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A Dying Breed
- By: Peter Hanington
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 449
A debut novel in the vein of Greene and le Carré, A Dying Breed is a brilliant and gripping story of the politics of news reporting, intrigue and blood set between the dark halls of Whitehall, the shadowy corridors of the BBC and the perilous streets of Kabul, in the shadowy le Carré-esque world of foreign correspondents reporting from war zones around the world. Carver, an old BBC hack, is warned off a story when a bomb goes off, killing a local official in Kabul, but his instincts tell him something isn't quite right....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene Return
- By Craig on 04-30-16
- A Dying Breed
- By: Peter Hanington
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Best Book I've Listened To So Far in 2017!
Reviewed: 04-19-17
Take journalism, espionage and political thriller -wrap it up with great characters, excellent writing and a perfect narrator and you have an audio book that is one of the stand-outs of 2017!
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Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 6
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,284
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,045
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,042
Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave. Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Love
- By David Shear on 03-10-17
- Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 6
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
The best in the series!
Reviewed: 03-11-17
Sean McDuffy is Adrian McKinty's id- after writing this character in the four previous novels- he now has his fiction down to high art. A great mystery thriller wrapped up in police procedural. Turas de bhfeidhm riamh mar atá feicthe againn le Seán, Crabby & Alex$.
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Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 446
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4 out of 5 stars 348
Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Le Carre's Heir Apparent
- By Susianna on 08-31-13
- Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
A Literate Thriller!
Reviewed: 03-28-16
Bored with Connelly? Move across the pond and enjoy this group of misfits spy's as they try and best MI-5 sinister machinations who put them together into the SLOW HOUSE for their past sins against the organization. Literate & entertaining!
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Caliban's War
- The Expanse, Book 2
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,421
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,466
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,442
James S.A. Corey’s best-selling hit Leviathan Wakes earned Hugo and Locus Award nominations. In Caliban’s War, the second chapter of Corey’s Expanse series, a desperate Earth politician works tirelessly to prevent war from reigniting. Meanwhile, upheaval takes root on Venus and Ganymede. And amidst this tumult, James Holden and his crew on the Rocinante are charged with the impossible task of saving humanity from a terrifying fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No sophmore slump as both plot and writing improve
- By A reader on 09-17-12
- Caliban's War
- The Expanse, Book 2
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Great Space Opera with Perfect Narration.
Reviewed: 09-02-15
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As a Space Opera fan I was pleased to find the Expanse Series and while not in the cannon of Dan Simmons or Vernor Vinge, the characters development, writing and plot are all top notch. I have very much enjoyed the first two installments and found this one to be enjoyable as well. What I appreciate most is that the authors have really put in the effort to come up with what life in space vacuum would be like and also present plausible political and personal suspense to keep me engaged. The only thing I wish was that they had more than alien being for me to imagine upon.I would highly recommend that if you are interested in this series you begin with book 1 and work your way through. There is enough back story in the following books that you will have a harder time making sense of things in this one.
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