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Prepare to Die!
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy’s life. Days ago, he found himself at the mercy of his archnemesis, Octagon, and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who gave him two weeks to settle his affairs - and prepare to die. Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing tragedies, the world’s greatest hero is returning to where it all began in search of the boy he once was...and the girl he never forgot.
Exciting, scandalous, and ultimately moving, Prepare to Die! is a unique new look at the last days of a legend.
Editorial reviews
When Reaver is captured by his nemesis Octagon, he is allowed a two-week stay of execution to get his life in order before he is to be killed. He decides to return to his old life - before the chemical spill that turned him into a superhero - as Steve Clarke, and back to the girl he has always loved. Paul Tobin creates a moving meditation on mortality and regret in Prepare to Die!, a powerful demystification of superhero myth. Ray Chase gives an indelible performance, augmenting the broken, yearning, and rueful emotion behind Steve Clarke's final days.
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- Frost
- 01-08-2014
We all know it's gonna be 'Take some time off!'
What did you like most about Prepare to Die!?
I loved the initial set up. All of the other heroes are gone and the book opens with the last of them, Reaver, getting beaten to a pulp and being told he has two weeks to put his life in order before he too is killed.
What does Ray Chase bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
I love the cigar-and-whiskey quality of his voice. He brings a toughness to Reaver that I wouldn't have imagined.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I'm not a fan of romance and don't like how nearly every story seems to have to have a love interest. But this book used that to tell the story of Reaver's past and how difficult being a hero has been, shaking off his history and trying to move forwards.
Any additional comments?
This is the best superhero book I have ever read.
I don't usually like the comic book hero stories, especially how nothing really seems to change (how many times have major characters died and come back?) but this book pulls no punches. It will tell you in wonderful detail about the lives of heroes and villains and how even the world's best keep their own shameful secrets. Love it.
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