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Title: Quiller Solitaire

Author: Adam Hall

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Posing as an international arms dealer, he infiltrates Nemesis, a group of deeply religious Euro-terrorist fanatics who follow a psychopathic and extremely intelligent leader. Quiller's final meeting with Nemesis transpires on Pan Am Flight 905, which carries 20,000 pounds of explosives and 40 cylinders of nerve gas - and has disappeared from the radar screens. Quiller alone must stop the plane and its suicidal terrorist crew from reaching their unknown destination.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a smashing entry in an always entertaining series." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Great Listen!

First exposure to this author and loved his writing style. The narrative was fast paced, insightful and kept you engaged. The narrator was absolutely fantastic and helped to make this one of the more memorable of the audiobooks I have listened to.

Good Read

Enjoyed the fast pace. Will look forward to more novels by Adam Hall. Narrator Simon Prebble was perfect.

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Title: Epitaph for a Spy

Author: Eric Ambler

Narrator: Alexander Spencer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Vadassy was just another name on the guest list at the seedy Mediterranean Hotel until he was accused of spying. Then, suddenly, he was on everybody's list.

©1980 Eric Ambler; (P)1982 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

Terrific listen

The story was gripping and the narrator was a splendid choice. I highly recommend this title.

a good listen

Any additional comments?

Plot strangely was not as strong as I would have thought but overall very good.

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Title: Deep Black

Subtitle: Arctic Gold

Author: Stephen Coonts, William H. Keith

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-09

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 135 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines - a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafia, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean's floor.

...into the line of fire.

While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia Francesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea. There she learns the explosive truth about Russia and its Arctic oil - one that could cost Dean and his Deep Black team their lives...and drive the world's superpowers to the brink of war.

Critic Reviews:

"Coonts knows how to write and build suspense....a natural storyteller." (The New York Times Book Review)

"The master of the techno-thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Stinks

New co-author, who obviously didn't read the previous books. No mention of key events and several supporting characters are missing. WAY too much preaching on global warming. Kills off a major character unnecessarily. Obviously the new author wants to establish his own story line, but JEEZ! Coonts should have stuck to DeFelice as coauthor. Don't much care for the new reader, either. I'm less than halfway through and it's debatable whether I'll bother to finish.

Another long awaited Deep Black sequel

I love the Deep Black Series from Stephen Coonts. I miss that this one was not co-written along with Jim DeFelice. It is well written but you can tell the difference. The second issue I have is the constant irritation of the repitition of the the longitude and lattitude almost at the beginning of each sentence. The book would not lose anything without the constant references. It became so annoying at times I almost had to stop listening. There is another very upsetting twist in the plot that was disturbing to a loyal Deep Black fan. I will not be a spoiler here. But loyalists will be upset with the author.

I hope that the next Deep Black book will have Jim DeFelice back. I liked his style. I don't know why there was a change. He was missed in the novel. Still a good story line

Not one of his best books

The plot in this book is good and the characters are ok. Every time the story changes a location which is often, the author put in the time date and GPS location. Sometimes this would occur every couple of minutes. It really distracted from the story.

Very repetitive.

Would you try another book from Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith and/or Phil Gigante?

Yes

Would you be willing to try another book from Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith ? Why or why not?

Yes

Which scene was your favorite?

There was none

Do you think Deep Black needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Yes. I enjoy the series.

Any additional comments?

I got tired of the non stop Latitude and Longitude updates with 12:43 UTC - 6 hours. That got HIGHLY annoying.

Best Coonts yet!

This one is packed with action and gives a nice glimpse into aspects of geopolitics few people are focused on, but should be. Refreshingly, the characters act out of a moral certainty uncommon in the world today (literature included). Enlightens as it entertains. I often wonder how Coonts knows this stuff!

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Title: The Spy Who Came for Christmas

Author: David Morrell

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Just a short distance away, Kagan will find an unexpected pair of allies -- a mother and her young son, who huddle together after a horrible episode of domestic violence leaves them home alone, with no means of transportation. And so, with the exquisitely honed skills of his profession and the help and good faith of a weary woman and a disillusioned boy, Kagan must take on forces that will stop at nothing. In the course of a wild and violent night, the unlikely trio learns lessons of generosity, courage, and selflessness, discovering within themselves the luminous strength of the true Christmas spirit.

Members Reviews:

Poor Bible Knowledge

I usually really enjoy Davids books and this one is a good one. However I was a little turned off by his writing a Chrismas novel and then including a made up "spy's version" of the Christmas story. What he describes and "fact" in the story could be very misleading to new believers. Other than that, the story was a good one and I would like to see the main characters in a follow up book.

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Title: Dark Zone

Subtitle: Deep Black, Book 3

Author: Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice

Narrator: J. Charles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-29-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 111 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Dark Weapon

A nuclear warhead has gone missing. Small in size, it packs up to ten times the kilotons that exploded over Hiroshima. It's now in the wrong hands, ready to detonate a world war of unfathomable proportions.

