Twelve Seconds To Live
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Prime members: New to Audible?Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Twelve Seconds To Live
Buy for $21.49
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Steven Crossley
-
By:
-
Douglas Reeman
About this listen
Below a dark and angry sea, men in the submarines of the British Navy prowl. Explosive spherical mines lie silently in wait for their weathered vessels. At any time, the abyssals of the Atlantic can be rocked by the terrifying din of a mine exploding and a boat imploding. Manning these cramped vessels is a fulltime hardship, with myriad risks and sometimes terrifying emergencies. But an even more dangerous vocation can be found on land at the British Navy’s Special Counter-measures - a place where men with either a death wish or nothing left to lose defuse enormous seamines. If any of these subjects stimulate your interest, Douglas Reeman’s Twelve Seconds to Live explores them with zest and tasteful drama in this masterful work of naval fiction.
©2002 Bolitho Maritime Productions Ltd (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
-
In Danger's Hour
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 28
The Mediterranean, 1943... The HMS Rob Roy. A tiny machine, just 230 feet from stem to stern. In peacetime she would have trawled for cod. Now her catch is deadlier by far. Lieutenant-Commander Ian Ransome is a veteran of the treacherous front line of naval combat. Under sealed orders in the battle-tossed waters of the Mediterranean, he and his jack-tired crew face one final test of their courage....
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Tense, realistic naval drama
- By Joe on 07-09-12
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Pride and the Anguish
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
In November 1941, Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of HMS Porcupine. To the shell-shocked Trewin, the gun boat and her five elderly consorts symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting novel about the capture of Singapore
- By John on 09-01-23
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Volunteers
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 20
They were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units. Carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts, they became a navy within a navy - each handpicked for their individual skills, and all of them courageous. Against the mighty backdrop of World War II they performed their small but deadly operations - living often beyond hope, sometimes beyond mercy. This is the dramatic story of a handful of such people. The Volunteers.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Okay But Not Reeman’s best
- By Pedro on 03-18-18
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The White Guns
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death. In Kiel Harbour, 1945, the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott and the men of MGB 801, moored amid a nightmare of devastation, it is an uneasy, unsettled peace. New assignments ashore and afloat mean fresh tensions and conflicting emotions. For some, glory now takes second place to profit.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great end of WW2 novel
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-20
By: Douglas Reeman
-
To Risks Unknown
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. To this unorthodox war came the corvette H. M. S. Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
A Dawn Like Thunder
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 6
The human torpedo, or chariot, is the ultimate weapon in a war, and only men of extreme courage or recklessness volunteer for the special operations missions requiring its use. Reeman has also written 22 novels under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Mostly fighting for love while being a frogman.
- By Craig Walker on 03-23-18
By: Douglas Reeman
-
In Danger's Hour
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 28
The Mediterranean, 1943... The HMS Rob Roy. A tiny machine, just 230 feet from stem to stern. In peacetime she would have trawled for cod. Now her catch is deadlier by far. Lieutenant-Commander Ian Ransome is a veteran of the treacherous front line of naval combat. Under sealed orders in the battle-tossed waters of the Mediterranean, he and his jack-tired crew face one final test of their courage....
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Tense, realistic naval drama
- By Joe on 07-09-12
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Pride and the Anguish
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
In November 1941, Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of HMS Porcupine. To the shell-shocked Trewin, the gun boat and her five elderly consorts symbolise the ignorance and blind optimism he finds in Singapore.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting novel about the capture of Singapore
- By John on 09-01-23
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Volunteers
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 20
They were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units. Carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts, they became a navy within a navy - each handpicked for their individual skills, and all of them courageous. Against the mighty backdrop of World War II they performed their small but deadly operations - living often beyond hope, sometimes beyond mercy. This is the dramatic story of a handful of such people. The Volunteers.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Okay But Not Reeman’s best
- By Pedro on 03-18-18
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The White Guns
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death. In Kiel Harbour, 1945, the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott and the men of MGB 801, moored amid a nightmare of devastation, it is an uneasy, unsettled peace. New assignments ashore and afloat mean fresh tensions and conflicting emotions. For some, glory now takes second place to profit.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great end of WW2 novel
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-20
By: Douglas Reeman
-
To Risks Unknown
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. To this unorthodox war came the corvette H. M. S. Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
A Dawn Like Thunder
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 6
The human torpedo, or chariot, is the ultimate weapon in a war, and only men of extreme courage or recklessness volunteer for the special operations missions requiring its use. Reeman has also written 22 novels under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Mostly fighting for love while being a frogman.
