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Title: The Collaborators

Author: Reginald Hill

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-06

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Fiercely patriotic, and the wife of a Jew, Janine had always been outspoken in her condemnation of the Nazis. Abwehr intelligence officer Günter Mai judged her the unlikeliest of recruits for his network of informants, resistant to all the usual triggers...until the Gestapo's reign of terror intensified, and her children were rounded up for deportation.

This is a powerful tale of conscience and betrayal, as shocking as it is moving. It poses uncomfortable questions about the priorities of personal and national loyalty in a time of war.

Critic Reviews:

"The best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world." (Andrew Taylor)

Members Reviews:

Seamless twining of threads

Reginald Hill twists and twines his story threads so smoothly. Set mainly in Paris during WWII, this is a compassionate look at collaboration in all its shades of grey. Despite being an examination of personal versus national responsibilities, this is a 'cracking good yarn' with wonderful characters and an exciting plot. I found it hard to put down. The narration really added depth to the characters. The narrator used regional accents to give subtlety to the 'station' and 'power' of certain characters. The regional accents were British and not every listener will be familiar with these, but it's worth getting to know them as they will add to your range of aural understanding.

Extraordinary !

Complicated characters and French names made this book a challenge for me but persistence shed light on at part of WWII that I know so little about ??? Occupied France and the French Resistant. All questions of quilt/innocence are complicated and Reginald Hill knits the plot brilliantly.

Great listen but I listened to it twice before I understood who was doing what to whom. Worth it !!!

wonderful

Reginald Hill is a treasure ... beautifully written and wonderfully told.

would highly recommend to anyone interested in this time period.

Hill proves he was more than just a mystery writer, but a historian as well.

the narrator is one of the best in the business

Unfortunate

The book is narrated by a British man with a heavy British accent. Unlike many other good audiobooks, the narrator doesn't bother trying to do accents that fit the nationality they are reading (French, German, etc) but just reads with different British accents. Also, the book itself is about an incredibly dense wife who is hopelessly ignorant to the ways of the world. The book is a giant cliche, and unfortunately isn't that interesting.

the Collaborators

I had only listened to Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe novels until now. It was an exellent listen tI couldn't stop listening too. There was a small amount of mystery in it, life in Paris under the Nazi's and what one women had to do to protect her family

Highly recomended