Dark Zone

In the top-secret headquarters of the National Security Agency, a small cadre of special agents form Deep Black, designed to bring a techno-edge to covert operations and eliminate the cyber-threats to world peace. This is Charlie Dean's world - an NSA ex-Marine sniper now enlisted to stop the unthinkable.

But when his suspicions of a traitor in his shadow become frighteningly true, Dean's race against time could mean the end of the free world.

Critic Reviews:

"[Coonts] is a natural storyteller [with] a rare gift." (USA Today)

"Coonts delivers some of his best gung-ho suspense writing yet." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Narrator ruined it

It was so disappointing to have a good plot, a good series ruined by am amateurish narrator. Other books in this series have been exceptional with other narrators.

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Title: The Last Patriot

Author: Brad Thor

Narrator: Armand Schultz

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 255 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

June, A.D. 632: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat in Mecca, the Prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated.

September 1789: U.S. minister to France Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery - one that could forever impact the world's relationship with Islam.

Present day: When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian café, Navy Seal turned covert Homeland Security Operative Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind.

Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all without firing another shot, dropping another bomb, or launching another covert action. But there are powerful men who are determined that Mohammed's mysterious final revelation continue to remain hidden forever.

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "quite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum", Brad Thor takes listeners across the globe on a heart-pounding chase in which the stakes are higher than ever before.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful book

This is a great book. I will read all Brad Thor books. I just wish it were Unabridged.

Congratulatons...most excellent effort!

A worthwhile and enjoyable marriage of fact and fiction. It's so much fun you won't even know it's good for you.

Relevant to the world we live in today.

Relevant to the world we live in today and taking from today's headlines this is a must read. If one ignores the different viewpoints, and possibilities of outcome, they deserve what they are left with. Well worth the time.

Wow, what a great thriller!

This was a great action packed thriller that didn't slow down for a moment. I had to stay up late and listen to the end once I got half way through the book.

It is especially intriguing given today's political climate in the mid-east.

I am now going to start at the beginning of Thor's novels and work my way back to The Last Patrot.

Hmmm... let me think...

Not as good as the previous 2 books in the series, i.e., not as exciting... and many times too unrealistic.

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Title: The Whole Truth

Author: David Baldacci

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-08

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 109 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

So begins David Baldacci's new book - a thriller unlike any he's written before.

"Matt" is Mathew Pender, of Pender Associates - a shadowy organization that specializes in managing seemingly impossible situations for its clients. Sometimes, those services extend to managing - and creating - armed conflict.

When Matt Pender is asked by his client - the largest defense contractor in the world - to manipulate two nations against each other, a shocking and surprising series of events is set in motion that will possibly bring the world to the brink of World War III.

In this epic thriller with a global backdrop, David Baldacci delivers all the twists and turns, compelling characters, and can't-put-it-down pacing that listeners have come to expect from this master storyteller.

Members Reviews:

Great fast moving story

Terrific story and fast moving. I listen to a lot of audio books and the whole truth has some very gripping moments and a few surprises.

Shaw or Sean, very much the same

Enjoyable story but a little predictable - Boy meets girl... I like most of Baldacci's books, but I ask myself why create a new character, Shaw, who is so much like Sean (a previous character) of "Simple Genius"? And a story that is so obviously designed for ongoing sequels. At least Simple Genius offered a few unforeseen twists and turns which this book (Whole Truth) did not.

Another great story ! A very

real adventure and so believe able in the world we live in today. It is hard to put down once you are hooked.

Great!

this was a great audio book, I found myself sitting in the car after I got home still listening cuz I just couldn't stop listening.

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Title: Dale Brown's Dreamland

Subtitle: Retribution

Author: Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 140 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

With more than two dozen nuclear devices unaccounted for, the global masters of terror have set a catastrophe in motion - a surprise attack more deadly than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.

If the nation is to survive, Lt. Colonel Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian and his crew will have to reach deep into their cutting-edge arsenal. And they'll have to do it short-handed - because two of Dreamland's best and bravest have been lost at sea...

Critic Reviews:

"The best military writer in the country." (Clive Cussler)

Members Reviews:

Christopher Lane out to lunch! (or the bar?)

Christopher Lane should have listened to his previous

Dreamland narrations, because he obviously forgot his "voice characters for this one. Maybe twenty % of them sound the same as "all" the previous books! "Starship" sounds just like "James T. Kirk". I think one character sounded like "Spock" from time to time. I most certainly hope his readings of the remaining books are back up to his usual form.

Typical Dale Brown quality

This was my first audio book. I wondered how I would "process" hearing instead of seeing; I think that, if anything, I get more out out of the audio books; I can't speed-read audio :-) so I get ALL the details. The story totally lived up to the Dale Brown standard. I hated to put it down!