- By Craig Walker on 03-23-18
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Surface with Daring
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
It takes a special sort of courage to serve in midget submarines, and Lieutenant David Seaton, commanding officer of XE16, needs no reminding of the perils involved. The little X-craft with their four-man crews have been used against heavy enemy surface units and important harbour installations. But in 1944, with the Allies poised for an invasion through France, a new and more hazardous role is given to Seaton's flotilla.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The First to Land
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 26
The dramatic sequel to Badge of Glory, China 1900. When the Boxer Rebellion erupts into bloody war. The Royal Marines, true to their motto, are the first to land - and the last to leave. Again, a Blackwood is in command.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Okay, but not as good as most of Reeman’s
- By YodaMaster on 11-03-22
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Rendezvous - South Atlantic
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the SS Benbecula was already old. Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship’s company - raw recruits and old-timers - into a fighting force. And better than anyone, Lindsay knew this could be his last command, his last chance.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
A stressful, frenetic reading!
- By Rob on 08-31-17
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Winged Escort
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
As the Second World War progresses, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Fighter pilot Tim Rowan is posted to an escort carrier to help guard the precious convoys. His adventures take him first to the Arctic and then the Indian Ocean.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Superb WW II fiction
- By David Share on 08-07-10
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Greatest Enemy
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Twenty-five years ago HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. To Lieutenant-Commander Standish, the frigate seems to mark the end of his hopes of a career in the navy. Then a new captain arrives, a man driven by an old-fashioned, almost obsessive patriotism. And under his stubborn leadership, Standish and the crew discover a long-forgotten unity of purpose.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A hard captain comes to a slack ship and makes it right
- By dhb on 05-01-24
By: Douglas Reeman
-
For Valour
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 21
As captain of the crack Tribal Class destroyer HMS Hakka, Commander Graham Martineau must once again call from the ordinary seamen the ultimate in courage, and prepare to defend to the death vital convoys to Russia. No man and no ship is immortal.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Torpedo Run
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
It was in 1943. On the Black Sea, the Russians were fighting a desperate battle to regain control. But the Russians’ one real weakness was on the water: whatever they did, the Germans did it better, and the daring hit-and-run tactics of the E-boats plagued them. At last the British agreed to send them a small flotilla of motor torpedo boats under the command of John Devane. Devane had been in the Navy since the outbreak of war.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Dive in the Sun
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 8
Adriatic, 1940s... Curtis was the pro. He could steer a sub through a saloon and no one would notice. Duncan was the grumbler, more at home in the Aussie Outback than twenty fathoms under the Adriatic. Jervis was the spit-and-polish man, who knew the correct way to die. And George, the Cockney, was the toughest of them all. Four men in the Royal Navy’s smallest sub, preparing the way for history’s largest invasion.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Not Really a Submarine Tale
- By William on 03-21-11
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Path of the Storm
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 11
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in a Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau. For Captain Mark Gunnar - driven by the memory of his torture at the hands of the Viet Cong guerrillas - the new command is a chance to even the score against a ruthless, unrelenting enemy. But Payenhau is very different from his expectations....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Thriller
- By gg on 09-02-16
By: Douglas Reeman
-
The Deep Silence
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China, her captain, David Jermain, knows that this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. And once in Asian waters, he and his submarine find themselves involved in a hidden, undeclared conflict beneath the sea.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Tense
- By gg on 07-16-16
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Send a Gunboat
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 15
HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her unusual life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict. Then the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Exciting adventure, implausible romance
- By YodaMaster on 10-11-22
By: Douglas Reeman
-
A Prayer for the Ship
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-worn bunch of MTBs and MGBs. New on board is Sub-Lieutenant Royce: commissioned for three months, sea experience three months in an Asdic trawler, and aged 20. His commanding officer is Lieutenant Harston, aged 23.
His predecessor has been killed in action 48 hours earlier and is now hardly remembered. The crew are all young - some very young - but all old before their time....
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Torpedo boats plus romance
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 12-14-18
By: Douglas Reeman
Related to this topic
-
Go In and Sink
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after 14 months' continuous service, but for most there can be no thought of leave. If the enemy collapse in North Africa is to be exploited, every experienced man will be needed. Marshall must return to the Mediterranean, but this time to a very different kind of war.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
To Risks Unknown
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. To this unorthodox war came the corvette H. M. S. Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Dead Man's Land
- By: Robert Ryan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 64
Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- By L. Gutman on 03-01-18
By: Robert Ryan
-
Hornet Flight
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,130
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,128
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Outstanding Spy Novel
- By C. McCoy on 03-13-05
By: Ken Follett
-
Forever and a Day
- A James Bond Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Matthew Goode
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,067
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 972
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 961
A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking listeners into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another fantastic Bond novel
- By stuartjash on 11-08-18
By: Anthony Horowitz
-
The Winds of War
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 45 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,697
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,708
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,693
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Masterpiece
- By Robert on 05-24-13
By: Herman Wouk
-
Go In and Sink
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after 14 months' continuous service, but for most there can be no thought of leave. If the enemy collapse in North Africa is to be exploited, every experienced man will be needed. Marshall must return to the Mediterranean, but this time to a very different kind of war.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
To Risks Unknown
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. To this unorthodox war came the corvette H. M. S. Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin.
