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No Way Back audiobook

  • By: Andrew Gross
  • Narrator: Lorelei King
  • Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: April 02, 2013
  • Language: English
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No Way Back Audiobook Summary

No Way Back is a thrilling page-turner from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and The Blue Zone. One woman is framed for a horrific crime, and desperate to prove her innocence.

A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel ends in a shocking murder. Wendy Gould is an average mom–and the only witness. Nanny Lauritzia Velez knows a shocking secret that could prove to be deadly. Both of their lives in danger, this unlikely pair must work together against a network of dangerous men who want nothing more than to see them dead.

A fast-paced, riveting tale with strong, compelling characters, No Way Back is an edge-of-your-seat read with nonstop action and a complex mystery.

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No Way Back Audiobook Narrator

Lorelei King is the narrator of No Way Back audiobook that was written by Andrew Gross

Andrew Gross is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers Everything to Lose, No Way Back, 15 Seconds, Eyes Wide Open, Reckless, Don’t Look Back, The Dark Tide, and The Blue Zone. He is also coauthor of five number one bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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Andrew Gross is the author of No Way Back

No Way Back Full Details

Narrator Lorelei King
Length 8 hours 49 minutes
Author Andrew Gross
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date April 02, 2013
ISBN 9780062249838

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The publisher of the No Way Back is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062249838.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Darlene

June 05, 2013

If you like Patterson, Scotoline,& page turning suspense, you will relish this book. Andrew Cross was one on the writers from Patterson's stable. This novel has the flavor or Patterson's early riveting novels. I was reading a Patterson hardback and this on audio at the same time. The plot of No Way Back outsshined the 12th of Never. The plot grabbed you from the prologue and never let up. A terrific read and I am not easily satisfied. There was only one brief scene that threw me out of the story for a bit> So as not to be a spoiler, I will only say that there was a scene with 3 people 2 guns and a knife and there was way too much dialogue making me wonder why the third did not take charge while the other two were in verbal combat--eventually that happened, but in my mind it took too long to be realistic. Although I remember that I did not like the first book I read by this author, Since reading (or listening to) No Way BAck, I will look into his backlist.

Gary

August 14, 2021

A stand alone thriller from author Andrew Gross. This is not my favourite book by this author but it is entertaining all the same. Good characters, fast paced and well written.Wendy Gould finds herself in an hotel room with a man she barely knows. Following an argument with her husband she meets a man in an hotel bar and completely out of character decides to go to his room. Once in the hotel room she realises her mistake and offers her apologies and starts to get ready to leave. While in the bathroom she hears gun fire and before she leaves there are two dead men, including a U.S. government agent. Wendy is now in fear of her life and falsely accused of murder while the agents partner wants to kill her. She is not only on the run but needs to confront her husband and confess to her part in the evening. A Mexican woman named Lauritzia is also in fear for her life and in time their paths will cross.Fast paced page turning in this action thrilled read.

Teena in Toronto

April 02, 2013

Wendy and her husband, Dave, had a spat last night and are still not speaking. She is meeting up with her friend, Pam, in a bar to have some drinks and to talk about it. Pam is running late and Wendy starts chatting with Curtis, who is also at the bar. Pam texts that she can't make it after all and Wendy ends up in Curtis' hotel room. Before it goes too far, Wendy stops things and goes into the washroom to freshen up. While she's in there, she sees a man come into Curtis' room and shoot him. To save herself, Wendy shoots the guy and ends up on the run when she is blamed for the murders.Lauritzia escaped from Mexico and is working as a nanny for a family she loves and who love her. She is going to school and has dreams of opening her own store one day. But her dreams are shattered with a shooting in the mall and she knows the bullets were meant for her. She wants to run to protect the family but they convince her to stay so they can help her.Wendy and Lauritzia have to work together so they can both get their lives back.This is the first book I've read by this author and I enjoyed it. I liked the writing style and it sucked me in right away. It's action-packed and never slows down. The chapters are short and snappy which I like.While I liked Lauritzia, I didn't care much for Wendy. Yes, I was cheering her on but I couldn't warm up to her for some reason. She had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time that set off the chain of events. Despite not liking one of the main characters, I really enjoyed the book which is a testament to the writing and story. The bad guys are ruthless and cold.The pieces start falling together at the end as to what's going on and I was happy with the ending for the most part. Not to give anything away, I wasn't buying the possible love connection that was hinted at, though. Really? It had only been four months.I look forward to reading other books by this author.Blog review post: http://www.teenaintoronto.com/2013/04...

