Karl K
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Contact
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own.
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Excellent
- By W on 29-05-15
- Contact
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Only half a sci fi book
Reviewed: 27-01-24
You could cut cut out 60% of this book and it would be better. The majority of the book is introversion and boring soul searching. Also the 3 nr literature quotes at the start of each chapter is annoying. As an astronomer Carl Sagan is up there with the best as an author nah.
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Die Last
- DC Max Wolfe, Book 4
- By: Tony Parsons
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Twelve passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.
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Max, oh dear
- By Karl K on 27-04-23
- Die Last
- DC Max Wolfe, Book 4
- By: Tony Parsons
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
Max, oh dear
Reviewed: 27-04-23
I didn't enjoy this the 4th Max Wolf book, the storyline is not believable with just too much bleeding heart sentiment and Max in implausible deadly situations with all too tidy ending
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The Lighterman: The Kray Twins Are Out for Revenge...
- Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers, Book 3
- By: Simon Michael
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Psychopathic gangster Ronnie Kray has a “list” of persons who have “taken liberties” and who are to be disposed of, and now barrister Charles Holborne finds his name at the top of the list. He can’t spend his life looking over his shoulder, but how to take the fight to the two most violent gangsters in London?
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Another great book
- By Mr on 01-11-22
- The Lighterman: The Kray Twins Are Out for Revenge...
- Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers, Book 3
- By: Simon Michael
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
Charles under the Krays cosh
Reviewed: 01-12-22
I was surprised and initially disappointed that the author took over the narration after the first two books as the previous narrator did a great job but after a while I got used to it and he is equally as good. looking forward to the next in the series.
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The IPCRESS File
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The IPCRESS File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960s London.
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An amazing listen
- By A P Harris on 18-10-21
- The IPCRESS File
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
very different to the film
Reviewed: 29-10-22
the performance is very good, the storyline is convoluted in the middle and doesn't add anything but that said enjoyed it
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Carte Blanche
- A James Bond Novel
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. 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. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission.
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A new premium Bond
- By Clifford on 27-05-11
- Carte Blanche
- A James Bond Novel
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
Dull
Reviewed: 05-07-22
My first bond story by this author who,s Bond is dull, the story lacked excitement and plodded on
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The Regiment
- 15 Years in the SAS
- By: Rusty Firmin
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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From its early beginnings in World War II, the Special Air Service (SAS) has won renown in some of the most dramatic, dangerous and controversial military special operations of the 20th century. It is a secretive and mysterious unit, whose operations and internal structures are hidden from the public eye. Now, one of its longest-serving veterans offers a glimpse into the shadowy world of the SAS. Rusty Firmin spent an incredible 15 years with 'The Regiment' and was a key figure in the assault of the Iranian Embassy in London in May 1980.
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WHAT A LOAD OF SELF LOATHING GUFF
- By Ryan on 15-08-20
- The Regiment
- 15 Years in the SAS
- By: Rusty Firmin
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson
interesting but not exciting
Reviewed: 12-03-22
The author entered into the army as a boy soldier from a broken background and eventually became a SAS solder, he took part in oly one SAS operation the Iran embassy siege.
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Killing the Bismarck
- Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
- By: Iain Ballantyne
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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In May 1941 the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved.
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Shame about the narration
- By Paul on 11-06-18
- Killing the Bismarck
- Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
- By: Iain Ballantyne
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
awful narration
Reviewed: 24-01-22
I was very interested in the subject so persevered with it despite the awful narration. Firstly the narrator is American for which is a seminal moment in British history was annoying but mainly the narrators enunciation and constant pausing mid sentence. The subject itself is very detailed and informative.
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The Black Echo: Special Edition
- Harry Bosch, Book 1
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.
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3.5 stars. Mostly positive but has issues
- By James Abernethy on 13-09-20
- The Black Echo: Special Edition
- Harry Bosch, Book 1
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Bosch
Reviewed: 11-01-22
As I like the Bosch TV show I gave this a go and was not disappointed. The narration by Titus Weliver was just like listening to the TV show. The story is interesting with a Vietnam war backstory, I like the way the story is set in the 80s pre mobile phones rather than today. As in all thrillers you have to wait till the last chapter to fill in all the blanks.
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Destiny in the Desert
- By: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning'. And yet the true significance of this iconic episode remains unrecognised.
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A great overview
- By Mr. T. P. Quinn on 18-05-20
- Destiny in the Desert
- By: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
The end of the beginning
Reviewed: 08-11-21
Narrated by the author a familiar voice, his book is a well researched history of the allied and axis forces batteling in the Western desert. Politics, intrigue, military brilliance and incompetence feature throughout.
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Fur Volk and Fuhrer
- The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
- By: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis. Convinced he was growing up in the best country in the world, he dreamt of joining the Leibstandarte, Hitler's elite Waffen SS unit. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, and just 17-years-old, Erwin fulfilled his dream on Mayday 1941, when he gave up his apprenticeship at the Glaser bakery in Memeler Strasse and walked into the Lichterfelde barracks in Berlin as a raw, volunteer recruit.
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Pro-Nazi?
- By Amazon Customer on 16-09-17
- Fur Volk and Fuhrer
- The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
- By: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
- Narrated by: James Foster
A SS soldier's story
Reviewed: 01-03-21
A very different soldiers memoir to the usual insofar as he spent half of his war away from the front in his home town of Berlin. The story of life in Berlin at the time was very interesting.
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