The plot, characters, and narration are great!!! I can only tell you I really enjoyed this story, and am sad the author gave up this genre for mysteries. The story reached out and grabbed me in with the characters. I empathized with their trial and tribulations and actually got emotional at different parts in the story. I highly recommend this book if you are into historical fiction!!!

Great, challenging and believable story that is anchored by a stunning performance by Dick Hill. The 21 hrs never dragged and thankfully I found another of Greg Iles's stories narrated by Dick Hill and was again blown away by the quality. If you like historical fiction you will LOVE this book.

If the main characters weren't so unlikable. Even the "good guys" were jerks.

It never really got interesting.

He wasn't great, but he wasn't really the problem.

It kept me awake in traffic

First book from Audible that I have been disappointed with. I can see why it was on sale.

I struggled with this book, as I really wanted to like it but parts just seemed to drag. Actually had to fast forward through a few chapters just to keep it moving.

Actually took forever to get to the action. the parts of life in the camp did not add anything to this story for me.

I may be in the minority here but I do not enjoy a Dick Hill book anymore. His constantly whiny female voices are killing me. Add that to his uneven tones and volumes I really will avoid his work for awhile

50/50 here. Good premise but dragged a lot and seemed like more more work than fun in the end.

Narrated by the amazing Dick Hill, Black Cross is a long listen, over twenty hours. The story begins with the death of WWII veteran Michael McConnell, who, typical of all war veterans, has never conveyed any details of his service, neither to his wife nor his son. An old companion, aware of these secrets, seeks out McConnell's son, and deems that some amazing heroics and history needs told or forever lost. The book is the narration of Michael McConnell’s horrific tale.

There is latitude taken by the author, as it pertains to point of view and writing technique. The story is supposed to be a documented history, as witnessed by Michael McConnell. Several scenes, most in fact, are such that McConnell cannot and doesn't witness them, the scenes include other ancillary characters and it’s never exactly clear how McConnell could be aware of these instances. For example, conversations between Churchill and his generals while McConnell is working in a lab at Oxford. Scenes that take place between two women in a concentration camp, or between a concentration camp prisoner and an SS agent. How can these events be conveyed without ever having been witnessed by McConnell himself? Much of the story is basically hearsay.

This conundrum aside, the tale is gripping and a sad commentary of the inhumanity inflicted by humans upon each other. Greg Iles thought Black Cross was one of his best efforts … it is, albeit distressing and terribly sad. Although fiction, the basics of the atrocities inflicted by Germany are true.

Excellent narration, of course, by Dick Hill. Well worth the credits.

I am very interested in the topic. However it feels like a textbook or technical journal rather than a story or work of fiction. I haven't gotten very far, but that says a lot I gobble up books when they're good.

The action was intense! I couldn't stop listening!

I am a huge fan of Ken Follett. This book exceeded my expectations! It starts fast and keeps the pace all the way through! Dick Hill is one of the best narrators I have heard. Listening to this book is like listening to a play. Each character is acted out perfectly! Loved it!

This book is a story with action, science, war history and good against evil. I thought the way a history of war was told with a fictional story was just perfect. I enjoyed this book and will definitely listen to it again, I never have listened to a book twice.
You will be drawn in by the stories characters and cheer them on, even when they do something that seems stupid and senseless. It is all woven into a great story with a super ending.
I bought the book because I think Dick Hill is the best narrator of all the books I have listened too. He didn't disappoint me. In fact, I am a huge Jack Reacher fan and that's one of his great characters. However, he did an incredible job with all the characters in this book. Women, Men, Nazis, Scottish. He ran the gamut of voices and accents.
I was super impressed by his range of voices and accents. What a great job Mr. Hill.
Buy the book and enjoy the story, you won't be disappointed.

I didn't give this one 5 stars, not because the writing was flawed, but because it was just so intense and brutal in the descriptions of what happened to Jews and others in concentration camps and on the battlefield. It certainly is a book that will stay with me for awhile, but it's not a pleasant memory. War isn't pretty, but this was a little much for me.

This was a great novel that was adversely affected by flawed narration, to the point where I wanted to give up listening to it--I only stuck it out because the story was compelling. The narrator went from whispering and talking too softly to nearly shouting, and I had to spend so much time adjusting the volume that I was constantly knocked out of the book.

Perhaps this was a function of me listening to it during my daily commute, but I've listened to many books during this commute and this is the only one I've had this problem with.

But to be fair to the narrator, aside from volume level, he did a very good job with tone, voice differences, etc.