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Title: All the Tea

Author: Ken Carodine

Narrator: Walter Koenig, Full Cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-03

Publisher: Timberwolf Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Desert Storm combat-veteran Commander Ben McGuire, a small SEAL team, and an isolated group of scientists struggle with sabotage, typhoon weather, a rapidly approaching and extremely well equipped Chinese fleet, and a radical new reactor that some of the scientists are terrified of shutting down.

Ben McGuire, a battle-proven Naval officer, left active duty to save his marriage. In civilian life he works as a computer consultant. When the story heats up, he is serving out his annual two-week hitch aboard the Seventh Fleet Commander's flagship a few hundred miles away in the Sea of Japan. Thinking it a low priority issue, Navy officials dispatch the Reservist to run a mission to evacuate scientists from a nearby island. Events on the island will not only reunite him with an old love interest but also place him in a position to affect the balance of power between the U.S. and China for years to come.

For Mature Audiences Only: Explicit language and situational violence. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Critic Reviews:

"For the fans of Tom Clancy-type novels, have I got one for you! Techno-pop excitement that operates on many levels." (AudiobookCafe.com)

"Would hold its own against masters of the genre like Robert Ludlum and Clive Cussler." (Today's Librarian)

Members Reviews:

Superb

Only 3 reviews, but I bought this based on the strength of them. They were right. I would recommend this over and over. The use of a cast of speakers also set this apart. This was probably the best I have gotten from Audible, even above The Company and Odd Thomas.

Tom, Albuquerque

Distracting sound effects ruin story

This audio book is interesting. Unfortunately, the presentation is poor. The decision to have several readers act the various parts is helpful however the accompanying sound-effect background noises competes with the narration drowning it out over long parts. Worse, these background noises can be electronic whines (simulating loud engine noises) which would be annoying all by themselves. This would be an excellent read if it were possible to eliminate these noises. With them, I'm afraid the book will not be possible to finish.

Dreadful

"Dramatized" should appear in the title! The main narrator is fine, but the character players are so amateurish as to be laughable. The lame attempts at oriental accents stick out like a sore thumb, as well as the general bad acting. I also find the constant background sound effects to be more of a distraction than an asset.

Pass on this one!

Nice effects

The sound effects really helped and made for an exciting listen.I enjoyed this audio.The voices read well and with enthusiasm.

Noise, Noise, Noise

I could not tell if it was a good listen or not. The sound effects were much to loud and I could not hear the story. I tried several times to restart the book but could never get past all the noise. I would rather just hear the voices and forget the helicopters.

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Title: The Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

The time is 1903. Carruthers, on leave from Britain's Foreign Service, accepts an invitation from his friend, Davies, to sail around the Baltic. But Davies has a secret mission. He has run afoul of a secret German invasion plot and persuades Carruthers to push into unknown waters with him to find out what it is the Germans are hiding before it is too late. The Riddle of the Sands is considered the first modern espionage story. It is the only novel written by Erskine Childers, an Intelligence Officer for the Royal Navy during World War I, a decorated soldier, and a suspected double agent and mastermind of the rebellion against the young Irish Free State.

Members Reviews:

technical difficulty is fatal

I really wanted to hear Patrick Tull read this alleged masterpiece, but the sound was so bad I couldn't follow it. I understand the Burton Jouney to Mecca and Medina is being remixed, and I hope this one can be next. This is one of the greatest readers of the sport -- as those who've heard him read the Patrick O'Brien novels well know.

Poor Audio Quality

As a five year customer of Audible, I have to say this book is of the poorest quality. Find another production of this book. As another reader wrote, this is the only Audible book I have had to give up on due to audio quality.

the gold standard

The best spy novel I've ever read, and one of the best sea stories to boot. The author (executed by a firing squad--what a credential!) didn't set out to write an entertainment, he wanted to alert the British public to what he thought was a terrible threat (I won't give it away). To get the message to the most possible people, Childers had to come up with a story that was un-put-downable, and in so doing he came up with many of the narrative devices that make the modern thriller thrilling. One guy I know keeps four or five copies on his bookshelf at all times to give away.

Cannot be understood

I was so excited to find this title available from Audio, but I found the narrator's heavy British accent and speed of reading totally incomprehensible. I tried listening to it off my ipod, on the computer and on CD. None of them allowed me to get my "ears" adjusted to the reader - so that I could follow the story. I have listened to over 100 books on audio and this is the only one that I have had to give up on due to the narrator. Oh well, I will just read the book.

