Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: A Day and a Night and a Day

Author: Glen Duncan

Narrator: Robert G. Slade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of Augustus Rose, an unlikely operative in a terrorist network, and his interrogator, Harper, a ruthless ambassador for the darkest forces at work in our times. Beyond the law and without hope of reprieve, Augustus endures an emotional and physical attack that brings his whole life under brutal scrutiny. As Harpers assault intensifies, Augustus raises the only shield he has: memory. His mind turns to the women in his life, but outshining them all is the memory of Selina; a rebellious New York aristocrat. Their taboo love affair, beginning in 1960s Manhattan, sets in motion a lifetime of passion and heartbreak, leading Augustus from Harlem to a bleak Scottish island where death seems his only companion.

Members Reviews:

Excellent

This is one of those books you finish and want to immediately read again. I couldn't get enough of it. It took longer to read through than normal because i found myself stopping every few pages to contemplate a thought that struck me in one way or another.

Half Blind

I'll admit Glen Duncan's my favorite living English author, but this was not his high point.

Nevertheless, at worst, it's our most important essay on the truly inhuman consequences of the use of torture.

And, it's a mercifully quick read.

Innovative approach and fascinating read

In 1959, Dinah Washington recorded a song that told us how different a span of a day can be. Just 24 little hours. In Glen Duncan's novel, this idea expands to 72 hours. For the main character, Augustus Rose - 72 hours can be both not enough, or agonizingly slow - perhaps to the point where you lose all concept of time and driven to the brink of insanity.

Augustus Rose is a complex character, he is a handsome bi-racial man with startling green eyes he inherited from his Italian mother. He doesn't say much, his demeanor is stoic, always guarded and he is difficult to reach. His personality is not necessarily open and comfortable. While this is not a warm and fuzzy for Happy Hour conversations, it IS the type of personality that does well under torture. And that's how we first meet August Rose - hanging in a windowless cell by hand-cuffs, his torturer a fellow American named Harper.

According to the publisher, Duncan's A Day and a Night and a Day is a "modern Grand Inquisition, in which love, loyalty, reason, and truth are on trial, and morality hangs in the balance". No kidding - but Rose is an unlikely spy, he's not a professional at all in this field, in fact, he runs a string of successful restaurants back in New York. So what is he doing being interrogated rather horribly by some guy wearing khakis from The Gap? Well, that answer comes eventually but for now - Rose is on his own and beyond the law as Harper, it appears is a representative of it, and there's really no hope of escape. Rose endures an emotional and physical assault that brings his whole life under scrutiny: his race, religion, politics, and past, the people he has loved, and the few he is still desperate to protect. Alone and certain of death, Augustus raises the only shield he has: memory.

The story is about where a man's mind goes during the course of torture.