Marilee

May 02, 2013

This is one of best books I have read. There are a variety of interesting characters, deep twists and turns, beautifully described scenery that will places you right into the area of the event, emotions to pull at your heartstrings and an eye opening look into the issues of the Mexican cartels and the US government.

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April 12, 2013

I first discovered Andrew Gross as he co-writes with James Patterson. Following on from those books I picked up his novels ...written by him alone and featuring Ty Hauk (major character crush going on there!). I have since read all of his books that he has written alone and with the exception of one have enjoyed all of them. His last release ’15 Seconds’ was a “hang on to your seat” kind of book and I was hoping his new one would be just as good. Thankfully Mr Gross has come up trumps once again with this newest release of No Way Back.One thing I would point out (although minor I know) is that some people may mistake this book for his last as the covers are similar at a glance. I know this is minor but can’t help but feel it may make some people skim past it online, thinking they have already read it, which I certainly wouldn’t recommend! Wendy Gould and Laurita Velez are the two main characters in this new book and their worlds will become terrifyingly dangerous as the book starts as a pretty fast paced read from the get go!Wendy Gould was an average mother, however now she’s the sole witness to the murder she’s being framed for. The first few chapters see Wendy in a hotel bar, and the shocking thing is that it could be any woman out there. Her situation is one that many people could have been in that day, only Wendy (thankfully fictional) was the one that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It takes mere three or four chapters for me to realise that this latest Gross book is no less thrilling than the last. Lauritzia Velez is a suburban nanny with a tragic past and a terrifying future. After another attempt on her life, she once again leaves everything she loves behind to go on the run. Both women know too much and have no idea just how much their worlds will clash. Both characters drew my attention from the early days and as both women find their worlds becoming more and more dangerous, I found myself reading quicker. Having started this book yesterday morning, I finished it by the time I had to go to sleep. It was a book that was full of threads that have you questioning who is involved and why.I found myself having to pay close attention in the latter part of the book as there are so many potential characters involved and different threads that are all intertwined. The book held my attention from start to finish and there were plenty of twists turns and surprises that I thoroughly enjoyed each and every page. I almost feel like the more Andrew Gross writes, the better he gets. This is certainly a thriller that has all the right ingredients, and one that will keep you up into the small hours reading. I still await the return of my character crush, with a new book featuring Ty Hauck, but until then am keeping myself occupied with his fantastic stand alone novels. Highly recommended!

Cheryl

March 30, 2013

Wendy is abuot to have a one-night stand. At the last moment she decides that she can not go through with it. She is in tbe hotel bathroom when she hears voices arguing. There is another man in the room and he is holding a gun. The next thing, the man that Wendy was about to have sex with is shot and killed. Wendy acting on impluse shots the other man and then takes off running. Wendy goes into hiding trying to figure out a way to clear her name. Meanwhile in another area, Lauritzia works as a nanny. She and the two children she is caring for are at the mall. A man starts shooting in the mall. Lauritzia reconizes the man and knows he is there for her. She also goes on the run. Wendy and Lauritzia's pathes will intertwine with each other. Mr. Gross has done it again. He won me over with his latest book, No Way Back. It was action-packed and kept me on the edge of my seat. I was flying through this book like it was crack! I was addicted. The two women, Wendy and Lauritzia are courageous, powerful women. While each was fighting for their life, they were both willing to die fighting for justice and the truth. Mr. Gross wrote that this story is loosely based on the story of Edmond Demiraj. Edmond is an Albanian immigrant, who testified aganist a killer. Edmond's life became endangered. He sought asylum and was denied. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court who granted Edmond asylum in the United States. I can not imagine doing the right thing like testifying and then having the killer slaughter my whole family and then having to be on the run for my life watching my back. The reason that I really liked Wendy and Lauritzia besides what I already said before is because they were real women. They were not just like characters in a story but they had emotions, they felt, they cried, they had fear. Thus for these reasons I connected emotionally with the two women, which made this book better. I can not wait to read the next book from Mr. Gross.

Michael

March 09, 2013

This fast paced thriller catches the reader's attention from the start as the action speeds along like a fast moving train. The action details the misfortunes of two women and we see how their paths eventually come together to fight a common adversary.After an argument with her husband, Wendy goes to a hotel room with a man she just met, before anything happens, she is in the bathroom when someone barges into the room and kills the man she was with. Then, as the man is setting a scene for self defense and planting a gun, Wendy comes out of the bathroom, announces that she is an ex-cop and tries to arrest him. When he aims his weapon at her, she grabs the gun that he would have used to stage his scene and kills him. Then she looks at his i.d. and sees that he is a member of the Homeland Security. She panics and when she runs from the room, his partner is down the hall. The chase begins.Lauritzia Valez is a nanny with a secret. While with the children under her care, she's spotted by a man who tries to kill her. She and the children escape and we follow the events that led up from her earlier life in Mexico to now. The heart pounding plot moves from one woman to the other as the story unfolds. Revenge, brave women and appealing characters reveal their story and fight to overcome their situation as the reader is glued to the pages.I read the story until late at night and recommend it.

