Book Description
An Audible Original Drama
This was to be her last day alive.
The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion.
Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game.
While the show is on air, he calls people from the phonebook at random.
If they pick up the phone with a certain slogan, a hostage is set free.
If they don’t, then the hostage is unceremoniously shot.The man threatens to continue playing this game until his fiancée arrives at the studio.
The only problem is that his fiancée died several months ago….AMOK is a gripping audiodrama and tense psychological hostage thriller set in a Berlin Radio Station, from the internationally renowned author of the best-selling Audible Original Drama The Child.
AMOK was a finalist in The Audie Awards 2016
Publication Details
Author: Sebastian Fitzek
Book Title: Amok
Publisher: Audible Originals
Publication Date: 7 May 2015
Format: Audiobook
ASIN: B0DTVSCJL5
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Narrator: Natascha McElhone · Adrian Lester · Rafe Spall · Peter Firth · Brendan Coyle · Hugh Skinner
About the Author
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the traineeship at a private radio station he switched to the competition as head of entertainment and became chief editor later on, thereafter becoming an independent executive consultant and format developer for numerous media companies in Europe.
You can read about Sebastian Fitzek on his website http://www.sebastianfitzek.de – also available in English
My Review
This was a new experience for me. I’ve enjoyed audiobooks before but have never experienced anything like this. Instead of one voice reading the book it was a whole cast – a top-quality FABULOUS cast – who brought the characters to life in a new and exciting way. This production, or should I say drama, with a whole cast of actors plus accompanying sound effects was one a whole new level of entertainment.
This drama was based on the novel, Amok by German author Sebastian Fitzek, and was the first Audible drama I listened to and loved every minute of it. I have since listened to The Child which was written by the same author. Review to follow.
The tension is constantly maintained at an almost unbearable level with twists coming thick and fast making this a truly captivating experience.
Highly recommended listening!
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