Choker
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Frederick Ramsay. (2009). Choker. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Frederick Ramsay. 2009. Choker. Blackstone Publishing.

Frederick Ramsay, Choker. Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

Frederick Ramsay. Choker. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2009.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/B1A/585/E3/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/B1A/585/E3/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982426484
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781481568708
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982426484
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781481568708
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781433290015

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Frederick Ramsay

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Choker

seriesId

586683

dateAdded

2015-10-19T15:54:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=250411
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Choker Ike Schwartz Mystery Series Book 05

crossRefId

250411

series

Ike Schwartz Mystery

id

B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D

starRating

3.5

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 08:33:31
   • fileName: Choker9781433290060
   • partCount: 7
   • fileSize: 246858944
   • identifiers:
     1. • audience: retailer
        • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982426484
     2. • audience: library
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781481568708
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 6/9/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/250411-Choker.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 08:33:31
   • fileName: Choker9781433290060
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 246490172
   • identifiers:
     1. • audience: retailer
        • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 9781982426484
     2. • audience: library
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781481568708
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 6/9/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/250411-Choker.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Ramsay, Frederick
   • bioText:

     Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore and received a doctorate from the University of Illinois. After a stint in the army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also an ordained Episcopal priest and an accomplished public speaker. In addition to the Ike Schwartz mysteries, the Botswana mysteries, and the Jerusalem mysteries, Ramsay is the author of scientific and general articles, tracts, and theses and coauthor of the Baltimore Declaration. He lives in Surprise, Arizona, with his wife and partner, Susan.

   • name: Frederick Ramsay
2. • role: Other
   • fileAs: Poisoned Pen Press
   • name: Poisoned Pen Press
3. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: James, Lloyd
   • name: Lloyd James

imprint

Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC

publishDate

2009-08-31T00:00:00-04:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Choker

fullDescription

On the night of the Fourth of July, Nick Reynolds, his pilot's rating barely a month old, disappears off the radar over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it a pilot-error accident, but no trace of the plane is ever found in the Bay's murky waters.

Ike Schwartz, former spook and erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, has his vacation interrupted when an old CIA buddy asks him to look into the disappearance. What looks like a simple missing person case soon catapults Ike into an international thriller with intimations of terrorism that might threaten the nation and its leaders.

seriesId

586683

gradeLevels

1. • value: Grade 9
2. • value: Grade 10
3. • value: Grade 11
4. • value: Grade 12

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "A fast-paced thriller that's quite a departure from Ramsay's Picketsville mysteries."
2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content: The fifth in the Ike Schwartz series splits into parallel mysteries, one involving terrorists hoping to cause national chaos, the other involving teenagers and devil worship. Ike, retired "spook," now sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, is on vacation when his old friend and former colleague Charlie Garland asks him to help find the missing friend-of-a-friend. What Ike finds involves a complicated, very-real threat to national security. Meanwhile, Picketsville's back-up law enforcement, Frank Sutherlin, and Episcopal priest Blake Fisher investigate possible Satanic rituals. Lloyd James provides an intelligent narration. Ike has a likable energy, Charlie is appropriately prickly, and Fisher sounds like a man on a mission. Ramsay's engrossing double mystery and James's smart reading are two good reasons to listen. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     April 13, 2009
     Ike Schwartz returns to his CIA roots in Ramsey's awkward cozy-thriller hybrid, the fifth in the series to feature the Picketsville, Va., sheriff (after 2008's Stranger Room
     ). While vacationing on the Delaware shore, Schwartz is asked by former CIA comrade Charlie Garland to look into the mysterious disappearance of his niece's fiancé, Nick Reynolds. Reynolds, a pilot and ex-navy man, left an enigmatic voice mail message before he vanished off the radar over the Chesapeake Bay. Schwartz's investigations indicate that Reynolds may have witnessed activities that threaten national security. A Picketsville subplot involving satanic rituals by high school students and missing Communion vessels distracts rather than contributes to the narrative. Ramsay is best when contrasting the smooth professional spies and military men with lively amateurs like the cranky Bunky Crispins, a fiercely independent waterman who shows that it's possible to be a patriot and a rebel at the same time.

popularity

71

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/b1a585e3-a802-4c3d-bfc9-0ba1cc7d804d/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=K9IDAMShdiw
  • type: text/HTML

id

b1a585e3-a802-4c3d-bfc9-0ba1cc7d804d

starRating

3.5

readingOrder

5

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/B1A/585/E3/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/B1A/585/E3/{B1A585E3-A802-4C3D-BFC9-0BA1CC7D804D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Mystery

publishDateText

08/31/2009

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781433290015

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

On the night of the Fourth of July, Nick Reynolds, his pilot's rating barely a month old, disappears off the radar over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it a pilot-error accident, but no trace of the plane is ever found in the Bay's murky waters.

Ike Schwartz, former spook and erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, has his vacation interrupted when an old CIA buddy asks him to look into the disappearance. What looks like a simple missing person case soon catapults Ike into an international thriller with intimations of terrorism that might threaten the nation and its leaders.

sortTitle

Choker

crossRefId

250411

series

Ike Schwartz Mystery

publisher

Blackstone Publishing

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC022000
   • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General