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Title: London Boulevard

Author: Ken Bruen

Narrator: David John

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-11

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans. Attempting to stay out of Gants way, Mitchell finds work as a handyman at the mansion of a faded movie actress. When she eagerly plies him with cash, cars and sex, Mitch starts to wonder if even this job comes with a catch. But it isn't long before Mitchell's violent past catches up with him. When people close to him start getting hurt, Mitchell is forced to act, and take brutal on revenge on those who've stolen his life...

Members Reviews:

Gangster lite

A very lite listen. I use audio books for my walk to work. This title is good if you just wish to have a story in the back ground. It did not set the world alight, but was OK.

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Title: The Endings Man

Author: Frederic Lindsay

Narrator: Joe Dunlop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-11

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Why is it, Barclay Curle grumbles to his agent Jonah, that all the regional Edinburgh detectives have monosyllabic first names like Jack and Bob? Then Curle publishes his newest book about an Edinburgh detective called Doug inciting a letter from an anonymous admirer accusing him of stealing the murders shes committed. Fact and fiction become increasingly inseparable when a dead woman is found, murdered by the method favoured by the serial killer in Curles novel.

For Detective Inspector Meldrum first name Jim Curle seems the most obvious suspect. Faced with a second murder and a darkening cloud of suspicion, Curle decides to take action. After all, who has more experience of solving murder mysteries than a crime novelist?

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Titolo: La casa a vapore [The Steam House]

Autore: Jules Verne

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 08-17-11

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Riepilogo Editore:

Questo libro appartiene a quel genere di romanzi di Verne che, più che libri di fantascienza,sono taccuini di viaggio. Una trama avventurosa (si parla di caccia alla tigre, di una vendetta all'ultimo sangue fra un indiano e un inglese) fa da trait d'union al vero protagonista del libro, che è il viaggio nellIndia del nord, partendo da Calcutta ed arrivando alle pendici dell'Himalaya. Il tutto a bordo di una fantastica casa a vapore a forma di elefante! La storia della sanguinosa insurrezione dei Cipay è il presupposto da cui si sviluppa la trama, e, fra precisi riferimenti storici, culturali, zoologici e botanici, il libro ci porta in viaggio con sé, nell'India della fine 800. Musiche popolari del Rajastan.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

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Title: A Thousand Suns

Author: Alex Scarrow

Narrator: Robert G. Slade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-11

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Off the coast of New England, a trawler tangles its nets on wreckage from 60 years ago a B17 flying fortress, perfectly preserved and containing the final and most terrifying secret of WWII. When freelance photographer Chris Roland enters the sunken plane, he finds something that changes all he knows about the end of the war and how desperately close it came to being the end of everything. Half a century earlier, Hitler gambled it all on a last throw of the dice. Now it seems that Chris is one of the very few to know about it and this knowledge might just end up killing him.

Members Reviews:

Great thriller with many twists

great book great story exactly what you need on the long commute and great for a plane journey.

Couldn't wait for the next chapter..

Where does A Thousand Suns rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

This is a great listen but not the absolute best I have ever listened to - about 6/10 in terms of other listens

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Thousand Suns?

The story has twists and turns going from present day back to 1945 and before. It is complex and has interwoven stories but I didn't find it difficult to follow. There was no one best moment - I just found it all gripping. Perhaps the most memorable was the ending which I found very sad.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narration was well-paced and with good characterisation. My only concern was the (all too often) inability to 'do' the cockney accent which sounded like a cross between Dick van Dyke (in Mary Poppins) and an Australian.

Any additional comments?

I will certainly look out for other books by this author - but perhaps give the narrator a wider berth.

Plausible alternate history, slow detective plot

There are two stories at work, one in the closing days of the Second World War and one in the modern era. The modern story is of a not-entirely-sympathetic protagonist unlocking the secret of the past whilst contending with a rather feeble opponent. The 1945 story is the better yarn and has by far the more interesting characters, but is weakened a little as the setup to the present-day story has already revealed the outcome of the first.

There's plenty to keep you listening, though - the diving scenes are realistic, the WWII flying details well researched, and the narrator is a pleasant companion on the journey.