Sound quality dooms this reading

Please, please remix this to improve the audio quality. Patrick Tull is my favorite narrator and the Riddle of the Sands is a great read. I also started this several times, even slowing the playback on iPod. It did not help.

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Title: The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Hanney is an ordinary man, drawn into mysteries he does not understand, and no one is willing to help him. In these 2 suspense novels written by the father of the modern spy thriller, Hanney must outwit villains in unnerving situations that lay bare the thin veneer separating civilized man from the barbarian. These novels - the first 2 from the series The Four Adventures of Richard Hanney, are presented in unabridged form, detailing every moment of these suspense-filled thrillers.

(P) Books on Tape, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Very poor sound quality

The sound quality of this recording is so bad it is unlistenable. The books are among my childhood favourites (from my grandfather's bookshelves). But I can't listen to this - it has been a total waste of money and I am extremely disappointed. As a new user I did not notice that it only rated a maximum of 2 for sound quality until after purchase, but even that is extremely generous.

The best two Buchan novels!

The early 1900's version of what would become James Bond is well written & delivered in a great fashion as well! While Buchan's short story collection is entertaining, these two longer navels are well thought & historically accurate. A long lost pair of classics!

Not Hitchcock

I think I chose to purchase this audio book because of the Hitchcock film of the same name. I hadn't ever read the actual book and so didn't know what I was getting into. Alas, the whole experience was disappointing because of how dated everything was: story, narration and sound quality. Sigh. I had high hopes.

Thirty Nine Steps

This is a very poor recording. All my previous experience with Audible has been excellent but this recording is shockingly poor. The quality of the sound is poor and it needs re-balancing also the public school narrator appears to be having a Gin and Tonic and a large cigar whilst reading.

OMG dont get this book - its un listenable

Just joined listened too two books so far this was second -OMG its JUST SHOCKING , i have asked for another book (i hope i get one) , its such poor quality , compaired to first book , and the chap doing the story sounds like he has marbles in his mouth - Audible is doing them self no favours with books thats sound like this - Very disapointed - Delete this book from your archives or get the cleaner to re read it - my cat could do a better job !!!

shame because buchan books are briliant - please please please get another version of these books .

However i like the service , the site and the first book was brill so i can only hope there are no more books like this !!

Thanks happy listening all!!

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Title: The Chancellor Manuscript

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Michael Moriarty

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-99

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Inver Brass, a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals, sees a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unscrupulous use of his scandal-ridden personal files from his half-century in office. They decide to discreetly eliminate him. Then bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto a staggering secret that makes his previous books seem like harmless fairy tales...and Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiraling across the country in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Chancellor does not know how close his newest novel comes to the shocking truth...or that it will make him live bait in an explosive game...or that it may be the one damning document to survive a showdown that shatters Washington's intelligence community. Plus, hear a preview of Ludlum's riveting thriller The Bourne Ultimatum.

©1988 Robert Ludlum and Bantam Audio Publishing; (P)1988 Bantam Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Riveting...Seems to justify our worst nightmares of what really goes on in the so-called intelligence community in Washington." (The New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Chancellor Manuscript not enjoyed

I had read this book years ago and enjoyed it. In this version the reader seems to have numb lips, often swallowing his words and the background music is of bad scratchy irritating quality. Compared to other audiobooks, well I am sorry I bought it.

Huge disappointment for Ludlum fans

I discovered Ludlum about 30 years ago when I first read The Chancellor Manuscript, and eagerly devoured everything he wrote from that time until his death, and a few after that. I've been searching for an audio version to experience the thrill of it again, but couldn't find an unabridged version, and had to settle for this recording. It is unbelievably inferior to other audible.com offerings, with an almost constant musical soundtrack in the background that nearly drowns out the narrator, who sounds utterly bored. If he had been reading a phone book, it could not have been less exciting. The abridgement is abominable, having been chopped to the point of making it hard to make the huge jumps in the narrative. This is an old recording and the sound quality is dreadful. How about a new, unabridged version, audible?

The Chancellor Manuscript

This book is of such poor quality I am surprised it is sold. The hiss and sound quality is poor and gives the listener a headache.

