The Phantom Patrol by L Ron Hubbard (Audiobook Review)

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Title: The Phantom Patrol

Author: L Ron Hubbard

Narrator: Full cast

Copyright: 2011, Galaxy Audio

Duration: 2 hours

Genres: pulp fiction, nautical

Filed in: Audiobook Reviews

Review copy provided by Galaxy Audio.



PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: On the trail of dope runners on the high seas, Coast Guard CPO Johnny Trescott receives an SOS from a transport plane that's crashed and sinking. With lives at stake, Johnny must cut off his pursuit and rescue the downed plane.

Unfortunately, the dope-smuggling pirate he's chasing hears the same alarm, and greets Johnny and his crew at the crash scene with something far more than they bargained for.

Copyright 2011, Galaxy Audio



AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: While hunting drug smugglers in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard patrol boat CG One Oh Oh Four receives a distress call from a downed transport plane. The call couldn’t have come at a worse time. Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott will have to break off his pursuit of the smugglers once again, and what’s worse a hurricane is beginning to warm up in the area. To make things even more interesting, the distress call reveals that one of the passengers on the airplane is none other than millionaire land developer James Ferguson. Duty calls, and Johnny Trescott answers. Ordering his crew full speed ahead, the patrol boat battles through the waves and wind which are steadily increasing.

Trescott and his gutsy crew arrive on the scene just in the nick of time, rescuing Ferguson and three others from the plane just before it sinks beneath the waves, but their troubles are just beginning. No sooner have the water-logged passengers of the plane been pulled aboard the One Oh Oh four than the smugglers show up. They heard the distress call as well, and the wealthy Ferguson could earn them a fine ransom. The drug runners sail a large ship, a cruiser, and have the little patrol boat out-gunned, and Trescott knows his only hope is to outrun them. That’s when his engineer informs him that the mad dash through stormy seas burned out the engines.

Three months later, hurricane season is over and the One Oh Oh Four, along with its captain and crew have vanished. Well, almost. Vague reports have been trickling in of a mysterious ship roaming the gulf. Some claim to have been waylaid and robbed at sea by a ghostly, white-haired captain, sailing a murky gray ship bearing the numbers One Oh Oh Four across her bow. Some say Johnny trescott’s uneasy spirit scours the sea for loot. Others say he threw in with the smugglers and the ghost act is just a put-on. But sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction, and if only they knew.

L Ron Hubbard really is one of the most versatile authors I have had the pleasure of reading. Air adventures, sea adventures, stories of war, and tales of ancient tombs, Hubbard does it all with equal enthusiasm and finesse.

Galaxy Audio is producing more than 200 of Hubbard’s golden age stories from the 1930’s and 40’s, creating full-cast audio enhanced with music and sound effects. I was particularly impressed with The Phantom Patrol. During the rescue scene, I was treated to howling winds, crashing waves, and booming thunder. The stereo sound effects really put you right in the middle of the action..

The Phantom Patrol features Phil Proctor as the main narrator. The remaining characters are portrayed by the voice talents of Galaxy Audio regulars R F Daley and Jim Meskimen, along with Shane Johnson, Kristin Proctor, Thomas Silcott, and Michael Urchak. Again, the full-cast production brings the story to life, giving it the feel of an old time radio program. I thought that Kristin Proctor was particularly good, sounding very natural in her narration.

The Phantom Patrol makes some good summer reading. It’s a thrilling story and production, and at only 2 hours it’s a good way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon.



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