Electric Blue Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Paul F. Verhoeven (Author, Narrator), John Verhoeven (Narrator), Penguin Random House Australia Audio (Publisher)

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Paul Verhoeven's ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime: he'd spill his guts on tape. What unfolded in Loose Units was a goldmine of true-crime stories, showcasing John's dramatic experience of policing in Sydney in the 1980s and brilliantly twisted sense of humour. But what happened next in John's career was twice as weird.

Electric Blue spans the final years of John's stint in the New South Wales police force, when he took up an offer to move into the grimy, analytical world of forensics. Paul unpicks his father's most terrible cases. There was the case of a rapist hiding in the walls of shower block, a body that was quite literally cooked, and the bizarre copycat suicides.

But what's it actually like to have a heroic ex-cop as a dad? Paul and John delve into their unique father-son relationship and how they ended up so different to each other. They figure out how to deal with the choices they've made...or wish they'd made. And Paul's mum, Christine, reveals what it was like to be a pioneering female cop in the '80s when misogyny was rife in the force.

Thrilling, fascinating and unexpectedly laugh-out-loud funny, Electric Blue is another high-octane adventure in policing, integrity and learning what family is really all about.

Listening Length

9 hours and 40 minutes
Author

Paul F. Verhoeven
Narrator

Paul F. Verhoeven, see all
Audible release date

18 August 2020
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Random House Australia Audio
ASIN

B08FBG3JLF
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	9 hours and 40 minutes
Author	Paul F. Verhoeven
Narrator	Paul F. Verhoeven, John Verhoeven
Audible.com.au Release Date	18 August 2020
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08FBG3JLF
Best Sellers Rank	16,533 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 236 in True Crime (Audible Books & Originals) 632 in True Crime Accounts 5,262 in Humour & Entertainment (Books)

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10/10

Reviewed in Australia on 4 March 2021

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Loved it! After reading Loose Units I was worried I wouldnt enjoy this as much, but it was just as great!

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Allison Edwards

Pleasantly different.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2020

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Loved the way this book was written.
Felt like I was there, sitting listening as each story was told. Highly recommend both this book and Loose Units for the same reason.

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J. Boyce

Great book

Reviewed in Australia on 29 April 2021

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Amazingly written. Great storyteller

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Adele Cookson

Highly recommended! A rollicking tale

Reviewed in Australia on 13 September 2020

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Loved it! Fantastically written and a great snapshot of time. As much a lovely story about a father son relationship as crime detail.

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Katrina Rae

Fabulous read. Highly recommended

Reviewed in Australia on 15 September 2020

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Shelleyrae

Fascinating if unconventional

Reviewed in Australia on 5 December 2020

Electric Blue by Paul Verhoeven defies simple description. This isn’t a straightforward biography, or true crime book, it’s a conversation between a son and his father, (and occasionally a son and his mother who was also once a police officer), about work and family, trauma and ADHD, and the past and present. Ifound Electric Blue to be a fascinating and entertaining, if unconventional, read.

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