He's obviously having a ball with Hard Magic, gruffing up his voice for the hardboiled Jake and the various G-men and employing a countrified voice for Faye, a young farm girl who can teleport across great distances and becomes vital to saving the world from destruction by the Geo-Tel. Far from his manic days as Balki on Perfect Strangers, Pinchot is a warm, imminently listenable narrator. Edgar Hoover (yeah, he's still around) would like to eradicate.Īctor Bronson Pinchot has become a regular go-to for audiobooks and the reason is obvious - the guy knows how to bring a story to life. The hero here is Jake Sullivan, a detective and ex-con who is set free by the FBI to track criminal Actives, which J. It's become commonplace for some people to defy gravity, teleport, manipulate animals, and heal by touch. Except this isn't quite the New York you might expect, but an alternate universe where zeppelins moor at the top of the Empire State Building, the Titanic never sank, and mad scientist Nikola Tesla has created a devastating weapon called the Geo-Tel. Larry Correia has already made a name for himself in the sci-fi/fantasy world with his Monster Hunter books, but now he's written the first in new series that takes place in New York in the 1930s, filled with dubious federal agents, hardboiled detectives, and dames with a whole lotta chutzpah.
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