Up Close and Dangerous

A Novel

By: Linda Howard

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Bailey Wingate's scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their father's will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war ensues. A year later, while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine sputters - and then fails.

Cam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot, manages to crash-land the aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness, and struggling to douse her feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her side, Bailey begins to wonder whether this was a mere accident.

Sure enough, upon her return to civilization, Bailey's suspicions mount: Who tampered with their plane? Who's trying to reunite Bailey and her husband in the afterlife?

Trusting her life - and heart - to Cam, Bailey must outwit a killer who will stop at nothing to finish the job.

©2007 Linda Howard (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Interesting Story -- Great Narrator!

Up Close and Dangerous is not a predictable story, but a well written story of survival, romance and mystery.

Although fiction, it's very believable, as a person never knows what they are capable of until circumstances necessitate a need for strength beyond what's normal, as in this story.

Natalie Ross gave a wonderful performance.

Excellent page turner

Loved story - good voices except main male character. Too many times voice nuances didn’t match words said

Love this book

Love love those book. it was great hearing it. Performance was great, they did an excellent job expressing every scenario.

Could not stop listening.

A great story about survival and determination. This was my third Linda Howard audio book and my favorite so far. Excellent narrator and story.

One of my go to books over and over

Loved the characters, loved the story, loved the romance. Survival aspects we're cool and fun to read as were the flying/pilot aspects but if you're looking for action or suspense this isn't the story, other than the crash itself (which was AWESOME!). Having said that I fell in love with the characters and their drama, and with the different perspectives from the characters it's an engaging read, great story and I love the performance which really seems to capture the emotion of each scene, and the narrator captured the essence of the story so well I can't read the book without hearing her voice now.
Anyways, I listen to it over and over again, so much so I'd call it timeless.

I love this book and audible books too!

Loved it from begining to end. I read this book about 5 years ago before I got into audiobooks. But, listening to it, was so much more intense than reading it.

Narration excellent, survival good, love story meh

Firstly, this narration was absolutely excellent. You can really tell she has a talent for this but also puts in work to make each character distinct. she even does a special phone voice and voice for someone talking from another room (and does so with already already established character voices). It adds a really great element to the story.

The survival aspects of this story were great and very believable. I enjoyed that part and the beginning of the love story.

However, midway through, it got corny and lacked that climactic point that the relationship should have had. I get that the plane crash was a climax but the love story needed one too. It just didn't feel believable at all.

Otherwise, it was a pretty decent book.

i already had the book and enjoed it

What made the experience of listening to Up Close and Dangerous the most enjoyable?

i liked it a lot i read and i have been getting more books on audible so i can take more books with me when i got out

Poor Quality Audio

Would you listen to Up Close and Dangerous again? Why?

No. I had a hard time with the muffled audio. The narrator was good, but the sound quality was very poor.

Any additional comments?

I can't really understand how the sound was such an issue and I'm afraid it's a way to encourage people to buy a more expensive issue.

Once again Linda Howard didn’t disappoint

I like this book overall. I thought the story was fantastic ,I liked the characters I thought the NARA raider did a great job reading the book. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody.