Audiobooks by W. Michael Gear

Switching Gears: An Anthology of Western Short Fiction

"Discover the unparalleled talent of New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear in Switching Gears, an extraordinary collection of award-winning and critically acclaimed Western short stories. This anthology, a must-read for fans of Western fiction, features eight masterfully crafted tales that showcase the Gears' exceptional storytelling prowess. Highlighting the collection are Kathleen's 'No Quarter'—which won both the 2023 Spur Award and a Will Rogers Medallion—and Michael's 'Bad Choices', winner of the 2024 Spur Award and a Will Rogers Medallion. With both winning stories in one volume, Switching Gears is a testament to the Gears' mastery of the Western genre. Each story in Switching Gears is introduced by the authors, offering rare insights into their creative process and unique perspectives—sometimes leading to playful contradictions that add a personal touch to the collection. Readers will be thrilled to revisit beloved characters like Travis Hartman and Baptiste de Bourgemont, while also encountering unforgettable new figures such as Bonnie Parker, Bettie and Charlie at the Alamo, and the eerie Thea Salva. Immerse yourself in a world where history and fiction collide. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the Gears' work, Switching Gears is an essential addition to your Western fiction collection."

Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Narrator)

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Implacable Alpha

"New York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels. Called the ‘Ennoia,’ the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she’s snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes? Meanwhile, Bill Stevens has his own agenda, and his goons have already crossed blades with Psi Team. Now they are coming for Alpha, and all the revenge they can get. Because just as things seemed like they could get no worse, Alpha is back. And this time, she's coming for blood."

W. Michael Gear (Author), Alyssa Bresnahan, Brian Wiggins (Narrator)

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Flight of the Hawk: The Plains: A Novel of the American West

"NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR W. MICHAEL GEAR TAKES YOU DEEP INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. John Tylor figures everything is finally coming his way. He's got what he wants: a free shot into the wilderness where no one will ever know his name or his shame. As he and Will Cunningham head west into the northern Plains, Tylor rescues a wounded hawk, which he had dreams foretelling the event. Tylor and Cunningham run smack into a party of Arapaho who is eager to relieve these solitary white guys of everything they've got, including the hawk. Fortunately, guided by visions, Gray Bear and his desperate little band of Shoshoni, arrive in the nick of time to drive off the Arapaho. The wounded hawk is proof of prophecy coming true. A half-drowned Fenway McKeever has pulled himself out of the river, and he's enraged and seeking revenge. The Arapaho, feeling they've been humiliated, are also on Tylor and Gray Bear's backtrail, especially with the enticement of a bundle of guns. The race is on and Tylor and company are desperate to make the return to Shoshoni country and the safety of the mountains. Will the wounded hawk ever be healed, let alone fit enough to finally take wing? Sometimes the simplest of dreams are the hardest to fulfill."

W. Michael Gear (Author), Richard Lee Jones (Narrator)

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Flight Of The Hawk: The River: A Novel of the American West

"INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR W. MICHAEL GEAR TURNS HIS MASTER’S HAND TO THE FRONTIER WEST. 1812 Missouri Fur Trade – An intimate of the Burr conspiracy, the condemned and hounded John Tylor signs on as boatman with Manuel Lisa’s expedition. But the river is now contested as the British, Spanish, and other fur companies prepare to break Lisa’s hold. As the expedition battles its way up the violent river, Fenway McKeever lurks in Tylor’s shadow. Not only is the half-mad McKeever paid to kill Tylor, but he’s convinced himself that by destroying Lisa’s expedition, he can sell his services to the highest bidder. “No one reads a Gear novel without being transformed in beautiful ways.” – Richard S. Wheeler"

W. Michael Gear (Author), Richard Lee Jones (Narrator)

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Fracture Event: An Espionage Disaster Thriller

"Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disaster thriller. The seas flood their banks. Storms devastate entire continents. Fires envelop the world in darkness. The collapse begins… Anthropologist Anika French makes an explosive discovery: due to climate change, our world is threatened with collapse in just a few years, and humanity will perish. Anika’s committee chair published her work under his own name. Now, powerful people will do anything to obtain Anika’s statistical program for their own use. With murder, kidnapping, extortion, and assassination on every side, Dr. Maureen Cole, a team of specialists, and bodyguard Skip Murphy will do everything in their power to keep Anika safe as they struggle with the implications of Anika’s work. For once the “fracture event” occurs, Anika’s model predicts the end of the world – and dark powers are already testing the model with devastating results. Ultimately, it will be up to Skip, Maureen, and Anika as a deadly showdown in the Alps will determine who will profit from the destruction of civilization."

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), Francis G. Kearney (Narrator)

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Dissolution (The Wyoming Chronicles Book 1)

"FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF WESTERN – A CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN. For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber-attack collapses the American banking system and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and his archaeological field school are trapped in their high-altitude camp. With return to the East impossible, Sam, the woman he has come to love, and the rest of the students must rely on hard-bitten Wyoming ranchers for their very survival. Guided only by an illusive Shoshone spirit helper, Sam will discover the meaning of self-sacrifice. Even at the cost of his life. Haunting, provoking, frightening and prescient – in the end, all that stands between civilization and barbarism is one young man’s courage and belief in himself. “Gear is a master when it comes to vividly described settings: you can smell the smoke, hear the wind in the trees, and feel the cold.”"

W. Michael Gear (Author), Francis G. Kearney (Narrator)

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Sun Born: A Novel of North America’s Forgotten Past

"An old enemy has returned to Cahokia with vengeance in his heart. Will the empire's living god choose to save his city? A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands of residents, traders, and travelers. The city of Cahokia sent settlers and priests throughout the continent, from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, carrying word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body of a living man. A new threat has come to the city, emissaries from a civilization that rivals and perhaps even surpasses that of Cahokia. It soon becomes apparent to the gods–possessed Lady Night Shadow Star, human sister of Morning Star, that her people could be conquered by this technologically advanced culture. With the fate of their cosmos as a wager, the people of Cahokia are faced with a battle between the gods. Morning Star is unwilling—or unable—to fight to defend his people. Who then, will save them?"

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), Charlie Thurston (Narrator)

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The Alpha Enigma

"A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the Donovan novels Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as “Prisoner Alpha.” As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures like nothing Ryan has ever seen. Is she some sort of savant, or the most cunning spy he’s ever met? Meanwhile, in Egypt, archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty tomb that shouldn’t exist, filled with Mayan epigraphy, mathematics, and materials that didn’t exist 3,000 years ago. As a result of this discovery, Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France—along with the sarcophagus they have found—are snatched away to a hidden lab to solve the enigma of a man lost in time. As dark forces gather, Alpha makes an impossible escape from Grantham. Ryan quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance, but with a team of unique allies, sets out to prove his innocence. Together, they must find Alpha and save Ryan before it is too late."

W. Michael Gear (Author), Alyssa Bresnahan, Brian Wiggins (Narrator)

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People of the Morning Star: A Novel of North America’s Forgotten Past

"Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star. The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high. Cahokian warriors and traders roamed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. What force on earth would motivate hundreds of thousands of people to pick up, move hundreds of miles, and once plopped down amidst a polyglot of strangers, build an incredible city? A religious miracle: the Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. But not all is fine and stable in glorious Cahokia. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life. Now it is up to Morning Star's aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to keep it quiet until she can uncover the plot and bring the culprits to justice. If she fails, Cahokia will be torn asunder in warfare, rage, and blood as civil war consumes them all."

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), Charlie Thurston (Narrator)

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People of the Wolf (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

"As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An older, more powerful Dreamer teaches the young man how to find the path to the new land, but they both realize that a shadowy menace looms on the horizon, a cosmic battle between good and evil. And the fate of the People lies in the balance. Performed by Nanette Savard; Joseph Thornhill; Karen Novack; Lily Beacon; Thomas Keegan; Kimberly Gilbert; Michael Glenn; David Coyne; Barbara Pinolini; Christopher Scheeren; Yasmin Tuazon; Terence Aselford; Joe Brack; Christopher Graybill; Elizabeth Jernigan; Sherri Edelen; Richard Rohan; Faith Potts; Britt Herring; Ted Stoddard; James Konicek; Colleen Delany; Ken Jackson; Drew Kopas."

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), A Full Cast, Barbara Pinolini, Christopher Scheeren, David Coyne, Joseph Thornhill, Karen Novack, Kimberly Gilbert, Lily Beacon, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Thomas Keegan, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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People of the Wolf (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

"As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An older, more powerful Dreamer teaches the young man how to find the path to the new land, but they both realize that a shadowy menace looms on the horizon, a cosmic battle between good and evil. And the fate of the People lies in the balance. Performed by Nanette Savard; Joseph Thornhill; Karen Novack; Thomas Keegan; Christopher Scheeren; David Coyne; Michael Glenn; Lily Beacon; Yasmin Tuazon; Kimberly Gilbert; Thomas Penny; Christopher Graybill; Terence Aselford; Richard Rohan; Barbara Pinolini; Steven Carpenter; Eric Messner; James Lewis; Margie Tompros; Karen Carbone; Ken Jackson; Elizabeth Jernigan; James Konicek; Colleen Delany; Sherri Simpson; Joe Brack."

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), A Full Cast, Christopher Scheeren, David Coyne, Joseph Thornhill, Karen Novack, Kimberly Gilbert, Lily Beacon, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Thomas Anthony Penny, Thomas Keegan, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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People of the Fire (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

"Seven thousand years ago, major climatic change was ushering in a 3,500 year drought. For a small band of pioneers in what is now Wyoming and the Montana Mountains, it was a time of fire. As they struggled valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior united to lead their people to a magnificent destiny. Performed by Nanette Savard; Kate Foster; Anastasia Wilson; Tim Getman; Kimberly Gilbert; Julie-Ann Elliott; Tony Nam; Andy Clemence; Joe Brack; James Lewis; Casie Platt; Lily Beacon; Michael John Casey; Joseph Thornhill; Eric Messner; Ken Jackson; Tim Carlin; Mort Shelby; Ted Stoddard; Colleen Delany; Margie Tompros; Elisabeth Demery; Christopher Scheeren; Scott McCormick; Ren Kasey."

Kathleen O'neal Gear, W. Michael Gear (Author), A Full Cast, Anastasia Wilson, Andy Clemence, Casie Platt, James Lewis, Joe Brack, Julie-Ann Elliott, Kate Foster, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, Tim Getman, Tony Nam (Narrator)

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