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Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it’s threatened that he’ll be beheaded live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem him.
Is the victim who he first appears to be? And what’s the kidnappers’ connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda….
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- By J.Hamp on 02-09-21
By: Belinda Bauer
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Dr Yes
- By: Colin Bateman
- Narrated by: Stephen Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The hilarious new Mystery Man crime caper from the master of menace and mirth. Beauty is in the eye of the be header. The wife of crime writer Augustine Wogan disappeared shortly after entering the exclusive clinic of the mysterious Dr Yes, plastic surgeon extraordinaire. As fatherhood approaches, the Small Bookseller with No Name is persuaded to investigate. He soon finds himself up to his neck in murder, make-up and madness - and face to face with the most gruesome serial killer since the last one.
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Fun diversion from the usual fair
- By Dennis on 11-09-12
By: Colin Bateman
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- A Novel
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Gideon Emery
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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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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Amazing Story Teller
- By Dorothy on 09-07-14
By: William Boyd
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- By: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- By Sean on 03-05-16
By: Cory Doctorow, and others
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Give Me the Child
- By: Mel McGrath
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Dr Cat Lupo aches for another child despite the psychosis which marked her first pregnancy. So when Ruby Winter, a small girl in need of help, arrives in the middle of the night, it seems like fate. But as the events behind Ruby's arrival emerge - her mother's death, her connection to Cat - Cat questions whether her decision to help Ruby has put her own daughter at risk.
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Give Me the Child will give you a heck of a read!
- By Cassandra on 08-04-17
By: Mel McGrath
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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Stunning debut
- By Mystery Maven on 11-18-16
By: Helen Callaghan
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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
- By: Chris Ewan
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living. To supplement his income - and keep his hand in - Charlie has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission. When a mysterious American offers Charlie 20,000 euros to steal two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; the job seems too good to be true, and of course, it is. He soon finds the American beaten nearly to death, while the third figurine has disappeared.
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A delightful surprise!
- By adrienne on 10-02-13
By: Chris Ewan
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The Wicked Girls
- By: Alex Marwood
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago.
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I didn't want to like these girls...
- By Lesley on 08-30-13
By: Alex Marwood
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Halting State
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
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2 Smart Books Well Worth the Listen - Great Reader
- By C. Hartmann on 01-08-12
By: Charles Stross
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roger Rees
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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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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Too close to the truth?
- By carl801 on 11-24-07
By: Robert Harris
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- Earnest
- 01-28-14
Intelligent, plausible and restrained.
What did you love best about Slow Horses?
Perhaps it is the combination of an interesting plot development without " boy's own" shenanigans. Just as there is an audience for the representations of mega brutality and endless car chase-like scenes, there is also an audience for intelligent, persuasive story with talented, well written character development. This novel excels in the latter category. There is no sidestepping of a truth..it is quietly alluded to and left to a listener's intelligence.
What did you like best about this story?
The lack of over explanation and mindless minutiae. Instead of limiting the listener's imagination, the writer encourages the listener to imagine their own version. This very clever enabling works magnificently to draw a person into the story's machinery.
What about Sean Barrett’s performance did you like?
Ah Sean. One never tires of listening to his vocal range and restrained but emotive characterisations. But why didn't you try " doing" Joanna Lumley's voice Mr Barrett? I know. Because this actor is an exemplar when it comes to doing justice to any audiobook.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Have to admit I was hooked in when the rag tag collection of " losers" galvanise themselves into action. It is a well known device, I know, but somehow it felt better written than many others we have seen or read.even if an IT " geek" is once again the background star of the event. Here is an idea for a novel. A handsome, urbane, well dressed IT specialist, with loads of real friends, teaches everyone in the office how to hack into...whatever...and goes home to an amazing life leaving the others to tap away on their computers and save the situation. Never seen that character.
Any additional comments?
Perhaps this story has been told before. Misfits making good is not an original idea. Nor is the idea that " those higher up" made it there through no skill of their own and on the shoulders of others. What makes this novel for me is the clean, concise writing.
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- Anne
- 08-22-17
* MARVELLOUS HUMOUR * * VERY ENJOYABLE *
Yes, it takes a while to get going, but that's because we are being introduced to the characters. This is not a boring introduction to them because of the subtle humour. Keep with it, as the others say. Great story.
I would say that the humour is brought out by the clever Sean Barrett. My favourite, favourite narrator. If someone else had read it, they may not have given due justice to the humour Mick Herron was intending.
I will definitely follow this up with the next in the Slough House series. I'm on to it right now.
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- David
- 06-10-23
Most Enjoyable
Great interesting novel and the narrator was very good to listen to.
Highly recommend for John Le Carre fans or spy thrillers
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-12-16
a pleasure to listen to
First work of Mick Herron I have found. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Entertainingly written and Sean Barret's performance was spot on.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-24-18
Great spy thriller!
A clever, well plotted story with wonderful comlicated filling drawn characters. If you are fond of British spy thrillers gave this book a try.
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- Monique
- 08-19-24
Excellent narration
Excellent narration, Sean Barrett is on the money with his Jackson Lamb voice! Having recently discovered Mick Herron’s books, he’s the author and subject matter I’ve been long looking for. Looking forward to my next novel.
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- The Dark Side
- 08-28-11
great procedural novel
slow horses was a no brainer as far as interesting stories go - who can resist the underdog. I usually go to sleep with english narrators, but this one kept me listening without a break.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-31-19
Slough House series
I have now listened to 5 of the books in this series. I have thouroughly enjoyed them all. The stories are griping the twists interesting and well executed and the narration is superb.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-25-17
Reject spies win the day
Wonderfully written and beautifully performed. A clever, gripping and very funny story of sidelined spies.
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- Cookiej
- 08-17-16
Slow Horses = Slow Story
I read the reviews recommending this series, forewarned that it was slow at first. Well, it was thoroughly slow....just kept plodding along. I found it difficult to root for any of the characters. I decided not to continue the series.
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