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Title: The Gowrie Conspiracy

Author: Alanna Knight

Narrator: James Bryce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-11

Publisher: Soundings

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

July 1660, Falkland Palace, Fife. After rescuing King James the Sixth from a runaway horse, Tam Elidor finds himself in favour. But as the King's new object of affection, Tam has become the target for jealous courtiers - and their attentions are seriously hampering his investigation into the murder of Margaret Agnew. Why was the Queen's midwife killed - was it a case of mistaken identity, is it related to secrets from James's past and could Tam's good friend Tansy be at risk? Dangerous forces are at work, forces that will lead the King to Gowrie House and to a mystery that remains unsolved

Members Reviews:

One Star

I love all of Alanna Knights books.

i wouldn't have reviewed this

if the other review hadn't been so glowing.

i ordered this book after reading the first page--i thought any writer who could make me laugh within the first three paragraphs would be worth reading. i was wrong.

some readers may enjoy her style--that's a matter of taste. i found it annoying--choppy, repetitive (although a good editor could have helped there), and very slow to develop. the dialogue is stiff (and i don't mean the dialect--i'm scottish, i've been to scotland, i understand the dialect), the descriptions graceless, and the character development minimal.

if you can get past her style, her explanation of the events is interesting. but it took a lot of effort for me to get past the first quarter of the book.

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Title: Red Fox

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

When British businessman Geoffrey Harrison is kidnapped on the same day that Franca Tantardini, Italys most ruthless terrorist, is captured, there seems no reason why their destinies should become linked, until Francas teenage lover intervenes, kidnapping Harrison from his kidnappers, and straightforward extortion becomes political terrorism. Beautiful, seductive and extremely dangerous, Franca Tantardini is one of Italy's most ruthless political extremists. When she is captured in a shoot-out, her fanatical young lover, Giancarlo Battestini, vows to set her free and, with quiet watchfulness, waits for the moment to strike.

In Rome, a British businessman, Geoffrey Harrison, has been taken hostage by a ruthless organised crime syndicate - kidnap is, after all, a growth industry. The British Government are adamant that they will not pay the two-million-dollar ransom and discharge responsibility to the Italian police. As political wrangling takes hold, Battestini sees a weakness and realises that the only way to secure the release of his beloved Franca is to capture Harrison and bargain his life for hers. The authorities are confronted with a terrible choice. Should they release a woman who has masterminded the murder of so many or let an innocent man die?

Members Reviews:

The geopolitics of Italian terrorism (4.5 stars)

A young man named Giancarlo fancies himself an Italian revolutionary, but his real interest lies in the leader of his group, a terrorist named Franca who uses him as her boytoy. When Franca is captured by the police, Giancarlo hatches a desperate scheme to free her.

Giancarlo's scheme eventually intersects with the novel's second storyline. An American named Geoffrey Harrison has been kidnapped in Italy by criminals who plan to collect a ransom from his corporate employer. The corporation sends Archie Carpenter to Italy to handle the transaction. Harrison eventually ends up as the hostage of Giancarlo, who wants to exchange Harrison's life for Franca's.

Gerald Seymour builds tension as Giancarlo travels with Harrison while Giancarlo awaits a response to his demand. The situation allows Seymour to illustrate the politics that underlie a government's response to terrorism. Italy, not wanting to be embarrassed by the murder of a British subject, would be happy to surrender Franca if the British will just ask it to do so. The British government, fearful of the embarrassment that would follow a request for Franca's release, insists on leaving the matter in Italy's hands. Both governments would prefer to save Harrison's life but neither is willing to say so. The posturing is enormously frustrating to the pragmatic Carpenter.

Tension also resides in the turf war fought between two Italian law enforcement officers who work on Harrison's kidnapping -- one who operates an underfunded and powerless agency that addresses political terrorism and one who goes about the mundane business of dealing with (but rarely solving) crime. Some of the strongest scenes address the differences between law enforcement officers who place a high value on saving innocent lives and those who place a higher value on capturing or punishing the guilty.

As always, Seymour's characters are full and complex. Even minor characters are described with the small details of life that make them real.

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Title: The Fighting Man

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. Thrown out of the SAS for insubordination, Gord Brown now lives in disillusioned exile on a failing salmon farm in the Scottish highlands. Yet to the three Guatemalan Indians who track him down, he represents the last hope of freedom. They have come to recruit a fighting man to lead an uprising against the brutal military dictatorship which is killing their people. Gord flies with them to Cuba, then on with a small band of men to a rough landing strip in the rainforest of Guatemala. As the ragged army marches through the jungle and across the high mountains towards Guatemala City, a hopeless dream becomes a burning reality. But the forces pitted against them are formidable.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Simply great.

Classic Seymour

Classic Seymour but with a twist in the tail.

