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During the Arab Spring, an American spy’s final mission goes dangerously awry in this eerily realistic and sophisticated espionage debut from a former CIA officer that is perfect for fans of John le Carré, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Alan Furst.
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When Alex and Diane meet, there are instant, undeniable sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia: independent, highly competent, and seemingly settled in their comfortable lives. She runs a successful catering business. He's a detail-oriented, rough-hewn thief who robs banks, casinos, and jewelry stores. They're immediately drawn to each other, but neither realizes initially that their lives have overlapped once before, under dangerous circumstances. Soon their shared history and burgeoning relationship will threaten everything they love.
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At the top of my list of favorites
- De Victor V. Cachia en 09-29-20
De: Stan Parish
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
- De: Michael Koryta
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Janina Edwards, Fajer Al-Kaisi, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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Picture in the Sand
- De: Peter Blauner
- Narrado por: Sean Rohani
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Ali Hassan, an Egyptian-American businessman in Brooklyn, reveals a secret past of activism and heartbreak in an attempt to keep his hot-headed teenaged grandson from making the greatest mistake of his life. In a journey that begins amid the high-wattage glamour of the sets of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments and leads to the deserts of Cairo and beyond, Ali describes how he landed a dream job as DeMille’s personal assistant and then found himself enmeshed in events that changed the course of history.
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Well narrated and worth the read
- De Mustella en 01-21-23
De: Peter Blauner
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The Murderer in Ruins
- CI Frank Stave, Book 1
- De: Cay Rademacher
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. Food is scarce; refugees and the homeless crowd into shantytowns and sheds. There is a killer on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Plagued with worry about his missing son, Frank Stave is a career policeman with a tragedy in his past that is driving his determination to find the killer.
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Wasn't sure at first, but...
- De John S. en 01-14-21
De: Cay Rademacher
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The Last Refuge
- De: Chris Knopf
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
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Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line: he's a middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea. But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam is the only one who wonders why.
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A hero who doesn't work and play well with others.
- De Cholmondeley en 04-04-13
De: Chris Knopf
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Tarantula
- A John Milton Short Story
- De: Mark Dawson
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- De Wayne en 06-03-16
De: Mark Dawson
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Prince of Spies
- The Richard Prince Thrillers, Book 1
- De: Alex Gerlis
- Narrado por: Rupert Bush
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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1942: a German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him.... In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife. Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival - and the war effort - hangs in the balance.
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An excellent story, however...
- De A Happy Sort Of OCD en 03-23-22
De: Alex Gerlis
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Crooked
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Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film—has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning glory.
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Highly recommended
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Best book of 2023 by far
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.
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Difficult Engagement, Stretching Credulity
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Only she knows the truth. Only he can tell the world. Vienna, 1946. A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life. Moscow, 1964. A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems. London, the present day. A once promising academic offered an opportunity to seal his place in history. Their stories, their lives, and the fate of the world, are bound by a single document: The Scarlet Papers. The devastating secrets contained within teased by a brief invitation: Tomorrow 11AM. Take a cab and pay in cash. Tell no one.
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Wow
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Murder by Degrees
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Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid’s death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation.
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In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan’s investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco.
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Excellent setting!(spoiler free)
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Crooked
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Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film—has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning glory.
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Highly recommended
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Best book of 2023 by far
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.
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The Scarlet Papers
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Only she knows the truth. Only he can tell the world. Vienna, 1946. A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life. Moscow, 1964. A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems. London, the present day. A once promising academic offered an opportunity to seal his place in history. Their stories, their lives, and the fate of the world, are bound by a single document: The Scarlet Papers. The devastating secrets contained within teased by a brief invitation: Tomorrow 11AM. Take a cab and pay in cash. Tell no one.
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Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid’s death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation.
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In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan’s investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco.
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Hallowed Ground
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- De: Linda Castillo
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When a family dog brings home a human bone, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself on a desperate search for answers. Where did the bone come from? Who does it belong to? And perhaps most importantly, are the bones a result of foul play? With Halloween approaching, the unsettling questions garner uneasiness, rumors, and macabre theories among the residents of Painters Mill.
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The Kate Burkholder We All Know And Love!
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Small Town Sins
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- De: Ken Jaworowski
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In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles have just arrived.
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Relentlessly dark
- De Anonymous User en 09-13-23
De: Ken Jaworowski
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Box 88
- Lachlan Kite Series, Book 1
- De: Charles Cumming
- Narrado por: Charlie Ansen
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Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black-ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence - but even the best spy can't anticipate every potential threat in a world where dangerous actors lurk around every corner. At the funeral of his childhood best friend, Lachlan falls into a trap that drops him into the hands of a potentially deadly interrogation, with his pregnant wife, also abducted, being held as collateral for the information he's sworn on his own life to protect.
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Excellent
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De: Charles Cumming
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Phantom Orbit
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- De: David Ignatius
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
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David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work.
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Frustrating waste of time
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Damascus Station
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- De: David McCloskey
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CIA Case Officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime.
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The Performance !
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When disgraced spy Solomon Vine's friend and rival Gabriel Wilde vanishes without trace, it's only Vine who might be able to discover what has happened to him. A single missing file holds the key. That, too, is gone. But its contents, Vine is told, are incendiary. There were few Wilde could trust. And being one of them appears to have fatal consequences. But as Vine's off-the-books investigation begins to reveal the shocking truth, he realizes there's much more at stake than one man's life.
