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Title: Rebellion
Author: James McGee
Narrator: David Timson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-13
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Rebellion is brewing in Napoleonic Paris, in the new action-packed novel from the author of the best-selling Ratcatcher.
October, 1812: Britain and France are still at war. France is engaged on two battle fronts - Spain and Russia - and her civilians are growing weary of the fight. Rebellion is brewing. Since Napoleon Bonaparte appointed himself as First Consul, there have been several attempts to either kill or overthrow him. All have failed, so far.
Meanwhile in London, Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood has been seconded to the foreign arm of the Secret Service. There, he meets the urbane Henry Brooke, who tells him hes to join a colleague in Paris on a special mission. Brooke's agent has come up with a daring plan and he needs Hawkwood's help to put it into action. If the plan is successful it could lead to a negotiated peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture, and a meeting with the guillotine.
Critic Reviews:
"Irresistiblerambunctious entertainment." (Observer on Ratcatcher)
"Rumbustiousa darkly attractive hero, terrific period atmosphere and action." (The Times on Ratcatcher)
"Atmospheric and well researchedtry it." (Daily Mirror on Ratcatcher)
Members Reviews:
I couldn't wait for the rest of the books in this series to be published in the US
So I bought these from Amazon.uk. Wonderful historical mysteries set during the Napoleonic Wars. Beware, the first book in the series in Hawkwood in the USA, the British edition is called Ratcatcher.
Peter RV
The very best in the series so far, the characters fitted well within the story. I could not put it down once I downloaded the book, have to want for the next in the series next year.
James McGee does it again
Love the way he weaves a story hrough a history lesson. His hero is the 1800's version of Jack Reacher
Not as good as the first Hawkwood book IMHO.
I really liked the first Hawkwood book and thought it wa a very good read. This just isn't up to that standard. Maybe it's because I already know a lot about Hawkwood, but there were parts of the retelling of the facts behind and beneath the Napoleonic era that were a bit long in the tooth. Some of the background was interesting and necessary to the plot of the story, but at times it went into too much depth.
I was listening to this book and couldn't really gloss over chapters (I might have missed something important) so I slogged through it. Just seemed too long. I do like the author though. McGee has done a lot of research and it shows.
Recommend with reservations.
A good read overall, some minor Beefs
The trouble with working a piece of fiction into an otherwise real event is, the general outcome is of course fixed. This fact and this fact alone has resulted in a 3 star rating even though aspects of the tale - the characters, plot and their writing, deserved more.
Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood - a former soldier and a man with special talents, is recruited into a web of espionage, in the hope that Napoleon Bonaparte's empire and the man himself can be brought down.
