In one of our regular lunch meetings Rich…! referred me to an audiobook he'd just started to listen to, The Chopin Manuscript. This is not your run-of-the-mill thriller, but rather a book written by 15 different authors. Jeffery Deaver wrote the first chapter, then handed it off to another author who had to take the narrative platform and add his own input to it. And so the same process applied through to the end of the book. 15 thriller masters, 1 masterful thriller.

Released in September, there are currently 7 chapters out with a few chapter being released every week. Click on the image below to find out more …

Some of my initial thoughts (having only listened to Chapters 1 & 2):

Deaver lays down a fairly intricate plot regarding the exitence of an orginal manuscript by Chopin. Filled with the customary murders and mysterious characters, Deaver includes numeorus flashbacks in time. This is quite daunting in audibook format as one struggles to remember character names (you can't simply page back and remember the name). Chapter 2, written by David Hewson, takes a more focussed approach with fewer character introductions and an exquisitely weaved scene.

Can;t wait to get through the rest of the chapters …