Argylle

A Novel

By: Elly Conway

Narrated by: Dakota Blue Richards

Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the action blockbuster Argylle, featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame

A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.

A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle.

A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland.

A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades.

One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos.

Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special.

Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first...

©2024 Elly Conway (P)2024 Random House Audio

Bait & Switch

If you are expecting a glimpse at the movie coming out, an action comedy, you will be woefully dissapointed. The begining seems like a love letter to Russia. The narration awful and monotone. Location and time jumps that make absolutely no sense other than to move plot along.

I've never said this before, but I think the movie will be better than the book.

HARD PASS

Investigating if I can return and get a credit back.

Lack Luster Story; Awful Performance

The story was ok. The performance….was just terrible. Constant mispronunciations and a weird attempts to embody masculine military communications made the whole thing feel like an awkward high school production.

Odd narration

The narrator has very good accents, but mispronounced many words. After listening, I am fairly certain that Taylor swift did not write this book. I think the movie will be better than the book.

The performance was great and the details and character development was good but the story was predictable

That the book was nothing like what the movie will be

The fact that it was touted as the movie the book was based upon on

Wrong Narrator for the Story

While the author is clear that this book is work of fiction, and there may be mistakes…it doesn’t help that the dialect of a UK speaker is used in a story about an American institution. But then again, the author has written the dialect in the story and her ownership of the mistakes. By the way, I wouldn’t call a Marine who no longer serves an “ex-Marine”, ‘cause those are fighting words.

Classic Spy Story

Loved trying to piece together who the mole was throughout the story. I also loved the way they introduced the characters in a way that made you not want it to be any of them nor did you really suspect any of them either. Some of the geography descriptions were a bit hard to follow, but overall the story was great!

Read because there was a movie

I don’t see how it relates to the trailer of the movie. Narrator mispronounces words like Semper FI and Soviet.

Boring narration

Maybe it’s better if you read the physical book? I was so bored. It’s narrated like the first audio book ever made… full and lifeless

It was fun

Maybe not a five star but I didn’t hate it was fine. Had a fun twist you could see it coming but still made sense to the story !