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Witness

By: Paramount Pictures
Narrated by: A full cast
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  • Experience the fresh and powerful re-imagining of Paramount’s classic 1985 Oscar-winning film, Witness. From the creative mind behind the Audie Award-nominated thriller, Steal the Stars, writer Mac Rogers crafts an intriguing, revealing, and captivating tale in this compelling new Audible Original. Two vastly different worlds collide when an Amish boy, Samuel Lapp, becomes the sole witness to the murder of an undercover cop while visiting Philadelphia with his mother Rachel. Assigned to the case, narcotics detective John Book vows to protect Samuel and uncover the killer. When the investigation takes a shocking turn, the lives of Rachel, Samuel, and Book are bound together in a fight for survival. The trio flees to a place forgotten by modern society to escape the killer’s crosshairs. However, hiding cannot protect Book and Rachel from a forbidden attraction that threatens to destroy the delicate balance between their worlds. With their hunters closing in, how far will Book and Rachel go to protect what they love?
    ©2023 Paramount Pictures Audio, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation (P)2023 Paramount Pictures Audio, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation
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    Dec 21 2023

    From the creative minds behind Are You Afraid of the Dark (Audible’s Best Listens of 2023), writer Mac Rogers crafts the intriguing, revealing, and captivating tale of the Audible Original, Witness.

    Two vastly different worlds collide when an Amish boy, Samuel Lapp, becomes the sole witness to the murder of an undercover cop while visiting Philadelphia with his mother Rachel. Assigned to the case, narcotics detective John Book vows to protect Samuel and uncover the killer.

    But when the investigation takes a gut-wrenching turn, the lives of Rachel, Samuel, and Book are bound together in a fight for survival. The trio flees to a place forsaken by modern society to escape the killer’s crosshairs. But hiding cannot protect Book and Rachel from a forbidden longing that threatens to destroy the delicate balance between their worlds. With their hunters closing in, how far will Book and Rachel go to protect what they love?

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  • Episode 1: Cracks Are Showing
    Dec 21 2023
    Amish widow Rachel and her 8-year-old son Samuel are waylaid in a Philadelphia train station, where Samuel witnesses a terrible crime: the murder of an undercover cop working for narcotics detective John Book.
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    29 mins
  • Episode 2: You Tell Me
    Dec 21 2023
    Book struggles to convince Rachel to keep Samuel in Philadelphia long enough to identify the men who killed Jordan - but the killers may be closer than Book thinks.
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    26 mins

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