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Here Comes Charlie M
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Series: Charlie Muffin, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Stevon
- 12-10-15
good second book in the series
This is the second book in the Charlie Muffin spy novel series, a fairly short book like the first one. In the initial story in the series, Charlie, who works for British Intelligence, is put in charge of a Russian defection where Charlie's bosses plan on him being the fall guy and being killed in the process. But Charlie is the old pro that no one suspects how good he reall is. He foils the plan and goes on the lam. His crooked, evil now ex-bosses in this book, work to lure Charlie back to England so they can finish the job. Charlie knows what they are trying to do and works extra hard to stay one step ahead with his own ideas on how to turn the tables in his favor.
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- Michelle
- 06-26-19
Here Comes Charlie M
The only reason I listened to this boring and lame story, was the brilliant narration of Napoleon Ryan. He is very talented and can make a bland story worth listening to.
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- J. M. Craig
- 07-03-19
Second Try - shouldn’t have bothered
Thought i’d Give Charlie a second try - sorry to say worse than the first. Totally transparent and predictable. The endless dialogue about his wife’s angst and paranoia is so dragged out that one can only believe that it is there to pad out a very weak storyline. The reviewer who gave him the distinction of a second John Le Carre should be prosecuted under the trade description act - couldn’t even hold a candle. At best could only be described as very run of the mill. One redeeming fact is that as his wife was shot in this novel readers will be spared the diatribes in later novels.
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- Jeffrey Slater
- 03-28-17
More predictable
...than the first book was. Nonetheless it has its moments and is worth listening to.