Audiobooks Narrated by Jerry Orbach

Ride the Lightning

No one thought Curtis Colt had been railroaded for the shooting of a liquor store owner, least of all St. Louis private investigator Alo Nudger. It had been an open-and-shut case of cold blooded murder, and the people of Missouri were just waiting for Colt to be strapped into the electric chair-after all, three eyewitnesses couldn't be wrong. But as time runs out on the convicted killer, Nudger receives a call from Candy Ann Adams, Colt's finance, who insists he's innocent, because she knows who really pulled the trigger. Despite his better judgment, Nudger takes the case, finding the trail cold and witnesses colder still. But, just as he prepares to abandon the case and leave Colt to his fate, Nudger comes across new evidence that convinces him that maybe Candy Ann is right, maybe the wrong man has been sentenced to 'ride the lightning'...

John Lutz (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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Before You Leap

St. Louis PI Nudger is called to help stop a man from jumping to his death. The man has asked for Nudger by name, and when Nudger fails to save him, he feels responsible for the death and tries to find out what was behind the suicide. He turns up a fellow detective who leads him on a trail of greed and blackmail.

John Lutz (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

A case of mistaken identity gives St. Louis PI Nudger lumps and bruises. A female doctor about the size of an average linebacker leads him to a crooked alcohol rehabilitation clinic. *Extended track length will prohibit the ability to burn to a standard CD*

John Lutz (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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White Jazz

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.

James Ellroy (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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Timothy's Game

In another age, it was not uncommon for a tailor to offer an extra pair of pants with each suit as an incentive to purchase. Lawrence Sanders has created the literary equivalent of this ploy by combining three novellas concerning the activities of Timothy Cone of Haldering and Company--an organization which provides "financial intelligence" for corporate and individual clients--into a single volume. Cone is a sartorial slob and a gastronomic goat, but nevertheless possesses a keen insight into the ways in which the financial ungodly attempt to defraud their fellows. Thus, he is quick to discover and eliminate yet another insider-trading scheme with a most original modus operandi, unearths a plan to rig the stock of various corporations for fun and profit, and foils the hostile takeover by the Chinese Mafia of a small family corporation. TIMOTHY'S GAME offers an assortment of colorful characters calculated to amuse and mystify, a welter of Yiddish slang to expand the vocabulary, and exotic descriptions of Cone's diet. Nevertheless, just as the tailor's extra pair of trousers skimped on the cloth, this collection by the prolific Sanders is lean on dialogue and descriptive passages. Still, those who are unfamiliar or somewhat vague about exactly how Wall Street works will find this novel and its predecessor, THE TIMOTHY FILES, a useful fictional introduction to the subject.

Lawrence Sanders (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob

The team: A handpicked squad of FBI agents -- led by a war hero determined to get the job done. The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern-day Untouchables, the FBI's C-16 Organized Crime squad, who finally ended the cocky crime lord's reign of terror. Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI records and agents, bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Howard Blum tells the riveting and suspenseful story behind the headlines. Here is the deadly game of cat and mouse that pitted Gotti, his ruthless henchmen and his elusive law-enforcement mole against the Bureau. It is a tale of courage, murder and betrayal. From Mafia backrooms to FBI squad rooms, from the high-tech electronic invasion of Gotti's headquarters to the desperate effort to expose the mole, Gangland is more shocking than fiction -- an instant Mafia classic.

Howard Blum (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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Stolen Blessings

In this New York Times bestseller, Lawrence Sanders rips the lid off the private life--and public scandal--of a Hollywood superstar. A story as wicked and wild as the tabloid headlines...as only Sanders could tell it.

Lawrence Sanders, Sanders (Author), Jerry Orbach (Narrator)

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