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- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade.
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Masterful
- De Buzz en 03-25-11
De: Jonathan Rabb
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Smoke and Whispers
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Julia Franklin
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as Private Detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.
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Enjoyed but no Slow Horses
- De J. Belinda Yandell en 03-31-24
De: Mick Herron
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Koko
- Blue Rose Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
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KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York.
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7 hours in and I am done
- De bionichands en 01-26-12
De: Peter Straub
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The Letter Writer
- A Novel
- De: Dan Fesperman
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Who exactly is Danziger? He's a writer of letters for illiterate immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side - "a steadfast practitioner of concealing and forgetting" for his clients, and perhaps for himself: He hints at a much worldlier past. What and whoever he really is or has been, he has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city and its denizens. And he knows much more than the mere identity of the floating corpse.
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Mobsters and Cops, NYC, 1942
- De RueRue en 07-22-16
De: Dan Fesperman
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The Merlot Murders
- A Wine Country Mystery
- De: Ellen Crosby
- Narrado por: P. J. Davis-Oran
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Lucie Montgomery's semi-estranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her that their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family's 500-acre Virginia vineyard. But the vineyard is now shabby and run-down and her siblings want to sell it. Then Lucie's godfather tells her Leland's death was no accident. With her greedy brother, hell-raising sister, and a seemingly cut-rate vintner hired by Leland just before he died, all the suspects are disturbingly close to home.
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Wine & history w/ your mystery!
- De Cracker1951 en 03-27-08
De: Ellen Crosby
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The Hunter
- De: Richard Stark
- Narrado por: John Chancer
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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You probably haven't noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They're heisters.
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A dark story
- De Dave Nelson en 04-06-13
De: Richard Stark
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The Spy Wore Red
- De: Aline, Countess of Romanones
- Narrado por: Grace Conlin
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or model might be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society, or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that is far more exciting than any fictionalized thriller.
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A must read!!
- De KaY.2012 en 12-29-14
De: Aline, y otros
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After the Monsoon
- An Ernst Grip Novel
- De: Robert Karjel
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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A Swedish army lieutenant drops dead on a shooting range in the desert. Was it an unfortunate accident - or something more nefarious? Ernst Grip, an agent of the Swedish security police, is sent to the Horn of Africa to find out. Once he’s on the ground, however, he quickly discovers he’s on his own. No one wants him snooping around - especially not the US Embassy’s CIA station. Which is no surprise, given that military transport planes are leaving from the base carrying untraceable pallets loaded with cash.
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Difficult book to review. Pulse-pounding? Not.
- De Richard Delman en 08-18-18
De: Robert Karjel
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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Stormbreaker
- The First Alex Rider Adventure
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Parker
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
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Okay action story held up by an great narrator
- De Mary Fan en 08-13-13
De: Anthony Horowitz
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Dead Irish
- Dismas Hardy, Book 1
- De: John Lescroart
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.
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Soap-opera thrillers?
- De Snoodely en 01-27-10
De: John Lescroart
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The Berlin Exchange
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Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system.
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A fabulous thriller. As good as LeCarre
- De Rosemary Wells en 04-02-22
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Leaving Berlin
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Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life.
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Espionage In Berlin 1948
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The Accomplice
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- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz - nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina’s Juan Perón gave them safe harbor and new identities.
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Nazi Hunters
- De Renee Wilson en 04-13-20
De: Joseph Kanon
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Los Alamos
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer’s "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project.
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Terrible sound quality
- De JOSEPH en 12-14-12
De: Joseph Kanon
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Defectors
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.
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Superb thriller!
- De Rosemary Wells en 06-15-17
De: Joseph Kanon
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Shanghai
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h
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After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.
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The Berlin Exchange
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Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system.
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A fabulous thriller. As good as LeCarre
- De Rosemary Wells en 04-02-22
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Leaving Berlin
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Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life.
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Espionage In Berlin 1948
- De Sara en 01-04-16
De: Joseph Kanon
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The Accomplice
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz - nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina’s Juan Perón gave them safe harbor and new identities.
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Nazi Hunters
- De Renee Wilson en 04-13-20
De: Joseph Kanon
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Los Alamos
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer’s "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project.
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Terrible sound quality
- De JOSEPH en 12-14-12
De: Joseph Kanon
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Defectors
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.
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Superb thriller!
- De Rosemary Wells en 06-15-17
De: Joseph Kanon
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Shanghai
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h
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After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.
