Best-selling and award-winning author J.W. Zarek releases The Devil Pulls the Strings, a new epic fantasy audiobook
Hello again, dear audiobooks friends! In today’s spotlight article I am really glad to let you all know that best-selling and award-winning author J.W. Zarek has released a new audiobook named The Devil Pulls the Strings.
This is the first novel in The Archivist Series and received the Literary Titan Award, and 5-Star Book Reviews from critics and readers alike. The audio production is just a few minutes under 10 hours in duration, it’s narrated by award-winning actor and experienced storyteller Curt Bonnem, while the Publisher is Author’s Republic.
Let’s take a look at the Publisher’s Summary in order to find out more about this promising story and after that, I will tell you a few really interesting things about the author and the narrator.
Do you like when time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide?
The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians, is an epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy. It weaves bromance, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music, and time travel.
Boone Daniels, 22, has problems, debilitating panic attacks, gut-wrenching guilt, an evil spirit wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost killed his best friend in a joust. But when he fills in for his injured friend at a New York City gig, he ends up meeting the gig’s contact, Professor Stone, at his NYC brownstone where his body falls from the balcony and the place explodes with gun fire.
Boone barely escapes but uncovers a sinister plot to perform a rare Paganini piece that summons the Devil to trap Baba Yaga and destroy modern-day New York City and finds himself on a race through time to capture the cursed melody. Along the way, a crazed immortal, steampunk vampires, and Baba Yaga set the stage for war, and Boone shall have to risk death for redemption. Because all Boone wants is to keep a promise to a friend. The same friend he almost killed last Sunday during a joust.
Can a small-town Missouri musician outplay the supernatural and save NYC’s soul?
The Devil Pulls the Strings is the pulse-pounding first tale in the Archivist series. If you like when tortured heroes, epic battles, time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide, then you’ll love J. W. Zarek’s spectacular story.
This audiobook is narrated by award-winning, professionally trained multimedia performer and audiobook narrator Curt Bonnem. And for music lovers, it includes music by world-renowned musicians Oleg Bezuglov, Natalia Bezuglova, and Vladimir Gapontsev.
J.W. helps catch naughty folk for the Government. He taught English Conversation in Japan, sailed through the Suez Canal twice, hunted pirates in the Persian Gulf, climbed to the top of Mount Fuji, been kicked off Mount Rainier, can analyze anyone’s handwriting, and he’s successfully run in the Walt Disney World Marathon as a woman.
When he worked at the FBI, his thesis on Red Flag Behaviors Found in Relationships, earned him an invitation to present a paper at the First Annual Forensics Congress in China, which led him to write his award-winning book Naughty or Nice – Whose List Are You On? available as a handout during lectures.
He co-authored the bestselling book, The Happiness Code with Ray Brehm, and other authors, who all share their own happiness hacks you can use too. And his latest book, The Devil Pulls the Strings, received the Literary Titan Award, and 5-Star Book Reviews from Book Viral, Chanticleer Reviews, Literary Titan, and Readers on GoodReads.com.
Curt Bonnem, award-winning stage actor and engaging storyteller, brought all the characters to life in The Devil Pulls the Strings audiobook, with his many uber fantastic voices, numerous accents, and dialects.
Rarely have I seen so many talented people brought together by the release of an audiobook, so I am really excited to embark on this adventure. I will return very soon with a full review for The Devil Pulls the Strings but until then, take care, stay safe, and don’t forget, always listen with your heart!
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