A Deniable Death

By: Gerald Seymour

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. Space the movements of your team. Use the shadows.

Danny "Badger" Baxter has a talent for surveillance. He's always followed the rules. Until now, they've kept him alive.

But now, Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Northern Irish Republicans in muddy Ulster fields, or Islamic extremists on rain swept Yorkshire moors. MI6 has a plan to assassinate the Engineer - a brilliant maker of improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that account for 80 percent of Allied casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The spooks know he's planning to leave his home in Iran. They just need to find out when and where he's traveling.

So Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, burdened with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. If things go wrong, as far as Her Majesty's government is concerned, his part in the plot is completely deniable.

©2011 Gerald Seymour (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Poor direction

The story is terrific! The reader's voice and reading was fine, but every time the story switched from one person to the next there was no break so it was hard to tell that we had just moved to someone else. The reader did not pause at what I'm sure were breaks in the text, just reading on as if it were just the next sentence or paragraph. I would find myself lost and having to rewind often. Chapter breaks were there; other breaks in the text within chapters were needed as well. Listen to this book anyway - it's totally worth a credit!

Performance renders a good story a poor one

Would you try another book from Gerald Seymour and/or Ralph Cosham?

Gerald Seymour writes a good narrative about British operatives in foreign lands.

What didn’t you like about Ralph Cosham’s performance?

The performance made this book "unlistenable" for me. In one word, it was monotone. There was little if any change in inflection or pace. It was like reading text without paragraphs, sentences, capitalization, or punctuation.

Any additional comments?

Listen carefully to the performance when considering this book. Imagine hours of the same.

BORING

Any additional comments?

This is the most bboring book mI have read or lisyened to in several years.