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    Rock Island Rock
    Rock Island Rock
    Rock Island Rock
    Audiobook11 hours

    Rock Island Rock

    Written by Eyre Price

    Narrated by Jeff Cummings

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    About this audiobook

    Rock Island Rock is the pulse-pounding second act in the evolution of the Crossroads series, which began with Blues Highway Blues, voted Best Blues Book of 2012 by Blues411.com.

    Owing a debt to the mysterious bluesman, Mr. Atibon, reluctant hero Daniel Erickson finds himself back on the run with his lady love, Vicki Bean, and hitman friend, Moog Turner. Now the three are racing to track down the killer of a rock and roll superstar. They travel a violent and dangerous road, littered with obsessive FBI agents, vengeful Russian mobsters, brutal cartel assassins, and psychotic biker gangs. But no matter how fast and far Daniel and company run, there’s no escaping the blood they’ve spilled—and an unspeakable evil waiting for them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9781480504837
    Rock Island Rock
    Author

    Eyre Price

    Eyre Price has travelled the Blues Highway, from Bob Dylan’s boyhood Minnesota home all the way to Professor Longhair’s shrine in New Orleans. With his son by his side, he’s made pilgrimages to Graceland, Sun Studios, Stax, and Chess Records. He’s stood at the crossroads where legend says Robert Johnson sold his soul, and he’s walked the alley between the Ryman and Hank William’s favorite honky tonk. The result is Blues Highway Blues, a novel reflecting his passion for American music, from the Delta’s blues to Seattle’s grunge. Eyre and his wife, Jaime, live in central Illinois (for now), where they are raising their son to have a wandering heart and a musical ear.

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    • 5/5
      Rock Island Rock is a combination of heart-pounding suspense, philosophical exploration and literary beauty, all set to a rock music backdrop. Daniel met his fate on Robert Johnson's crossroads, where he struck a deal with the shadowy bluesman. Now the direction his life takes is in Atibon's hands.The action here is intense and, at times, graphic. But that's balanced with well-developed characters and a thought-provoking story. As we take the journey with Daniel, we explore the often thin line between good and evil. We ask ourselves if it's okay for a good person to do horrible things for the right reasons. And maybe we even root for him as he kills the people in his way.I wish Daniel's choices had been more open-ended, rather than the do or die sort of thing that offers no real choice at all. Still, the story gives Daniel plenty of wiggle room, allowing us to see the kind of man he is. This is the second book in the series. I didn't read the first one, Blues Highway Blues: A Crossroads Thriller, and had no problem following the story here. But I enjoyed this one so much that I plan to go back and read the first.
    • 4/5
      Nelson DeMille once said, "We're all pilgrims on the same journey -- but some pilgrims have better road maps." It's that sensibility that grounds Eyre Price's debut novel, "Blues Highway Blues," and it's the map of a century of American music that underpins a wild, offbeat, violent and ultimately rewarding journey of reluctant self-discovery for Price's pilgrim, disgraced Los Angeles music promoter Daniel Erickson. In the twisted wreckage of sacrificing his family and nearly his life on the irreparably warped altar of the popular song, Erickson gambles what's left of his future on a doomed dive into reality television production funded by a heartless Russian gangster's million dollars. Erickson's venture fails monumentally, and he'll have to surrender to the Russian the secret cash stashed in Erickson's home safe to buy himself and his estranged son long lives. Ungraciously accompanied by a couple of the Russian's thugs, Erickson opens his safe only to find a compact disc where his own million bucks used to hide. But it's not a total loss -- the CD has a blues song whose peculiar lyrics point Erickson towards the Mississippi Delta crossroads where legendary bluesman Robert Johnson purportedly traded his soul to the devil for guitar mastery. The song hints Johnson's crossroads is where Erickson will discover his heisted treasure. His straits beneath dire and sinking fast, Erickson slips his handlers and begins the long, strange trip to the Delta and beyond, pursued throughout by scary monsters and super creeps. With an occasional leg up from someone not quite of this world, Erickson finds himself propelled on a fiendish scavenger hunt through America's musical meccas; first along the so-called "Blues Highway" from New Orleans to Memphis, and then to Seattle via Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York, desperately following a cross-country trail of cryptic lyrical breadcrumbs to reclaim his money and his soul before he loses them both too soon."Blues Highway Blues" will appeal to fans of both thrillers, and American music. Price knows both subjects well, and aptly weaves them into a droll and entertaining morality play hinged on a simple truth: we all have our crossroads to tread, so be sure to tread them well.