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Millennium People
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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The explosive J. G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, now continues with his first novel to be published in America in a full decade. "Wonderfully warped, darkly comic" (The Economist), Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife. Infiltrating a shadowy protest group responsible for her death, David finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group's leader, who hopes to incite a violent rebellion against the government by his fanatical adherents, the spiritually and financially impoverished members of Britain's white middle class. A shockingly plausible and extremely unsettling vision of society in collapse, Millennium People "dissects the perverse psychology that links terrorists with their innocent victims" (New Statesman).
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Police detective Ali Barba receives an urgent letter from her estranged friend Cate. Startled by the letter's alarming tone and eager to atone for egregious past actions, Ali meets Cate at their high-school class reunion. The obviously pregnant Cate begs Ali to stop those who are trying to take her baby. But the plot takes a bizarre twist when a careening car kills Cate - and Ali discovers the truth about Cate's pregnancy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An ok read
- By Elgee on 02-11-08
By: Michael Robotham
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Tarantula
- A John Milton Short Story
- By: Mark Dawson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 778
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 701
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Milton tries to exit British intelligence
- By Wayne on 06-03-16
By: Mark Dawson
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The Mark of the Assassin
- Michael Osbourne, Book 1
- By: Daniel Silva
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,590
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,080
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,078
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny Portentous Prophecy
- By Snoodely on 10-27-13
By: Daniel Silva
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roger Rees
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 935
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 592
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Story4 out of 5 stars 595
Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too close to the truth?
- By carl801 on 11-24-07
By: Robert Harris
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Standing by the Wall
- The Collected Slough House Novellas
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Please
- By Katy on 01-27-23
By: Mick Herron
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- A Novel
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Gideon Emery
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4 out of 5 stars 150
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story Teller
- By Dorothy on 09-07-14
By: William Boyd
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Wormwood
- By: Mark Dawson
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
1969. Eloise Shepherd, one of MI6's brightest rising stars, is working undercover in Soviet Russia as Magdalina Novikova. Her mission is to persuade nuclear physicist Stanislav Kalashnik to defect and bring his knowledge of Russian weapons back to the UK. On the verge of success, the operation fails suddenly and spectacularly. Seventeen years later, Kalashnik is Chief Engineer at the power plant near Pripyat known as Chernobyl. His concerns for the safety of the plant are growing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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okay
- By ALICIA on 05-13-22
By: Mark Dawson
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Hornet Flight
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,078
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,128
It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding Spy Novel
- By C. McCoy on 03-13-05
By: Ken Follett
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- By: Phil Hogan
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4 out of 5 stars 114
You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invisible Man
- By Janice on 02-05-15
By: Phil Hogan
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Stormbreaker
- The First Alex Rider Adventure
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 983
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 800
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 795
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain's top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Okay action story held up by an great narrator
- By Mary Fan on 08-13-13
By: Anthony Horowitz
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White Noise
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 854
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 751
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Story4 out of 5 stars 749
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- By RI in Canada on 10-15-16
By: Don DeLillo
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The Dervish House
- By: Ian McDonald
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4 out of 5 stars 161
It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone, it seems, is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House; the great, ancient, paradoxical city of Istanbul, divided like a human brain, in the great, ancient, equally paradoxical nation of Turkey. The year is 2027....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen, but then read
- By Karen on 09-18-11
By: Ian McDonald
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2113
- Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
- By: John McFetridge - editor, Kevin J. Anderson - editor
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, best-selling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm a RUSH fan, but ...no..not this book
- By NBP on 07-15-17
By: John McFetridge - editor, and others
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The Firemaker
- By: Peter May
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 180
A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly.
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1 out of 5 stars
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worst book I've listened to this year
- By I Wonder on 08-03-19
By: Peter May
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- melanie
- 04-10-13
Never got good.
I kept waiting for the story line to get interesting, but it never happened. The monotone, unimaginative narration didn't help.
I've enjoyed reading some of Ballard's other stories, but not this one. I would try some of his other books, but not with this narrator.
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- Darwin8u
- 02-06-20
A vicious boredom ruled the world
"He was trying to find meaning in the most meaningless times, the first of new kind of desperate man who refuses to bow before the arrogance of existence and the tyranny of space-time."
- J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
"A vicious boredom ruled the world, for the first time in human history, interrupted by meaningless acts of violence."
- J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
I read this Ballard novel amazed at how accurately he captures the now. It has been said by others before, but he really is our PKD. He captures, in this book, random shootings, Brexit, and Trump. He captures perfectly the rebellion of the middle-class. I have to let this book settle in me. I might be a bit too enthusiastic in this moment. But God this novel was grand. One of my top 5 Ballard novels, and the man can hardly write a bad novel.
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