Kathleen (Kat)

March 14, 2013

Imagine going about your day like every other day. Getting up, getting ready for work and expecting to come home to your husband and end your day just like every other one. Only today's going to be different. All those normal days of the same old boring routine will be something you wish you could get back. You'd never complain again. Today will be the day you wished you never got out of bed. The day where all those what if's questions that play in your mind would simply go away. Today is the day where you will spend every single minute trying to stay one step ahead of people who want you dead and there is No Way Back to the life you had before. In the novel, No Way Back by best selling author Andrew Gross, Wendy Gould, an attractive wife and step mother to David's children from a previous message is sitting in a bar waiting for her friend Pam to show up. It seems that talking things over with your best friend is better than attempting to go home and have yet another argument with your husband. Even if she were to head home, David has late night business meetings in hopes of securing another contract that will add even more money to their already lavish and comfortable lifestyle. The one thing Wendy doesn't count on is that an attractive man in the bar approaches her during one of her most vulnerable times in her marriage. She loves the attention he provides and when her friend Pam calls to tell her she can't meet her, Wendy makes the mistake of leaving the bar with the man knowing the choice she makes tonight will alter her life forever. When she arrives in his apartment, she suddenly comes to grip with her moral conviction and kindly tells Curtis that she needs to go home before things go any further than simply being in his apartment. While she freshens up in his bathroom, she overhears voices in the other room and slowly picks out the door expecting to find Curtis on the phone. What she sees is another man sitting across from Curtis telling him to pick up the gun he has placed before him. When Curtis refuses, the man shots him anyway. Wendy knows that she is likely to be next since the man who shot Curtis has obviously heard the water running in the bathroom and knows she is likely to be shot next. She sees the gun that Curtis refused to pick up lying just within her reach outside the bathroom door and while the other man is distracted she rushes out and picks it up. She informs the man she is an ex-cop and to put his hands up. However, when he draws his weapon on her, she has no other choice but to shoot him. What has just happened? She can't go home? How will she be able to tell David what happened even though nothing happened with Curtis? When she reaches into the pocket of the shooters jacket, she finds an ID that tells her that just has just killed an agent with the Department of Homeland Security which mean that even know she can't even go to the police. What will she do? What would you do? I received No Way Back by Andrew Gross compliments of William Morrow, a division of Harper Collins Publishers for my honest review. This one is action packed on every single page. It is a nail biter and a jaw clincher to be certain and I quite literally inhaled this one in a matter of hours. There are some uses of profanity and vulgarity but overall the story is amazing. For those of you that love a bit of adrenaline to go along with your murder mystery, then this one will be one you'll want to pick up. I would rate this one a 4 out of 5 simply based on my review scale and have enjoyed the previous Andrew Gross novels I have had the opportunity to review in the past, Eyes Wide Open and 15 Seconds.

Gloria ~

March 04, 2013

In this fast moving thriller, Andrew Gross has us at attention right from the get-go. The prologue sets the scene for what happened four years prior and will ultimately affect both of the women who are the focal points of this story. First Wendy, a former cop, who meets a man in a bar, goes up to his room with him, and is tempted into a sexual encounter that she can't fulfill. She is in the bathroom just before leaving, when she hears someone enter, cracks the door and witnesses the man she was with shot execution style. She's been seen, but she gets away, and now she is the hunted one, as she flees for her life. Lauritzia is the nanny of two children belonging to a lawyer and his wife, who treat her as their own family. She is shot at in an elevator by a tattooed man she recognizes. She hovers over the children protecting them, as other bodies fall beside her. Knowing her presence has caused the loss of other lives and might cause harm to her employers and their children, she attempts to flee, also running for her life. How these women's lives collide in this fast-paced mystery will have you turning the pages, way longer than you intended. One minor thing bothered me. When Wendy is concealing her identity by going blonde. She claims even she couldn't recognize herself, but it is not possible for a darker haired woman to become a blonde with a box of store-bought-color. Anyone who has tried it knows this. You need a professional with bleach and foil for those kinds of results. Another thing, Gross also used the sur-name “Bienvienes” for the two DEA agents that were killed in Culiacan. It's phonetically difficult to pronounce, don't know why he picked that. I've never heard of this name, googled it and didn't find a one. Using a more common latin surname, such as Benavidez, Bernal, or some other real name would've seemed more genuine.I thought it was put together quite well, and had no trouble following the plot lines, unlike one reviewer that seemed confused. I've enjoyed Gross's novels, and definitely recommend this one to lovers of thrillers and mysteries.

stan

April 03, 2017

Great story very fast pace. Had me transfixed from page one.Just when you thought you spotted the plot you haddent and you go on to the end.

