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What does a movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money?

In the three years since Jack Palms went clean - no drugs, no drinking, no life - he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he signs on to help a set of Eastern Europeans score enough coke to settle down and set up shop. All Jack has to do is keep them entertained and get them through their purchase.

But when the plan runs into a few problems, and Jack starts getting phone calls from an old friend on the police force, he realizes that this business will take a lot more acting than he first assumed.

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By: Dan
Review of "Jack Wakes Up" at Freshly Ground: http://freshly-ground.blogspot.com/2009/05/podcast-novel-review-jack-wakes-up-by.html "Jack Wakes Up would fall somewhere between Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and 2 Fast 2 Furious, were it to have been a film. There are drug deals, murders, gun fights, car chases, betrayals, and strip bars - everything you expect from a high-octane, fast-paced action story. This was fun to listen to. In the world of action storytelling, JWU was an invigorating tale, a cracking good yarn with plenty of good laughs thrown in." Follow the link to read the rest of the review.

By: Tony Webster
Superb. The first podcast book that I have felt confident enough to tell everyone i know to listen to. I am looking forward to going to and from work, which is where I listen to the book, often find that I'm dawdling to get more of the story in. Good characters and storyline, fast pace that is well controlled, very well written and generally a lot of fun

By: tony
Jack kicks ass, not to put too fine a point on it.

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