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slow and boring
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The Last Russian Doll
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In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls. One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother. Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand—and bury—the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed only with her mother’s folklore—and a key.
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Captivating and accurate
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Lebanon, 2006. The Israel–Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart and the country is on the brink of chaos. The CIA and Mossad are targeting a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist. They turn to young Lebanese-American CIA agent, Analise, who has the perfect plan. However, Analise begins to suspect that Mossad has a motive of its own. She alerts the agency but their response is for her to drop it. Analise is now the target and there is no one she can trust.
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Dead Drop
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Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point. The new American administration is determined to move ahead, but there are several stumbling blocks, not the least of which is Lieutenant Colonel Kasem Khalidi, the former Iranian Quds Force intelligence officer the CIA has hidden away in one of its safe houses. As always, John and Meredith Dale are caught in the middle.
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New author to me
- De Wesley Rivera en 02-17-24
De: M.P. Woodward
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Boomtown
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Police captain Delia Mariola is still struggling to drive the predatory drug dealers from the rustbelt town of Baxter, before the new Nissan plant owners lose faith in this forgotten corner of America. It doesn't help that a boomtown has grown up just outside of city limits—a wild west designed to feed every unsavory desire of the workers building the plant. And like vultures homing in on the weak, criminal gangs from the big cities have also been drawn to the boomtown, knowing how freely money will flow to those willing to supply drugs and women to these workers far from home.
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Atmosphere Atmosphere Atmosphere
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De: A. F. Carter
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The Insider
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A Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a London hotel. Only four people knew he had turned - the four most important and powerful figures in Whitehall. There's only one conclusion - a mole has infiltrated the highest levels of the nation's security. Operating in secret from within Westminster's darkest corners, former spy Solomon Vine must uncover the traitor. Because Britain's future hangs in the balance. And with it the fate of the whole world.
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A TRUELY EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG AUTHOR
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The Helsinki Affair
- De: Anna Pitoniak
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
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Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world—but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself. The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Though Amanda takes the warning seriously, her superiors don’t. Twenty-four hours later, the senator is dead. And the assassination is just the beginning.
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Terrible reader pronunciation
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- Nancy
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Better and better as the story evolves
Detailed and poignant nuanced description of life as a spy. Reads like LeCarre in modern backdrop of Middle Eastern conflicts.
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- Victoria Wagner
- 06-04-23
Good Read
This story sounds very authentic. It made me want to go back to Arab Spring and read more. I was especially interested in Bahrain and read about the events there. It took me a little bit to get into the narrator’s voice but eventually I did. I will watch for more books from this author.
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- T.K. Cook
- 09-22-23
Fantastic reading of a stunning novel
I’m sometimes distracted by audiobook narrators (especially when I am reading the book simultaneously or have read it) but this actor did a phenomenal job of distinguishing the characters and letting the beauty of the prose shine through. I recommend this for fans of classic spy novels or literary fiction. The author deftly incorporates her background as a spy and her international travel experience into the story. The places and people pop. Highly recommend!
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- Alex Sierra
- 12-24-23
Wonderful literary debut, great spy novel
The pacing of the story was great - plot unfolded in a way that felt real. Loved the descriptions of the settings.
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- Stephen86336
- 01-11-24
Nice writing slow start , long finish
The Writing is good but the organizatio of the story,fine in detail of place and character flows sometimes too slowly and sometimes like a to quick wrap up. I think still better work from the author. The beginning is not bad but slow. The middle flows well. But the ending coda contains too much of the plot that should have been woven into the story. The narrator is good but very downbeat rather than evocative or sorrowful. Do recommend it.
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- 10-20-23
Excellent, clever, and well performed.
One needs to pay close attention. No good guys or gals in here. Antiheroes abound. Could have happened just as the story suggests. The CIA and USN take the biggest hits
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- Rick
- 09-02-23
Well written story with interesting outcome
As someone familiar with the area and the characters depicted in the story, it took me a while to warm up to the characters. As the story progressed, the descriptive narrative dropped bread crumbs along the path towards the ending that seem to lay the groundwork for a series IF the author elects to pick up the story in another book. Shades of LeCarre in here. Both subtle and raw. Nice work.
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- Heidi
- 07-03-23
Riveting!
Unique, believable characters, vivid descriptions of a world I knew virtually nothing about, and a plot with countless unexpected twists!
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- Reed Ramlow
- 07-12-23
Who are the good guys?
A well-conceived spy thriller containing surprising twists. I would categorize “The Peacock and the Sparrow” as literary spy fiction in the tradition of the master, John Le Carré. The story has its backdrop, a time of revolutionary foment in Bahrain, pitting the Shiite majority against its Sunni king. The CIA suspects the Shiite revolutionaries are gaining overt support from Iran, a notion that the Bahrain government wants to encourage to undo a US arms embargo. The main character is CIA case officer Shane Collins, a raging alcoholic who’s as hard-boiled as they come in the legion of morally ambiguous intelligence officers. In spy literature, you don’t have to root for the main character. You simply must find them interesting. Treachery is always on the cusp. In reading the novel, I was reminded of Burt Lancaster’s immortal line in “The Professionals”: “Maybe there's only one revolution, since the beginning, the good guys against the bad guys. Question is, who are the good guys?”
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- John McCann
- 08-19-23
Rehash of ideas
Rehash of ideas from other authors of espionage fiction. Commentary about tradecraft was annoying. Particularly because most of it was so inane.
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