Nicki

November 07, 2020

I quite enjoyed this. Not the most well written book I ever read, but as a fast paced thriller, it kept me reading and wasn’t overly complicated to follow as some thrillers can be. I found both Wendy and Lauritiza’s stories interesting.

Jacqui

March 09, 2013

As the title intimates, Andrew Gross' latest thriller, "No Way Back" (William Morrow 2013) is about those bells we ring that can't be unrung, those self-inflicted wounds that are so venomous, we feel them for the rest of our lives. The most we can hope for is to move on.This story starts with a simple marital spat, an argument between two people who love each other deeply, but let emotion control them for just a day. Not much time, but in that period, Wendy Gould (the wife) almost sleeps with another man. Almost--she stops herself in time, but can't get out of the hotel room before her potential paramour is murdered and she must kill a Federal agent to save her own life. She flees for home and confides in her husband--the bad and the ugly--but before they can tell her story to the police, he is killed and she must run for her life from a rogue federal agent.To make it worse, Wendy is framed for her husband's murder and that of the agent. She quickly determines her only salvation is to find out why the man she didn't have an affair with was murdered and why it is so important she not tell what she saw.This is a fast-paced race through one failed solution after another, as Wendy attempts to unravel clues and extricate herself before she is found by those chasing her. It is fascinating to see how ordinary people handle life-threatening situations. Though Wendy is an ex-cop, she is now a housewife of two adult children. Fighting armed killers and drug lords (part of the second plot line) is not in her daily domestic duties. Early in the book, I was annoyed by the overlapped plot lines. They jumped around in time without clear notice to the reader, but that resolved itself by the halfway mark and I never thought of it again.For anyone who loves to read problem-solving thrillers, where a jumble of clues must be sorted by a deadline, you will love this book. And, you'll want to go back and pick up his other novels, also. Every one of them is as good as this one.

Jeannie

November 05, 2013

Can you imagine being framed for a horrendous crime you didn't commit? To say the least, I am sure you would feel vulnerable and an overwhelming feeling of dread would go through you. What would you do when trust is broken like a crack in a dam? Would your life start to crumble and wash away? Would you risk everything to prove your innocence? This jaw-dropping novel encompasses Mexican drug cartels, shady, corrupt people and their evil deeds that are spreading to the good ole USA. Truth is: The Mexican drug cartels are spreading to the United States and they are getting harder and harder for the authorities to stop. In No Way Back, I liked how the author depicts two strong, but tenderhearted women who find they have to rely on each other if they are to survive and possibly defeat evil, murderous forces. It is definitely a suspense thriller and a page-turner.Jeannie Walker - Award Winning Author

Kari

April 29, 2013

When I started this book, I was expecting a completely different book than the one I got. I could not put this book down! No Way Back is an excellent, well written mystery that kept me captivated until the end. Part of the story is told by Wendy, while the rest of the story follows the other characters. I actually liked the switch in points of view. I thought it worked very well here. Also, it wasn't clear how all of the parts of the story were going to fit together, but the author did a nice job of weaving them into a story that made sense. If there was ever a story that would make you not want to cheat on your spouse, this one is it. When Wendy makes the mistake of going up to a stranger's room for a one night stand, she ends up smack in the middle of a HUGE conspiracy. That one mistake costs her everything she holds dear. What follows is a race against time to clear her name and to try to figure out what exactly is going on. I liked Wendy. I felt really badly for her and found she was a character I could root for.I don't want to say too much on the plot, because it would ruin the story. There are a few twists that are better left to be revealed as you read. I think this book would make a great movie! Andrew Gross is a new to me author. I look forward to reading more from him!

Tammy

June 10, 2013

This was a fast paced thriller that sucked you in right from the first page. Wendy is at the bar waiting for her friend and has had a fight with her husband. She goes upstairs with the piano player(though that was a little unbelievable) and he is murdered with her as a witness. From there the trouble begins and she is on the run. Government agents who are not good guys are after her and she has to figure out why the guy was murdered so that she can bring these guys down. There is another story line also going on with a gal from Mexico who is being hunted by the cartel and her life on the run is catching up to her also. The two ladies end up together and the ending is quite good. Don't want to give it away but I loved it.

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