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Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King, in the controversial No 1 bestselling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in a new cover.
After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times No 1 bestseller that became a hugely successful BBC TV series, with Ian Richardson resuming his award-winning role as Francis Urquhart.
Its highly controversial and uncannily topical storyline - in which the role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King - coincided with a huge increase in public interest in the future of the Royal Family following a series of Royal scandals.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel - set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s - about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Story engaging. Narrator not so much.
- De Anne M. Kelley en 09-15-22
De: Alexandra Joel
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 141
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
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The Good Liar
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Searle
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hope the movie is better than the book?
- De S. Smith en 10-17-19
De: Nicholas Searle
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The Collaborator
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
It is 1944 in Budapest, and the Germans have invaded. Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences.... It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ruined by the reader
- De Hayworth en 02-24-20
De: Diane Armstrong
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Topaz
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spy thriller in disguise
- De Shmuel M en 04-14-19
De: Leon Uris
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each, physical violence, racial animosity, the coercion of the weak by the strong all play their part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty, and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is one to get
- De Jeremy en 10-28-14
De: Paul Scott
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- De: Charles Cumming
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 88
Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend this little gem
- De Chou Young en 02-14-08
De: Charles Cumming
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Finale
- A Novel of the Reagan Years
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times - Ronald Reagan. Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gore Vidal for the 21st Century
- De philip en 10-31-15
De: Thomas Mallon
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The Fountainhead
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 32 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,705
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,398
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,422
One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, a genius; Gail Wynand, a newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire; and Dominique Francon, a devastating beauty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Fountainhead
- De Zachary en 06-04-10
De: Ayn Rand
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Fifteen Postcards
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Book 1
- De: Kirsten McKenzie
- Narrado por: Tracey Llewelyn
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 360
Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The raping of Historical artifacts for sale
- De M Thuy Langsea en 05-20-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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Watergate
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 177
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated - uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs - it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal’s greatest mysteries - who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape? - and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen
- De Tad Davis en 03-29-12
De: Thomas Mallon
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The Ventriloquists
- A Novel
- De: E. R. Ramzipoor
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 20 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: Turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much love story for me
- De Melissa en 01-04-21
De: E. R. Ramzipoor
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The Submission
- A Novel
- De: Amy Waldman
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the 9/11 widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some books were meant to be read...
- De Barbara en 02-24-12
De: Amy Waldman
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A Perfect Spy
- A Novel
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: Michael Jayston
- Duración: 20 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,042
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,034
Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend - and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father's death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus? In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remembrances of loyalties past
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-13
De: John le Carré
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In the Absence of Miracles
- De: Michael J. Malone
- Narrado por: Angus King
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she’s unlikely to be able to live independently again. With no other option than to sell the family home, John sets about packing up everything in the house. In sifting through the detritus of his family’s past he’s forced to revisit, and revise his childhood. For in a box, in the attic, he finds undeniable truth that he had a brother who disappeared when he himself was only a toddler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Book
- De Amazon Customer en 03-16-21
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The Tourist
- A Novel
- De: Olen Steinhauer
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,723
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,142
In the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this contemporary international thriller follows Milo Weaver as he is drawn into a conspiracy that links riots in the Sudan, an assassin committing suicide, and an old friend who's been accused of selling secrets to the Chinese. Once the CIA and Homeland Security are after him, the only way for him to survive is to return, headfirst, into Tourism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book not for dummies
- De Tim en 03-23-09
De: Olen Steinhauer