 11 + .66 bonus hours
Total MP3 Size:		mb
Ripped By:			cronic
Ripped With:			Audiograbber
Encoded With:			Lame
Encoded At:			64 Kb
ID3 Tags:			Yes

Posting

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files, I have combined the tracks into disk files by use of zero
compression of my zip program. To extract all the tracks in the original
format, change the file extension to zip and use your unzip utility. I
made spot checks of the files and didn't pick up on any problems.

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Book Description

From Publishers Weekly
At the start of this bloated thriller from Crouch (Desert Places), Abigail
Foster, a Manhattan freelance journalist, reluctantly agrees to accompany her
father, Lawrence Kendall-who abandoned her as a child-and paranormal
photographers Emmett and June Tozer, to the remote remains of Abandon, Colo.
The inhabitants of Abandon all vanished without a trace on Christmas Day 1893,
and Abigail thinks she'll write an article on the Tozers and the ghost town's
history. The present-day hikers face a number of obstacles, starting with an
unexpected blizzard and including the arrival of ex-Marines intent on finding
millions of dollars worth of gold supposedly stashed somewhere in Abandon.
Despite the book's intriguing premise, the action soon devolves into a
Rambo-style melee, with enough blood and guts to put off weak stomachs. By the
time Abandon's fate is revealed in the overly drawn-out climax, few readers
will care. (July)
Copyright c Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.

Review
On Christmas Day 1893, the tiny, remote gold-mining town of Abandon, Colorado,
ceased to be. No trace of the population was ever found. More than a century
later, a historian, a journalist, and two paranormal investigators trek into
the ghost town with varying purposes. Crouch tells his tale in alternating
chapters, but the reader ultimately learns that the story of both the
residents and the latter-day visitors is one of gold, greed, and murder-and a
pinch of madness. Abandon is an ambitious and largely effective suspense
novel. The portrayal of life in Abandon is rich with details of brutal
hardship, suffering, and a gnawing sense of creepiness. The modern
investigators are tried by cold, a blizzard, avalanche dangers, rotted
buildings that may collapse at any moment, and the eeriness of the derelict
town. But Crouch has two sets of characters, and nearly all have a backstory.
Some work; some are strained. Even so, the palpable suspense just keeps
building, and many thriller fans-especially those who like a touch of
horror-will lose sleep to find out how it all ends. - Booklist