After the End
An Owen Taylor Story
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- By: James Patterson & Brendan DuBois
- Narrated by: Kyf Brewer
- Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
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It's payback time.
A devastated soldier's wife wants Special Ops veteran Owen Taylor to avenge her broken husband. And she won't have to ask twice.
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