Nice Read... Will go right to next book

This is a Good Read...Listen...I needed background on the Dreamland team and noticed that there is a good progression in the way that the characters have been developed. You will want to get many books in the series because of needing the history of events. The main Character is a little too consumed with everything to the neglect of his personal life...Oh Well.

What gives?

I dont know who narrated this book, but it was not Christopher Lane, like every other Dreamland book so far. It says it was, but the voice is different, and all the characters voices are different too. This guy puts an annoying William Shatner twist on all the voices, and they are so different from all the other books, it is hard to follow who is talking. Good book, just wish we didnt get the bait-n-switch.

Good read

Very good story. Kept my interest throughout. Reader could have been a bit better.

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Title: Secret Asset

Author: Stella Rimington

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-07

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 68 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Liz has always been particularly skilled at "assessing people", and when one of her agents reports suspicious meetings taking place at an Islamic bookshop, she trusts her instinct that a terrorist cell is at work. Her boss, Charles Wetherby, director of counter-terrorism, knows to trust Liz's instincts as well: he immediately puts a surveillance operation into place.

So Liz is surprised when Wetherby suddenly takes her off the case. And she's shocked to hear why: Wetherby has received a tip-off that a mole, a "secret asset", has been planted in one of the branches of British Intelligence. If this is true, the potential damage to the Service is immeasurable. As her colleagues work to avert an impending terrorist strike, Liz is charged with the momentous task of uncovering and exposing the mole before it's too late.

As she did in At Risk, Stella Rimington once again brings all her experience as the first woman director general of MI5 to bear in a heart-stopping thriller that takes us deep into a "wilderness of mirrors" where nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted.

Critic Reviews:

"[An] ingenious plot....Rimington's sense of place is strong." (Library Journal)

"[Secret Asset has] whiplash control of momentum that raises your pulse a heartbeat at a time until the climax." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Timing Not an Asset

I really liked "At Risk," the first book in the series, but was disappointed in this one. The timing was off; the identity of the asset was plain almost from the beginning, and although some interesting ambiguities emerged, it was s slog to the end. Probably very much like real Intel work.

Complex and riveting

I think I liked this book even better than the first book in the series. It has lots of plots and subplots that eventually, of course, intersect. Muslim extremists. Irish terrorists. A possible mole in MI5... so many plots!

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Title: Hot Blood

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Martyn Read

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-07

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Dan "Spider" Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, Shepherd has to decide whether his loyalties lie with his country, his career, or his friend. Shepherd and his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been abandoned by the government. And with the execution deadline only days away, Shepherd knows that the only way to stop his friend being murdered is to put himself on the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world: Baghdad.

Warning: As title is an old recording, some listeners may find it hard to hear. Please check sample before purchasing.

Members Reviews:

Poor Narrator

The narrator's breathing is so loud through his nostrils that it is distracting from the story. Could not finish the book.

A brilliant read. A Fantastic Military Thriller

I could not wait to down load this title!

This is Stephen Leather's fourth book in the Dan "Spider" Shepherd series.

Spider and three other former Sassmen, led by their old boss SAS Major Allan Gannon, must rescue fellow trooper Geordie Mitchell from a basement prison in Baghdad's most anti-Western sector in less than fourteen days or Geordie's head will be seperated from his body, while being video taped for all the world to see.

Working against time and a group of extremist Islamic jihadist,who have already beheaded one prisoner,in the name of Allah, Spider and his team are on a mission almost impossible

Stephen Leather without a doubt, should be thrusting itself into attention in your audio library alongside Andy McNab, Vince Flynn, Frederick Forsyth, Nelson DeMille etal. Authentic...tersely written... salient traits, exciting stuff with plenty of heart palpitating action gingered up by mystery and intrigue.

Audible better get more of Stephen Leather or Spider and his team will be at your door and SOON.

Another great story by Stephen Leather

Plenty of action in this story to get the reader/listener enthralled. Spider Shepherd at his exciting best. Terrorists, snipers, kidnappings and more. Very enjoyable

Sloooooow

I forced myself to finish this book. It isn't that it is a bad book or the narration is horrible - it is just that neither is very good. I have listened to the earlier books in this series and well, I am getting a little tired of the hero being such a lousy father, always making promises and not keeping them, putting his own desires and needs ahead of his motherless son. This isn't a hero. Personal life aside, in most books of this genera the good guys are generally better than anyone could possibly be. They are smarter, stronger, just a big quicker, better planners .... it is fiction ... But in this novel we have the head of the British SAS special unit going off with incomplete plans and bad plans at that. The good guys aren't smarter, faster and brighter they are bumbling along. In the end I didn't connect with the characters and the story moved so slowly that I easily turned it off for days before returning to it to try to finish it (this is not like me I normally get into a book and cant' turn it off). I really did try to give this series a try but this book was the nail in the coffin.