The Cobra

De: Frederick Forsyth

Narrado por: Jonathan Davis

An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense.

Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today's headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again.

What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.

The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...

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Praise for Frederick Forsyth

“Forsyth is truly the world’s reigning master of suspense”—Los Angeles Times

“When it comes to espionage, international intrigue, and suspense, Frederick Forsyth is a master.”—The Washington Post Book World

Good Book, Movie Material.

Good story line that actually fits today's society and around the world. This would make a good movie.

Great Story - Wierd Narration

This is a unique "what if?" concept story, and should have been intriguing, but the narrator sounded as if his goal was to calm down an excitable audience. High seas hijinks, drug lord double cross and high political intrigue was delivered with the enthusiasm of a technical conference white paper. I recommend that you READ the story rather than listen to this rendering.

Hmmm, not his best

I've read just about everything Frederick Forsyth has done. He has become rather predictable down the years. Nowadays, he spends a little too much time praising the extraordinary skills of the military. I'm sure they are, but they are not gods and the occasional flub would be better for the fiction.

His druggies are very bad, as no doubt they are, but I suspect they would not fall over quite so fast in real life as Freddie makes 'em go down.

As usual, his work requires a close listen, there is the usual attention to detail and that is something I do like. I suspect his sources were rather better in the past than they are nowadays.

The split-strike ending is downright peculiar, and while he does usually wrap a surprise up, I just got the feeling that this ending was rather constructed to fit his usual patterns.

The readers pronunciation of some Scottish terms was off here and there, but it was a perfectly competent read. Just not Freddie's best.


brendan

Cheesy ending. Lots of over done narration on small specifics.

The ending. Made sense, but went against the grain of the character. Overall a good read, really good narration.

Enjoyed the story but not the narrator

I listen to many audio books but this narrator and his oddly placed pauses took away from this story