M, Le Bord de l'abîme

By: Bernard Minier

Narrated by: Hugues Martel

Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Pourquoi Moïra, une jeune Française, se retrouve-t-elle à Hong Kong chez Ming, le géant chinois du numérique ?
Pourquoi, dès le premier soir, est-elle abordée par la police ?
Pourquoi le Centre, siège ultramoderne de Ming, cache-t-il tant de secrets ?
Pourquoi Moïra se sent-elle en permanence suivie et espionnée ?
Pourquoi les morts violentes se multiplient parmi les employés du Centre - assassinats, accidents, suicides ?
Alors qu'elle démarre à peine sa mission, Moïra acquiert la conviction que la vérité qui l'attend au bout de la nuit sera plus effroyable que le plus terrifiant des cauchemars.

©2019 XO Éditions (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris

Excellent

Une histoire qui addresse des problemes contemporains. Un lecteur avec une voix superbe! génial !

Simply excellent

This is the 7th Minier book that is narrated by the amazing narator Hugues Martel that I have finished. The first one without detective Martin Servas and set outside of France. While the background to the crime story in the foreground is an area that I did not expect from B. Minier -Hong Kong, artificial intelligence.- this breathtaking book proves again how amazing, this Author is. Hugues Martel’s natural, full of talent naration is doubling the plaisure. I am a huge fan of both.
One slightly disturbing topic which has nothing to do with the book itself is the obvious mismatch between the original chapter numbering of the book and the chapters in the Audiobook application. While the chapter Audiobook shows is say 58 the narrator reads in the middle of such chapter “Chapter 39” for example. This was the case with all the audiobooks I listened including B. Minier books. I wonder why this is happening.
Anyway, I would recommend this book to anyone without hesitation.

Good to fall asleep quickly with

What a disappointment. I quite liked some of Minier’s earlier books. This one, on the other hand, is no more than a mixture of computer technical manual, tired Dr. Fu Manchu yellow-peril racist cliches complete with long curved yellow fingernails, and superficial xenophobic stereotypes of Hong Kong the city and its residents. Pure Garbage.
It is hard to listen to - the writer totally insults the listener’s intelligence. On top of that, it is SOOOO tedious. There is no suspense, no plot, no logic, no interesting characters.
It does put people to sleep pretty quickly - so if you are looking for chemical-free sleeping-aid, this may work for you.
Be careful, thought, it may bore you to death.