Death and Glory

A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

By: Will Thomas

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

"Ferguson delivers posh English accents and Cockney slang with personality for a cast of amusing characters. The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns"—AudioFile on Heart of the Nile

In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War by prominent figures, long believed deceased.

Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplished history—he's taken on cases for Scotland Yard, the Foreign Office, and even the crown itself, fulfilling them all with great skill and discretion. None of those cases, however, are as delicate and complicated as the one laid before him by a delegation of men who, thirty years before, fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. These men want to revive the Confederacy with a warship promised to the Rebels from the British Government in 1865. To get it now, they're threatening to reveal the long-secret treaty with the Confederacy. Barker is hired to use his connections to discreetly bring their threats to the Prime Minister.

With a web of prominent, if secret, supporters throughout England ready to through their support to their efforts to wage war anew on the United States, the delegates are just waiting for the warship to begin their plans. But some of the men are not who they claim to be, and the American government has their own team watching, and waiting, for the right moment to take action.

As this fuse on this powder keg of a situation grows ever shorter, it's up to Barker & Llewelyn to uncover the real identities and plans of these dangerous men.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

©2024 Will Thomas (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Another entertaining adventure

Another excellent combination of story, characters and narration. The storyline and characters progress with each new book.

Another good Will Thomas novel.

I love Barker and Llewelyn mysteries. This one did not disappoint! I never get bored of these characters.

The Confederacy rises again in latest Barker & Llewelyn novel

As always, the narration & performance is excellent in this (as of this writing) newly released B & L tale.

The plot is ambitious & for people who don’t live a county away from the current KKK headquarters in the U.S. south in a state littered with confederate monuments, street names, and armed men who—I assure you do not attend balls, own a suit, read Shakespeare, or possess the ability to identify other countries on a map—but are pretty much still trying to achieve the same ultimate goals as this fictional plot, it seems ho-hum.
The author did a good job soft pedaling a lot of things—if human slavery is the kind of “minor” detail he’s cool with glossing over, sort of like he glossed over the minor story structure element of “ending.”

As in, the story simply quit with a whimper.
The normal supporting characters and dog barely appear. I still enjoyed it, but for me personally, it wasn’t very escapist. For other people not from the Deep South, it is likely an interesting plot.

I will still buy the next one because the series is entertaining; everyone likes some stories in a series better than others.