• The Unlikely Spy

  • By: Daniel Silva
  • Narrated by: Michael Page
  • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (3,249 ratings)

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The Unlikely Spy

By: Daniel Silva
Narrated by: Michael Page
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Publisher's summary

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva’s celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is “A roller-coaster World War II adventure that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth” (The Orlando Sentinel).

“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent. Catherine Blake is the beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer - and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...

©2009 Daniel Silva (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Evocative...memorable...a classic World War II espionage tale.” (The Washington Post)

“Briskly suspenseful.” (The New York Times)

“Layers of depth and intrigue...Silva succeeds with panache.” (USA Today)

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Deathly boring for a spy book until the last 1/4 of the book

I almost gave up a few times. I didn’t know action spy themes could be so boring. However if you stick with it, the last 1/4 of the book is very good and then I couldn’t stop listening. The narrator is good for the male voices. The female voices were just weird. I don’t understand why they don’t use different people for the different voices.

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Gratuitous Sex Ruined It

I almost stopped listening! I had to constantly fast forward through the explicit sexual portions which were not relevant to the story at all.

Daniel Silva is a gifted writer and the actual story and plot were well written. Just wish I hadn't had to be on guard the whole book long!

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Spies everywhere!

I really enjoyed this book. Narration was great! It was exciting and thoroughly engrossing. Mostly about the DDay planning and the difficulty of keeping the plans secret. My only complaint is that it was a bit hard to follow-there were so many characters and so much intrigue. German spies, American spies, British spies, and some turned German spies who were captured and now working for the British. Lots of names! The main characters, however, were very interesting and I got a sense of what war does to people who otherwise would not be in these positions. I really liked this book and could follow enough to understand the complicated plot- for the most part. I definitely recommend this book if you like intrigue and stories about WW11.

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Story was fine but the characters were lacking.

I really wanted to like this book but I just kept hoping I would get to the end. The story was good but from knowing history, I knew what the end result was going to be. I wanted to get more wrapped up in the characters and the story. It had so much potential but just didn't come through. I wanted more and couldn't figure out what was missing until I next read a Margaret Atwood book. Her characters and the story was like pealing an onion. You kept getting more and more the more you pealed it back. The characters in this book were not filled out, they were too impersonal. I didn't care. I would have like the book to be shorter but deeper.

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interesting characters - many twists

I thought this spy novel by Daniel Silva was good. The narrator was right on and there was good character development and historical action. Enjoyed.

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hate it

What about Michael Page’s performance did you like?

Michael Page was spectacular as usual, the book sucked

If you could rename The Unlikely Spy, what would you call it?

Everyone you know will screw you over,

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Good plot filthy language

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Eliminate the explicit violence and sex. The plot as far as I went was a good one. The characters realistic.

What was most disappointing about Daniel Silva’s story?

Explicit violence and sex

Have you listened to any of Michael Page’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Good performance

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disgust

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  • 06-07-11

Super Entertaining

This was my first Daniel Silva book. I downloaded it based upon the other reviews, and I'm so glad I did! The story was riveting, the characters were well drawn, the narrator was "spot on," and I didn't want the story to end. I'm definitely going to download more Daniel Silva books.

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A Master is Born

I tired of waiting for the next Allon installment, so decided to go with this, Silva's first. I was extremely pleased. I don't know if he's done anything this good since. Oh, yes I do; he has, again and again!

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Should have been called "Debbie Does Europe"

I now know in detailed frequency where the nether regions of 97% of all the characters have been. Ummm...yay? While I found many parts of the story tiresome, silly and entirely unnecessary, it had unfulfilled potential. I'm in agreement with other reviewers about the narrator, though. Well done, Mr. Page!

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