The book may be ok but i could not listen for very long!

A shame given it is written by Ludlum

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Title: The Gemini Contenders

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-99

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men of good and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world. Plus, hear a preview of Ludlum's riveting thriller The Bourne Ultimatum.

©1993 Robert Ludlum; (P)1993 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Tremendous suspense." (San Francisco Chronicle Examiner)

"A masterly job...Complex, thought-provoking, and intricately plotted." (The San Diego Union)

"Packed full of excitement." (The Denver Post)

Members Reviews:

A Ludlum fan

This was a great story, but the abridged version skipped so many details that it was disjointed. I'm sure the unabridged version is even better. Hopefully, Audible will make it available in the future.

Ho hum not good Ludlum

This book would probably be better if it were unabridged. I'm a fan of Ludlum and I just couldn't get into this book. Of course even mediocre Ludlum is better than many other international espionage writers. If you haven't already been spoiled by listening/reading other Ludlum then you might really like this. The background music, Greek accents, sound effects, and a few twists and turns could make for an enjoyable listen.

Abridgment Ruins Great Book

What did you like best about The Gemini Contenders? What did you like least?

Anthony Heald is a wonderfully competent narrator.

What was most disappointing about Robert Ludlums story?

This is my all-time favorite Ludlum. I've read it several times, and even so, I've had a hard time following it because of how jumpy it was in the beginning.

Which scene was your favorite?

The denoument.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes.

Excellent

The story was engaging and exciting. I enjoyed everything about the plot and story line. The reader was well understood in all the character voices and voice was clear. I liked the little musical drama here and there, added to the story very well.

KC

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Title: Restless

Author: William Boyd

Narrator: Rosamund Pike

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

It is the summer of 1976 in Oxfordshire, England, and someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. The only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. Sally Gilmartin has buried many secrets along with the name Eva Delectorskaya, including her work manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward U.S. involvement in the Second World War and her dangerous love affair with another spy. Now Ruth is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past. Restless is a tour de force from William Boyd. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is storytelling at its finest.

©2006 William Boyd; (P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a divison of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic Reviews:

"This fascinating story is well told." (Publishers Weekly)

"[An] espionage thriller and domestic drama by one of the very best prose stylists and storytellers in the English language." (Atlantic Monthly)

Members Reviews:

Enthralling story

The story in this book is fascinating, believable, and shows tremendous insight into the emotions and behavior of several people. It is absolutely top rate.

Fantastic WWII Spy Mystery

Fantastic! Tightly written. Excellent reader. I could not stop listening.

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Title: Carte Blanche

Subtitle: A James Bond Novel

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Toby Stephens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-11

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore. There's thinking, in some circles, that we need to play by a different set of rules too....

Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, with its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary.

The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission.

Members Reviews:

A very worthy successor to Ian Flemming

I've read a few of the Flemming originals and none of them were as well researched and richly described as Jeffery Deaver has done in Carte Blanche. South African's will love the setting in Cape Town. I thoroughly enjoyed this book; good pace,not too cliched, good twists...and all the features that make James Bond such a successful character. Toby Stephens is also very good at recreating the scenes and helping your imagination along through his involved reading style. Highly recommended!

Bond Revived.

If you could sum up Carte Blanche in three words, what would they be?

Exciting, suspensful and well written

What was one of the most memorable moments of Carte Blanche?

The ending.

What about Toby Stephenss performance did you like?

His deep voice was well suited to the type of novel and his South African accent was good.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

"Doing whatever it takes"

Any additional comments?

Only thing that would have improved the book is when they do the music interludes between sections is to have played the Bond theme song.

Deaver's lack of knowledge of S.A. sinks the book

Sometimes a book with promise is ruined by a writer's lack of knowledge he is writing about. This is exactly the case with Jeffery Deaver's Carte Blanche. While the story line may be typically action Bond, Deaver's Bheka Jordaan (a Police woman with a Zulu mother and an Afrikaner father, living in the Cape Malay Bo-Kaap) is totally unbelievable. When Bond visits her at her home, she serves him "bobotie" and "mageu" (referred to as Zulu beer), what a combination! To make things worse Jordaan a captain the South African Police Service wears a revolver, while all SAPS members are issued with a baretta or Z88 pistol. She speaks Zulu in a dominantly Afrikaans area. I could understand if it was Xhosa, but Zulu in Cape Town! She works for the Crime Combatting and Investigation Division of the SA Police Service. There is no such Division. She should've worked for Crime Intelligence. Furthermore a Warrant Officer in the Service when addressed is only called "Warrant." A Subaru is hired for Bond, come on! Furthermore Deaver's idea that a English-speaking person from Huguenot descend is an Afrikaner is really weird. Mopanie worms are only found in Limpopo and the Northern Provinces of South Africa, but a restaurant that would be better of selling "Snoek" in Cape Town, sells these.

