After the Rain audiobook

Making my way through the Chuck Logan library, and enjoying the journey! Phil Broker is quickly becoming one of my favorite fictional characters, putting him just behind the likes of Easy Rawlins and Mitch Rapp.In my last review (Vapor Trail), I said I would talk more about Phil Broker's wife, Nina Pryce. I didn't want to get into it then, for that review, because at the time I had already started reading After the Rain, and my emotions were hot. Capital H. O.T. So in this review I will cover my feelings on that character in far more depth.Nina, active Army, took Kit, (Broker's daughter) and left the country. For two years Broker raised Kit while Nina was active in the military. And then, poof. Nina just takes their daughter and goes. Gone without so much as a good bye. Broker did his best dealing with it in Vapor Trail. But they were still working on their marriage some at that point, taking a break. Didn't excuse her taking their kid. I do not think I have ever hated a character more.And then I started reading After the Rain. Nina is back in town, for the most part. She is on a special, secret op. Working off intel, they believe a a nuclear weapon is in play. The suitcase bomb is either on, or being moved onto U.S. soil. With a small team Nina is going undercover to expose the plot. Part of the props used is Kit. Her seven year old daughter.Yep. Kit. Her seven year old daughter.Broker is fit to be tied. He'd been doing his best at handling the situation, giving Nina the space she needed to get things right. So when Nina puts their daughter into play, he about loses it. Which is good, because as Nina penetrates a small family operation, one possibly behind the nuke, she needs Broker to make the ploy realistic. Broker's role? The angry husband.The local police are not fooled by the sudden appearance of Nina and her team. They stick out like sore thumbs, and working closely with Broker, decide it is best to all play nice and figure out what's going on instead of finger pointing, and puffing chests over infringed territories. Things spiral out of control, and the weapon --the "suitcase" nuke is on the move.There is little time, and little chance for planning as Broker moves to thwart insidious plans. He and his wife, and the other law enforcement and military personnel put their lives on the line. It isn't about them. Not anymore. It is about saving the city, the state, the country from a nuclear attack. Will they be able to uncover the devious plan and expose those behind it before the bomb is detonated?Man. Man. Man. After the Rain was intense. The character development is phenomenal. The villains were villainous, and the heroes heroic! There was nothing about this book I didn't like. Readers get treated to some serious background that is dark, and compelling. Another fantastic installment in the Phil Broker series!Phillip TomassoAuthor of Absolute Zeroand Damn the Dead 

Nina Pryce and her husband, Phil Broker, couldn't have more opposite views of the military. Broker's loyalty to the men he served with in Vietnam is matched only by his certainty that they shouldn't have been there in the first place. Nina, though, is a new breed, a decorated and ambitious vet of the first Gulf War. As Nina proceeds along her chosen career path, Broker -- until his recent "retirement," Minnesota's most effective, unorthodox, and controversial undercover cop -- finds himself struggling in the role of patient military spouse.Incommunicado for months as part of a top-secret Delta anti-terrorist operation, Nina, with daughter Kit in tow, suddenly emerges in Langdon, North Dakota, a town in the heart of the Cold War Minuteman II missile belt. When Broker arrives to take Kit back home, he realizes that the legacy of those warheads still casts a sinister shadow across the desolate north border country, in the person of a damaged psychopath.Broker discovers he's been drawn into an elaborate con within a con, made an unwitting participant in a black-bag anti-terrorist detail. But his anger toward Nina for involving him and putting their daughter at risk quickly fades as a larger, more deadly reality becomes evident. With time running out, husband and wife unite with local North Dakota law enforcement to form a last line of defense against a brilliantly simple act of espionage with potentially catastrophic consequences

To. All the HerosThe book was well written but too technical for an average Joe like me thank goodness for the touch and define in my kindle also I am so surprised thatafter serving in Vietnam you still had the ski!!s left to write books I myself did not serve Kennedy made guys with one child exempt all 5 of my brothersServed and I know if I was called I would have gone thank you for your service You are one tough Dude.

The character Phil Broker gets sucked into an investigation that his wife is running on some terrorists up north when his wife uses their 7 year old daughter as part of her cover. Number 5 in the series, I somehow skipped this one and went to the last one. I am glad I caught this and did a bit of backtracking. Logan has written a great series filled with some really interesting characters and this one is no exception. This wife, part time at that, of Brokers is a real strange one. Sometimes you have to wonder if she had taken to many hits to the head. And after reading this one I would say it is confirmed. If you are interested in the series and where it all started the first one is called The Price Of Blood. If you are already into the series it does help to read these in the correct order, and After The Rain is as good as the rest of them.

This book is the best of the Phil Broker series. By now if you have read the books in order (I made the mistake of not doing that) you know these are complex and interesting characters. This plot is original and believable all while being unbelievable at the same time. Great descriptions of the Upper Midwest / Southern Canadian landscapes. This was actually the first book in the series I read, someone had a reviewers copy and it looked interesting so I read it. I am about to reread it after reading the rest of the books out of order.

#5 in the Phillip Broker series. Finalist 2005 Shamus Award for Best Novel. Broker continues this action packed series after his wife dropped his daughter off in ND at the end of Vapor Trail (2003). Phillip Broker arrives in ND to pick up his daughter, Kit. He finds that his wife and her Delta team members are there to intercept a nuclear shipment by terrorists and wanted to use Phil and Kim as cover. The bad guys don't buy the cover and figure Nina as a cop from the outset. A cat and mouse game ends up in a bloody finale.

Knight-errant Phil Broker and estranged special forces wife Nina Pryce become involved in anti-terrorist activiteis on the northern plains...Maj. Price and her group also involve their child Kit for window dressin in the undercover operation...It all takes off on a page turner with plenty of twists and fascinating characters on both sides...I particularily enjoy the local flavor developed in the characters personally having deep midwestern roots

A thriller envolving a terrorist plot between a homicidal maniac and lone terrorist, with plans to blow up a nuclear reactor. Vietnam Vet and retired undercover police officer Phil Broker must rescue the country and his family, fast paced action, and subtle twists that make you turn the page in anticipation.

This isn't a new novel, but it's a pretty good yarn about terrorism coming over the border from Canada into, of all places, North Dakota, to cause an explosion near a nuclear power plant near the Twin Cities in Minnesota.Good characters you'll care about, and that'll keep the pages turning.Fair warning: It's more than just a little violent.

Another great-not your typical story-story from Chuck Logan. It took a while to develop but, as a result, maybe the character development was that much better. Once things got rolling I couldn't put it down.

Loved this book. Scary plot that makes you think it could happen and what if it did? Love Phil, for all his shortcomings, he's a helluva man. Page turner in it's truest form. Excellent.