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The Good German
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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At once a murder mystery, a moving love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place - Berlin, July 1945 - The Good German is a historical thriller of the first rank. The New York Times calls it "thoroughly captivating, a novel that brings to life the ambiguities at the heart of our country's moral legacy."
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A good listen
- De Stevon en 12-29-06
De: Joseph Kanon
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- De: Bettany Hughes
- Narrado por: Bettany Hughes
- Duración: 24 h y 35 m
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From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City", but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city but a global story.
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A daunting undertaking pulled off superlatively
- De SGS en 12-24-17
De: Bettany Hughes
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Alibi
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. Nothing has changed in Venice, not the beautiful palazzi, not the violins at Florian's, not the shifting water that makes the city, untouched by bombs, still seem a dream.
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Kanon abridged! Oh no!
- De Judith Seaboyer en 06-05-05
De: Joseph Kanon
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The Prodigal Spy
- A Novel
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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The Prodigal Spy is a story of fathers and sons and the loyalties that transcend borders, and of a young man's search for the truth buried in his own past, when a national drama was made personal and history itself became a crime story.
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Great story, poor quality audio
- De K. en 02-08-12
De: Joseph Kanon
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Vienna at Nightfall
- Alex Kovacs Thriller Series, Book 1
- De: Richard Wake
- Narrado por: Neill Thorne
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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Alex Kovacs can see what’s coming – he can, all of his friends can, all of Vienna can. When an opportunity presents itself, a chance to thwart the Nazi invasion of Austria, he agrees to join an espionage network that will take advantage of his regular business trips to Germany to gather secret information. But a personal tragedy soon complicates Alex’s mission and entangles him with a suspicious Gestapo captain in ways that he never anticipated.
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excellent
- De Fred en 02-25-23
De: Richard Wake
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Stardust
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself?
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Joseph Kanon owns this little corner of history.
- De Richard Delman en 04-27-15
De: Joseph Kanon
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Istanbul
- City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
- De: Thomas F. Madden
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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For more than two millennia, Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia. The history of this city - known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul - is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Founded by the Greeks, its location blessed it as a center for trade but also made it a target of every empire in history, from Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Empire, to the Romans and later the Ottomans.
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A History Without People
- De SeanO en 04-02-19
De: Thomas F. Madden
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My Name Is Red
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of 16th-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
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Complex and interesting
- De Kathleen en 05-13-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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Damascus Station
- A Novel
- De: David McCloskey
- Narrado por: Andrew B. Wehrlen
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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CIA Case Officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. But the cat-and-mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime.
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The Performance !
- De Allenby en 01-02-22
De: David McCloskey
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An Officer and a Spy
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus' guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military.
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Top Notch Historical Fiction
- De Ryan en 03-18-14
De: Robert Harris
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The Square of Sevens
- De: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
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Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient Cornish method of the Square of Sevens. Shortly before he dies, her father entrusts Red’s care to a gentleman scholar, along with a document containing the secret of the Square of Sevens technique.
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Written like a thriller, researched like a thesis
- De Rachel Carpman en 09-15-23
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Act of Oblivion
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Tim McInnerny
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I—a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles’ beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king’s death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.
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I've loved Robert Harris' Books; but...
- De Lucy en 10-16-22
De: Robert Harris
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Istanbul Passage
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- 07-06-12
A Spy Story The Keeps Your Interest
This is a great spy story set in post-war Turkey. It has all the intrigue, betrayal and deception you expect from a spy story along with the mysterious atmosphere of Istanbul. I found the characters original and interesting. The protagonist is presented with the type of moral dilemma usually found in literary novels. Unlike some recent mysteries and spy stories, this one kept my interest throughout and it worth your time. The narration takes a little getting used to but the cadence fits the author's prose.
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- Richard Delman
- 06-03-12
A very somber experience.
Joseph Kanon can write, that's for sure, and Jefferson Mays is a good narrator. Nonetheless, listening to this book was a deeply ambivalent experience for me. For one, WWII was well over sixty years ago. Two, Schindler's List was such an astounding work of art that it is in a class by itself. I know one can't compare an audiobook to a movie, but the story of helping the traumatized Jews leave Germany and Poland has been covered many times. The setting of this book, Istanbul, is an interesting city to read about, and the characters are well drawn. However, the book is weighed down by millions of details, and it really does get boring. The love interest between Leon Bauer and Kay Bishop is one place at which the book comes alive. This furtive relationship is a sidebar, though. The plot centers on Leon's attempt to get a Romanian monster, a true butcher of Jews, out of Istanbul and into the West. It is possible to respect and admire this book without actually enjoying it. Kanon does a great job of weaving historical truth with fiction, but, for my money, Martin Cruz Smith is such a master of this genre that no one can touch him. The atmosphere of the book is quaint and dated. I know that it does not take place in the present, but I just did not feel lured into it. The writing is turgid and distanced. This one is only for true WWII history buffs. Another movie which tells a closely related story (I know I'm straying here) and which few people have seen, is Charlotte Grey. Cate Blanchett is the finest actor of our generation, in my opinion, and the movie tells the story in a gripping, deeply involving way which moves you to a welter of emotions. I would see it five or six times (and I have) before listening to this book.
