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- By: Gerold Frank, James D. Horan, Joseph Eckberg
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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The USS Seawolf was one of the greatest submarine raiders of all time. Having narrowly avoided the attack on Pearl Harbor the Seawolf set out for the seas of the Pacific to wreak havoc on Japanese shipping. Joseph Melvin Eckberg was on the Seawolf from her maiden voyage and remained with her until January 1943. As chief radioman he was instrumental in assisting Captain Frederick Warder to find and destroy enemy targets. From the claustrophobia of being trapped under water and the overwhelming fear of depth charges to the joys of aiding the war-effort and the camaraderie on the ship.
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Unfortunately not very good
- By Jason on 03-29-18
By: Gerold Frank, and others
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The Unlikely Spy
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
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“In wartime,” Winston Churchill wrote, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” For Britain’s counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable - a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent.
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The Unlikely Spy
- By Margaret on 12-14-09
By: Daniel Silva
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To the Stars
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Robert Caso, Jim Meskimen, R.F. Daley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a craft bound for the stars...on a journey at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars.
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To the Stars
- By John on 12-01-04
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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When Eight Bells Toll
- By: Alistair MacLean
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all-time classic. Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have bought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive. The place is the focal point of many mysterious disappearances. Even the unimaginative Highland Police Sergeant seems to be acting a part. But why?
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My Favorite Thriller Writer
- By Carl on 09-27-17
By: Alistair MacLean
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Daughters of Eden
- By: Charlotte Bingham
- Narrated by: Kim Hicks
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Daughters of Eden focuses on the lives and fortunes of four very different young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her father, but determined to prove herself; and man-mad Lily, who turns out to be the bravest of them all. That all of them are chosen to work undercover for the espionage unit at Eden Park is a surprise, not least to them.
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An amazing book everyone should read.
- By XX on 09-11-05
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Great story, great reader
- By Gavin Scott on 07-14-11
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Another world another time.
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Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland, their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there.
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Nevil, Were You Called To Dinner?
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Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost. The title, No Highway, is taken from the poem "The Wanderer" by John Masefield, which Shute quotes at the start of the book.
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Fine writing keeps this story fresh
- By Doug on 12-10-12
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Marazan
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After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and Stenning’s determination to help leads him into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder. Marazan was Nevil Shute’s first published novel, and in his autobiography, Slide Rule, he recalls writing the book twice over before rewriting large portions a third time.
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Not my favorite Shute.
- By Mike Hart on 03-11-24
By: Nevil Shute
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Pied Piper
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John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France, but during his stay the Nazis invade. Howard must try to escape back to England with the two small children of some friends who are forced to stay behind in order to help the Allied war effort. As the conflict grows closer, the roads become impassable and Howard also comes across five more children who need his help. He ends up leading this motley group of youngsters through the French countryside, constantly beset by danger yet heroically protecting his charges.
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One of My All Time Favorires
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Great story, great reader
- By Gavin Scott on 07-14-11
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When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes, leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, endeavours to fly a doctor in to help but this proves more difficult than he imagined.
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Another world another time.
- By Linda on 02-08-13
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Nevil, Were You Called To Dinner?
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Fine writing keeps this story fresh
- By Doug on 12-10-12
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After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and Stenning’s determination to help leads him into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder. Marazan was Nevil Shute’s first published novel, and in his autobiography, Slide Rule, he recalls writing the book twice over before rewriting large portions a third time.
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Not my favorite Shute.
- By Mike Hart on 03-11-24
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One of My All Time Favorires
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A Touching Tale
- By Jim In Texas! on 05-05-12
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Commander Malcolm Stevenson, a rich middle-aged man, finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess. His involvement with Mollie "Sixpence" Gordon will lead to the exposure of a conspiracy to sabotage the British General Election, but Stevenson’s dogged pursuit of the criminals will throw his life and the lives of those he cares about into grave danger.
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Great story telling, implausible plot
- By Robert Bliss on 10-27-16
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John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time to search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I. accused of attempted rape. Along the way, Turner learns about forgiveness, tolerance, and second chances, and overcomes his fear of death.
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Dated? Not this one.
- By Jacqueline Curbishley on 04-01-13
By: Nevil Shute
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Ruined City
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Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town, he radically changes his own.
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Another Uplifting Shute Novel
- By Bobshoe on 02-14-16
By: Nevil Shute
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What Happened to the Corbetts?
- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: Terry Wilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they struggle to get to safety.