Although an early one of his books this keeps to his style of the underdog or disaffected being the main protagonist.

I can normally associate his books with a recently reported event but disruption in Guatemala is something I could not recall.

Another excellent Gerald Seymour story

Well written characters,people who aren't overly brave or physically imposing and have basic human flaws. Great story without the usual heroic ending that some authors apply. I must admit that I usually enjoy Gerald Seymour's writing

One Star

Dissapointed.

The Fighting Man

Not fiction,not fact,not poetry,not good reading.The author tries,but,fails,to give his hero and the other characters mythical

attributes.Not a good read

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Title: The Heart of Danger

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A thrilling classic from a master of the genre. In a wrecked Croat village, a mass grave is uncovered and the mutilated body of a young Englishwoman, Dorrie Mowat, is exhumed. Her mother, who loathed Dorrie in life, becomes obsessed by the need to find out about her death. But with civil war tearing apart the former Yugoslavia, none of the authorities there or in Britain are interested in a minor war crime. So she turns to Bill Penn, private investigator, MI5 reject. For him this looks like a quick trip to safe Zagreb, the writing of a useless report and a good fee at the end of it. But once there he finds himself drawn inexorably towards the killing ground behind the lines, to find the truth of the young womans death and, perhaps, the truth of himself.

Penns search for evidence that could, one day, convict a war criminal in a court of law becomes an epic journey into a merciless war where the odds are stacked high against him.

Members Reviews:

For Dorrie

Dorrie Mowat was an English teenager of exceptional incorrigibility, who caused her mother and stepfather innumerable instances of hurt, anger, and social embarrassment before she left home to travel the Third World. Even her mother, Mary, detested her as "Horrid Dorrie". At the beginning of THE HEART OF DANGER, an international graves registration team in disintegrated Yugoslavia unearths a mass grave of Croation villagers, inhabitants of Rosenovici, apparently murdered by their Serbian neighbors from the village of Salika. Dorrie is among the bodies, her face bludgeoned, throat cut, and head bullet pierced. After Mary brings her daughter home in a coffin - outraged at the official indifference of Her Majesty's government, grief-stricken and guilt-ridden - she hires Bill Penn to go to the Balkans, find out why Dorrie was murdered, discover who was responsible, and write a report. Once in Zagreb, Penn discovers that there may be one surviving eyewitness to the crime, an old woman living in the ruins of Rosenovici now behind the cease fire line in Serbian controlled territory. Penn crosses into THE HEART OF DANGER to find the answers.

Gerald Seymour is the best writer of believable covert action fiction that I've found on today's bookshelves. Even better than the master, John Le Carré, because Seymour's plots move at a somewhat faster pace without sacrificing character development. And this author's heroes aren't indestructible and flawlessly noble like so many protagonists of the genre (especially, it seems, if they're Americans). For example, Penn is a plodding, regular bloke still smarting from being sacked by MI5 after years of faithful service in the trenches because he lacks the higher education necessary for further advancement. So, now he does grotty surveillance jobs for a second rate detective agency, and returns home at night to a sinking marriage. His is a mid-life crisis well underway. As he gradually pieces together Dorrie's last hours, he discovers another side of the girl that compels him to seek justice in her memory. For the first time in a long time, Penn has the opportunity to regain his dignity and a sense of self-worth. Powerful incentive, that.

The villain of the piece on the other side of the line is Milan Stankovic, a loving father and husband, once a simple clerk, now popularly acclaimed to be chief of the local militia in Salika.

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Title: Killing Ground

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Charlotte Parsons, a teacher from Devon, is sent to Sicily by the American Drug Enforcement Agency to infiltrate La Cosa Nostra and expose the heroin trade in this brilliantly crafted thriller.

READ BY THE ACTOR BRIAN COX. Charlotte Parsons, a teacher from Devon, is sent to Sicily by the American Drug Enforcement Agency to infiltrate La Cosa Nostra and expose the heroin trade in this brilliantly crafted thriller.

Members Reviews:

Maybe a bit biased but it does a fair job of portraying the "Troubles" with the IRA, 1970s, N. Ireland in Ulster County

Extremely good read dealing with the "Troubles" between the IRA and the British during circa the late 1960s and early 1970s in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The plot centers around the assassination of a British MP by the IRA in London and the response of the British Government in tracking down the assassin via a covert operation that sends a British SAS officer into the Belfast Republican ghettos to deal with the situation.

