Off Kilter: Volume 1

By: Glen Robins

Narrated by: Craig Nelson

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Collin Cook is a man on the run - from many things. This young father is struggling with his career, his increasingly strained marriage, and the pressures of life when he is sent into a tailspin by the sudden, tragic loss of his family. Losing them was a painful shock. Witnessing the accident over the phone was enough to send him over the edge.

In Off Kilter, we follow Collin around the world as he battles with guilt and the pain of his loss while trying to stay one step ahead of his would-be captors. These would-be captors have targeted the unstable Collin and have been dispatched to retrieve the huge settlement he received. At the same time, they have framed him so that law enforcement agencies have joined the hunt, believing that he is involved in major cyber-attacks on several large banks. With the help of his long-time friend, Lukas Mueller, a highly trained security expert, Collin must find a way to stay alive and maintain his freedom while teetering on the brink of emotional collapse.

©2015 Glen Robins (P)2015 Glen Robins

Good Story

While the story is interesting, the progress is plodding. Repetition of history needlessly drags out the plot. Without it, the novel could have been completed in o e volume. I wonder how many volumes will it take to end the escapade? Not interested enough to continue.

Slow start to a great finish

This book gets better with every chapter. Excellent reader gives a great ride. I recommend it.
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Catch him if you can

Colin Cook is on the run from the FBI and Interpol through no fault of his own. Time and again he barely escapes the authorities with the help of a friend in the NSA. His escapes take him to Europe, the Caribbean, and South America.

The premise that an international terrorist is out to kill Colin to get insurance money back is not plausible. The terrorist owns the insurance company that paid Colin a 30 million dollar settlement for the accident that killed his family. Once a large award is paid out, how could the terrorist keep killing recipients without driving customers from his insurance company? How could the terrorist recover the funds from a recipient who has safely deposited the money in a financial institution?

Despite the expert advice of his NSA friend and repeated near misses, Colin continues to ignore his friend’s advice. He also puts others on harm’s way.

I still enjoyed the story this story without bad language or overt sexual situations. Throughout the story, Colin and his family give thanks to the Lord, and call on Him for help.

Soon tired of the repetition of this story!

This book could have been wrapped up in one novel! Soon tired of the repetitious nature of the story, getting the protagonist out of one challenging situation after another. It was like the reader was hit over the head with a hammer with one escape scenario after another going out of its way trying to prove to listeners just how clever Colin was getting out of one jam after another. We get it already Glen Robins! Enough already! This book reminded me of taffy, and how really stretched-out this story was.

I was not a fan of the narrator, Craig Nelson's very flat, monotonous, lack of expressive delivery was painful at times to listen to.

I did enjoy the story and will probably read the next book in the series; However, I hope the author learned and is a little more creative with his sequel. I also hope he changes narrators.

Great story that keeps you listening

From tragedy comes a real story that will keep you cheering for Colin and hoping he will sray ahead of the bad guys. It is very realist. Definitely going to get the next book in the series. I particularly loved his mother--Sarah's faith and support despite her own issues. Very realistic and uplifting storytelling that made me root for the entire family.

Bueller? Bueller?

A slow story line that is basically the hero running away over and over, read by a narrator who could easily be Ben Stein's less excitable brother.

Really good read

This was one of the best book buds I have read plenty of action but still believable is there a volume 2 out?

Boring book

Not able to finish this book. No real plot, book just doesn’t grab me and the narrator is a bit boring as well.

I guess author got bored and decided not to finish

While the plot was simplistic and full of redundancy I assume the author got bored and just decided to end it in the middle without resolving anything. Frankly, by the end of the story nothing had changed. I guess the idea is that now it will be a series and we will be hooked to buy more to follow the lead's adventures. Well, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I won't make that mistake twice.