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Title: Angelmaker

Author: Nick Harkaway

Narrator: Daniel Weyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-12

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world.

All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew "Tommy Gun" Spork, his infamous criminal dad.

Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's... well... old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did.

When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended.

The client is one Edie Banister. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun....

Critic Reviews:

"Angelmaker is one of the most enjoyable books Ive read in ages...a joyful display of reckless, delightful invention, on a par with the rocket-powered novels of Neal Stephenson.... Ideas come zinging in from all corners, and do so with linguistic verve and tremendous humour. ... [I]ts brilliantly entertaining, and the last hundred pages are pure, unhinged delight. What a splendid ride." (Patrick Ness, Guardian)

"It hangs together so brilliantlyIts an ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told and utterly immune to precisFrom its frantic oscillation between plausibility and fantasy emerges an odd, unique composite that deserves its own moniker. ...Angelmaker turns out to be a solid work of modern fantasy fiction, coupling credit-crunch anxiety with an understandable nostalgia for the mythical days of good, wholesome, old-fashioned British crime." (James Purdon, Observer Guardian)

Angelmaker is an intricate and brilliant piece of escapism, tipping its hat to the twisting plots of John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, the goggles-and-gauntlets Victoriana of the steampunk movement and the labyrinthine secret Londons of Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair, while maintaining an originality, humour and verve all its authors own Angelmaker must have been huge fun to write, and it is huge fun to read. (Daily Telegraph, five stars)

Angelmaker is an entertaining tour-de-force that demands to be adored. (Independent on Sunday)

A big, gleefully absurd, huggable bear of a novelHarkaways prose is playful and beguiling, with a keen satiric edge, and that makes all the difference. (Slate)

Sometimes I forget how transfixing it can be to read really great writing A lot of books are fun to read for the plot; a smaller percentage displays this artful mastery of the language. And precious few manage to do both. Angelmaker falls into that last category.

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Title: The Private Sector

Author: Joseph Hone

Narrator: William Neenan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

To find an old friend, a past-his-prime spy steps into a war zone.

When Henry Edwards recruited him to work as an intelligence officer, Peter Marlow was young enough that espionage seemed romantic. They were in Cairo during the Suez Crisis, two young spies haunting dinner parties and back alleys in search of morsels of information that were never as important as they seemed. A decade later, espionage has lost its sheen, and Henry confesses to Peter that hes considering resignation. A few days later, hes gone.

Is Henry dead, or is he planning to defect? Either way, the service wants him buried. Peter is sent to Cairo in search of his old friend. But as war looms over Israel and the Arab states, and President Nassers life comes under threat, Peters task becomes more challenging than he would like. Espionage is a young mans game, and more than ever before, he feels close to the grave.

The Private Sector is the first in the Peter Marlow Mystery series, which also includes The Sixth Directorate and The Valley of the Fox.

Members Reviews:

Familiar ground for Le Carre fans

If your Joseph Hone your take on central intelligence agencies is that they are full of incompetent, treasonous SOBs. Marlow finds himself pulled into the world of the secret field agent; a role he is ill equipped to play.

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Title: Hong Kong

Author: Stephen Coonts

Narrator: Michael Cumpsty

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-06

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:

The Graftons quickly discover, however, that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse.

When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. To save his wife, he must figure out whom he can trust, both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future, and make sure the right side wins.

Critic Reviews:

"Michael Cumpsty reads briskly in a tough, matter-of-fact voice that's a good match for the constant action." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Hard to judge quality of book due to poor narrator

I should have listened to the preview. The narrator was TERRIBLE! I could have narrated the book better myself. It is like he just picked up the book an started reading. His chinese accents were absolutely cartoonish. I really could not tell you if the plot or storyline were good as it was painful to listen to the book.