Yorkshire Productions, UK, did a mini-series based upon this book and while the series was fairly well done and faithful to the book, the book gives a better, over all feel and picture of the events and the underlying currents, emotions and political atmosphere of the time and the events that were occurring between the IRA and the British Military in maintaining order in British occupied Ireland.

Harry's Game

British Minister Henry Danby is assassinated by IRA gunman Billy Downs on the steps of his home and an international manhunt is set in motion. Factions of the British Ministry under direct order from the Prime Minister send a lone operative, Harry Brown into the heart of the IRA to find and terminate the killer.

It's been years since I've read this fast paced and riveting thriller set in the time of "The Troubles". It's stood the test of time.

The two main characters are fascinating. Billy Downs who is filled with conviction until the near fatal shooting of an enemy's child tips him over the edge, to Harry Brown a cold, hard and determined man.

It's the women of the story who stood out though, Billy's young wife, downtrodden, exhausted and anxious, she knows what the outcome will be for her husband. Harry's wife, who has no idea where her husband is or what he's involved with. It's the burden that these women face that was so well portrayed in this book.

It's a "cracker" of a story, thrilling, edgy, fast flowing but also poignant and bittersweet. There are no winners.

A Masterpiece!

Gerald Seymour continues to amaze me with his characterizations and the painstaking manner in which he builds them into actors within a complex fabric of plots that unravel, layer by layer with all the nuances and genuineness of real life situations into gripping, and heart-stopping drama. I think this novel on the Mafioso in Sicily is his best and a masterpiece as it walks the reader through a world where terror resides in the heart of society and those brave enough to publicly voice opposition to this insidious secret society do so at mortal risk.

An old conflict brought to life.

Although most aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict are an old story now, well over 30 if not 40 years old, it kept me reading with several twists within the story that made me at times not want to read on because of the suspense.

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Title: Field of Blood

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

A modern classic from one of the great thriller writers of our era. McAnally had sworn his oath to the IRA. But he quit and went south into the Republic, until they came for him, made him fire the deadly rocket launcher one last time. Then he played his final card and most terrifying role - Supergrass. Ferris, the young British lieutenant, hadnt wanted to join the Army. But a cruel twist of fate put him in the front line of a brutally tense war of nerves. He became the pawn in a game where the stakes were the entire command of the Belfast IRA. For these two men, enmeshed in Ulsters centuries of turmoil, this was to become their Field of Blood.

Members Reviews:

Seymo ur always 5 stars.

If you don't know Gerald Seymour's work, you are really missing something important in the espionage genre. See my review of The Unknown Soldier.

Beautiful Green and Bloody Red

If you enjoy reading of Irish history in fiction you will probably enjoy Seymour`s book. I have enjoyed this one as well as his others.

Very good by a very good author.

An in your face, brutal, no holds barred story not only about the daily life of a family that wants a new beginning, but is also about the police and army personnel that have given up a 9 to 5 existence to be involved in the urban guerrilla warfare that had threatened to tear Northern Ireland apart. More specifically, the story's central character Sean McNally is a tout, but not just any tout, he is a tout of the highest order. He is super tout who has names of that go the way up the chain. He's a betrayer, a super tout, who is looking at twenty five years to life for the brutal murder of a judge from the use, of all things, a rocket launcher and he now he wants immunity for it. Will the government give it or will they wilt and send him off to prison instead? Also, who in their right mind would give such a person immunity anyway?

Another character, is Lt. David Ferris, who, as the arresting officer, is mixed up to his nuts with McNally and also with the Criminal Investigation Special (CIS) Branch.They are pushing him all the way because they want a result, they need a result and he can get it for them too. Ferris is a busy man because he's involved not only with the case, but also he is a full time officer the British army who works well and truly around the clock. He's on foot patrol with rocks and all sorts of things in his face, he's in charge of his unit leading the way and he knows that the Turf Lodge Estate where he often visits, is a melting pot of hatred against the British Army. His life is not easy. He has to face the viciousness, the violence and the abhorrence in Northern Ireland on a daily basis. That's his life.

A 'Field of Blood' as Seymour reminds us, inside the front cover, is a place where betrayers, such as, Judas Iscariot was buried. He hung himself, of course, and the thirty pieces of silver he had couldn't be returned. So it was used to buy a small field to bury him. Now, until this day, that field is called "Hakeldama" or a field of blood. So Seymour asks the question, will this be where McNally ends up or will he end up getting immunity and a new life away from friends and everyone he knows?

Its a very pyrrhic story where there are lots of losers and if there are any winners, it comes at an excessive cost.