The Moroccan Girl

A Novel

De: Charles Cumming

Narrado por: Charlie Anson

"Another Charles Cumming triumph.” (Jason Matthews, best-selling author of The Kremlin's Candidate)

In this gripping contemporary thriller, a successful spy novelist is drawn into a real-life espionage plot when he’s ordered to find a mysterious fugitive on the alluring but deadly streets of Morocco.

Renowned author Kit Carradine is approached by an MI6 officer with a seemingly straightforward assignment: to track down a mysterious woman hiding somewhere in the exotic, perilous city of Marrakesh. But when Carradine learns the woman is a dangerous fugitive with ties to international terrorism, the glamour of being a spy is soon tainted by fear and betrayal.

Lara Bartok is a leading figure in Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement whose brutal attacks on prominent right-wing public figures have spread hatred and violence across the world. Her disappearance ignites a race between warring intelligence services desperate to find her - at any cost. But as Carradine edges closer to the truth, he finds himself drawn to this brilliant, beautiful, and profoundly complex woman.

Caught between increasingly dangerous forces who want Bartok dead, Carradine soon faces an awful choice: to abandon Lara to her fate or to risk everything trying to save her.

More praise for The Moroccan Girl:

“Charles Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel.” (Ben Macintyre, best-selling author of A Spy Among Friends)

"Narrator Dan Bittner is back...bringing his full array of fantastic character voices...Bittner excels at combining drama and comedy in just the right proportions to make this audiobook a thoroughly enjoyable ride." (AudioFile Magazine)

©2019 Charles Cumming (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

great book, great narrator

this book is very good, and the narrator is excellent. i dont like the audible versions of Cumming's other books with a different narrator as much as this one. i hope this turns into a series of books with the same narrator.

Good Cumming.

Good story, excellent narrator!! I’ve read most of Cumming’s books, and this is better than most. Especially enjoyed the performance— tone and approach is exactly how I’d expect a reluctant British spy to sound. Hoping to hear more from Kit Carradine.

Another fun ride from Cumming

This is a step away from the Le Carre type spy-centered story and toward the somewhat more fantastical "an everyman gets caught up in a complicated spy-related mess" plot. That said, it's a good ride, and if you like Cumming's other work, you'll certainly enjoy this. Not my favorite, but still strongly recommended. (Morocco is a setting for much of the story, and where "the girl" is found, but the principal characters are not Moroccans. This seems to be a complaint from some who do not like the book.) I think it's fair to say that the protagonist is the character best fleshed out and some of the others are a bit shallow, but I think this is partly a device to ensure that we are not entirely sure which side they are on.

The reader's performance is excellent. He does well with "voices" but doesn't go overboard about it.

There are a few who complain about "politics" in this book. I can only say that anyone offended by the (minimal) politics in here seem pretty thin skinned to me. At the beginning "the bad guys" are a left leaning group attacking (I will use the term loosely to minimize spoilers) well known loudmouth conservatives. No one exactly looks good. By the end, the bad guys are still pretty much bad guys, though unsurprisingly one of the main ones has more complex motives. It's a spy story.... At the very end, a few very few not-too-complimentary allusions are made (without naming names or being too specific) to the Trump administration. It's pretty light stuff and hardly a political screed. Honestly, my suggestion if you are that sensitive to a bit of political commentary in a novel is that you find a genre other than espionage. :-)

Pedestrian writing, formulaic plot.

Good narration of very average writing. It’s all plot without any pretense of character development, but sadly the plot isn’t that great. The first person narrator (in the story, not the reader of the audiobook) makes assumptions with certainty but without much credibility. And amazingly, they’re always correct.

Already a classic...

One of the great modern spy novels, this story takes seemingly predictable events and transforms them into a riveting event. From beginning to end, this was thoroughly enjoyable.