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- 05-09-17
Gripping and Surprising Spy Story
I battled a few times to get into this book and stopped listening. Until I persevered and once past the rather slow and depressing beginning I was gripped. The story moves along and with many twists and turns and a surprise ending. It turned out to be a rather good spy story and very atmospheric of what Istanbul must have been like at the time. Well worth a credit.
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- 09-13-12
Swept Away
This is a really good book.
When thinking about what I wanted to say in this review, Elizabeth Barrett Browning came to mind: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Here are three:
1. Attention to detail
Like an painter from the Realist School, Joseph Kanon's writing is detailed, accurate, and objective. His greatness is in the details.
This isn't a history lesson (like, say, Michener would write); rather, the book is a work of art. The detail of the setting (Istanbul just after the conclusion of the second World War) serves as the vase for the bouquet of flowers that is the story.
(Humorous aside: As I was listening to this book, I thought to myself that Istanbul Passage had the feel of another book I loved -- Los Alamos. I couldn't recall who wrote Los Alamos, so I went in search of the author. Surprise! Los Alamos is by Joseph Kanon.)
2. Story
Every once in a while, I come across a newspaper article about someone who, on a glorious day, sets out on a creek or river in a raft or kayak expecting to float along aimlessly to some unspecified destination. Along the way, invisible currents present themselves and turn the innocent outing into a situation of great peril.
Here's an example from one such newspaper article: "Before I realized it, the water was pushing me to the right, and I hear my dad yelling me to the left,” Amber recalled, “and it’s like, ‘I can’t. It’s too late at this point.’ ”
Amber could have been describing this book. She has perfectly summed up the story line of Istanbul Passage. What begins as a gentle current of self-inflicted events gradually overtakes American expatriate Leon Bauer. He thinks he's in control until, too late, he realizes that he's not.
I challenge you to find better story telling.
3. Reader
A great reader creates atmosphere and brings characters to life. Jefferson Mays gets an A+ in this regard. Istanbul Passage is a terrific listen.
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- Andrew Hall
- 08-13-20
Excellent
As a fan of the spy genre, I am so pleased to have stumbled upon this book and author. Vivid writing and gracious narration come together to tell a gripping tale that takes place along the shadowy banks of the Bosphorus.
I can’t wait to delve into this authors work further.
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- Sherri
- 10-29-12
Don't miss the boat.
The attention to detail is a feature of this great book. Joseph Kanon is a wonderful writer who's put together a thoughtful thriller set in a fascinating city during a turbulent time. I notice other reviews have quibbled about the narration -they're crackers, it's masterful.
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- Pamela
- 02-04-13
Was like a homework assignment
Would you try another book from Joseph Kanon and/or Jefferson Mays?
probably not
Would you recommend Istanbul Passage to your friends? Why or why not?
too hard too follow in an audio book, maybe it would've been better as a read
What didn’t you like about Jefferson Mays’s performance?
Too monotone.
Was Istanbul Passage worth the listening time?
It was last month's book club selection, or I wouldn't have finished it.
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- David Kirby
- 02-07-17
Narrator fails a good book
What did you like best about Istanbul Passage? What did you like least?
I liked the setting in an unfamiliar place. I liked the complexity of the plotting.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator, frankly, doesn't know how people talk. He read every line in a very distracting staccato, four or five words, pause, four or five more, pause. It is very jarring and off putting.
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- Connie
- 09-25-12
Thriller
What did you like best about Istanbul Passage? What did you like least?
This was a typical spy thriller. I was hoping for more details about the setting, but was disappointed to find that the setting itself was minimally a part of the story.
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- Julie Jones
- 02-08-17
Outstanding book
Kanon evokes the atmosphere of immediately post-war (II) Istanbul beautifully in this most interesting thriller. The narrator, Jefferson Mays, is excellent as well and pronounces the many Turkish names, things and places with great ease.
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