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This story lingers
- By Wendy on 04-27-21
By: Nevil Shute
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So Disdained
- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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On a rain-swept night on the Sussex Downs in the uneasy peace between the wars, Peter Moran stopped his car to give a lift to a man. His unexpected passenger turned out to be an old wartime comrade, a pilot who had just crash-landed a high-speed French bomber. Trapped between two loyalties, enmeshed in a tangled skein of treason, Moran was about to be swept into a desperate manhunt across Europe...
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Fascists to the rescue!
- By EB on 12-24-16
By: Nevil Shute
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In the Wet
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It is the rainy season; a drunk and delirious old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world…
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not Shute's best, but still worth reading
- By Bond James Bond on 08-13-15
By: Nevil Shute
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Most Secret
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It is the Second World War and France has fallen. In their trusty fishing boat, Genevieve, armed with only a flame-thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army. This is classic Shute: a thrilling adventure about the heroism of ordinary men that will keep you on the edge of your seat, cheering them on.
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Censored for 3 years
- By Anniebligh on 02-05-13
By: Nevil Shute
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The Far Country
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A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback, where she quickly falls in love - both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.
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Great Story!
- By BikeMeister on 02-11-13
By: Nevil Shute
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Beyond the Black Stump
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When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil.
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Davina Porter is a wonderful narrator
- By Brian PDX on 07-26-14
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Slide Rule
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- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a best-selling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer, working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and ‘30s. The inspiration for many of the themes and concerns of Shute's novels can be identified in this enjoyable and enlightening memoir.
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I love Shute's novels but found this to be dull.
- By John on 12-12-13
By: Nevil Shute
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Ordeal
- By: Nevil Shute
- Narrated by: Ian Stuart
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Life in the Corbett family turned upside down when the first German bombs struck their well-ordered street. But life goes on through fire and destruction, life and love rising from the rubble of London and “the Blitz.”
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Absorbing!
- By Eileen on 02-12-12
By: Nevil Shute
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- Chromo Domo
- 12-26-16
A charming love story
I liked this story for its simple charm and ships and planes and British mores and language. It is a well-paced yarn with humor, romance, adventure and glimpses of a society that had strengths and depth to persevere in very challenging times. Enjoy
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- Dianne
- 08-26-14
Page turning
Chris Rowe's narration is superb and the story is captivating as the mystery unravels. The plot gradually moves toward a crescendo of resolution and the ending is a brain stretcher.
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- J B
- 01-29-24
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I en joy listening to books about places i know. I lived in these areas I. the early u0s.
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- david brown
- 12-17-22
Great story
Landfall is a compelling story written by a master. The characters are vivid and with complex motives. The mix of drama, romance, and redemption.
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- Abraham
- 04-30-22
A story of love, triumph and fortitude.
This is a beautiful story of young people wanting to be the best that they can be and fighting love amongst each other. It is a story of Justice. the narrator was great with his British accent I couldn't stop listening to it. I finish this book in less than a week. You won't be disappointed.
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- Jim Crowhurst
- 08-28-21
Great Story Of God's Justice
Nevil Shutes spins another great tale. The story tells of God's justice even during time of war.
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- Bond James Bond
- 11-02-20
feel good ending
I've noticed that a lot of Shute's books (except for On The Beach) have a feel good ending. They're all good solid 4 star stories, and all have good narrators.
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- Kerr506
- 05-01-19
Perfect Listen for a Road Trip
I was happy to find this audible version so we listened to this for a road trip. It's not easy to find books my husband and I both enjoy. Nevil Shute so often does the trick and this is one we both really liked. The less you know about the plot the better. Suffice it to say that Nevil Shute loves airplanes and submarines and all sorts of boats. And gadgets. So this is a theme along with "boy meets girl".
It's not so much the story as the way Nevil Shute tells the story. Things unfold very carefully and in a way that is just so well written. I also just loved the narrator, Chris Rowe.
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- Robert Bliss
- 10-27-16
You can figure out the mystery pretty quickly
What made the experience of listening to Landfall the most enjoyable?
Shute's skill bringing out characters and making them seem real.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Unfortunately, the whole story. It is a mystery but what happened is obvious very early on. That makes the main characters seem amazingly dense, which is not the author's intention. Plots are not always Shute's strong suit, though some books such as Far Country, are great stories.
What about Chris Rowe’s performance did you like?
It was fine.
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- Mike Kelly
- 08-13-16
One of his best!
I have close to fifteen of Nevil Shutes Audible books. 'I would put 'Landfall' easily in my five fav list. If you're interested in WWII from a British perspective, Shutes work is a must. If I could give the reader, Chris Rowe, more than five stars I would. He's really good at his craft!
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