By: Douglas Reeman
-
Dead Man's Land
- By: Robert Ryan
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 64
Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in the thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick, Dr. John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Watson is wonderful, amid very grim surroundings
- By L. Gutman on 03-01-18
By: Robert Ryan
-
Hornet Flight
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,130
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,128
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
An Outstanding Spy Novel
- By C. McCoy on 03-13-05
By: Ken Follett
-
Forever and a Day
- A James Bond Novel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Matthew Goode
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,067
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 972
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 961
A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking listeners into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another fantastic Bond novel
- By stuartjash on 11-08-18
By: Anthony Horowitz
-
The Winds of War
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 45 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,697
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,708
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,693
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Masterpiece
- By Robert on 05-24-13
By: Herman Wouk
-
The Med
- Dan Lenson Series, Book 1
- By: David Poyer
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61 - carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines - steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold - alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Vulgar and boring
- By Caspar Blattmann on 01-24-20
By: David Poyer
-
Midshipman Bolitho
- By: Alexander Kent
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 311
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 263
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
This is *not* the book advertised.
- By Robert Bolin on 08-26-16
By: Alexander Kent
-
HMS Ulysses
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 187
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk - a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Amazing but heartbreaking and sad.
- By Brian67 on 04-15-17
By: Alistair MacLean
-
The Caine Mutiny
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,116
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,712
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,704
Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Even Better than the Movie
- By James on 06-20-12
By: Herman Wouk
-
Triple
- A Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 590
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 526
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 521
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Triple poorly performed
- By Jpop on 03-13-21
By: Ken Follett
-
When Eight Bells Toll
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all-time classic. Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive. The place is the focal point of many mysterious disappearances. Even the unimaginative Highland Police Sergeant seems to be acting a part. But why?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
My Favorite Thriller Writer
- By Carl on 09-27-17
By: Alistair MacLean
-
To the Stars
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Robert Caso, Jim Meskimen, R.F. Daley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 85
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a craft bound for the stars...on a journey at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
To the Stars
- By John on 12-01-04
By: L. Ron Hubbard
-
Hawke: Three Black Ops
- Alex Hawke Series
- By: Ted Bell
- Narrated by: John Shea
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 227
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 206
This set includes Crash Dive, What Comes Around, and White Death, three Alex Hawke novellas never available before on audio. In Crash Dive, Alex Hawke is on a highly covert mission to enter another nation’s airspace undetected and find a way to avert a global war. In What Comes Around, two CIA officers are found dead. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one man: Spider Payne, a rogue intelligence officer. In White Death, M16 suspects a bizarre conspiracy when two bankers are found dead, and vast sums are plundered from the Queen of England’s accounts.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Scam
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-18
By: Ted Bell
-
The Romanov Conspiracy
- A Thriller
- By: Glenn Meade
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 77
Dr. Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to solve one of the twentieth century’s greatest enigmas. Dr. Pavlov is a member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed by their captors in July 1918. When Pavlov discovers two bodies perfectly preserved in permafrost in a disused mine shaft, they offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs and, in particular, their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been shrouded in doubt.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Ho- Hum
- By monet on 10-03-12
By: Glenn Meade
-
The Unlikely Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,284
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,674
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,672
“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Unlikely Spy
- By Margaret on 12-14-09
By: Daniel Silva
-
Now and in the Hour of Our Death
- By: Patrick Taylor
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 41
Patrick Taylor’s first novel of the Irish Troubles, Pray for Us Sinners, introduced us to Provisional IRA bombmaker Davy MacCutcheon and the love of his life, Fiona Kavanagh. Davy planned to leave the Provos after one final mission. But the deadly mission backfired, and Davy ended up in prison. Six years later, in Now and in the Hour of Our Death, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in Vancouver, Canada. But news of a breakout at the Maze prison brings back memories she thought she’d left behind.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Perfect End of a Great Epic
- By J. Lindsey on 03-01-15
By: Patrick Taylor
-
Pacific Glory
- World War II Navy, Book 1
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 970
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 870
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 867
Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
Glory, now Tommy’s widow, is a tough Navy nurse still grieving her loss while trying to save lives at the Pearl Harbor naval hospital.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Best of PT Deutermann
- By MM on 11-27-11
By: P. T. Deutermann
What listeners say about Twelve Seconds To Live
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Myk
- 06-22-12
Too many story threads
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Reeman's stories always have a genuine feel to them, but there's just too many different stories combined in this book. In the end, I spent too much time working out which characters were taking centre stage at the moment.
Would you recommend Twelve Seconds To Live to your friends? Why or why not?
Certainly not as a first foray into Reeman's work. He's written much better stuff.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall1 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story1 out of 5 stars
- 70tas
- 05-29-23
Cannot have been written by Reeman
The worst. This is not Reeman’s style. Plot is muddled and confusing. Reader is the worst, reading in a monologue, and using the same voice inflections for the younger the older, male and female.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!