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Assassin's Creed: Gold
- An Audible Original Drama
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, John Chancer, Ray Fearon, Anthony Head, Tamara Lawrance, Gemma Lawrence, Danny Wallace
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Please note: This title contains explicit language
Assassin’s Creed: Gold is a stand-alone tale from the Assassin's Creed universe in which we meet Aliyah Khan, a card shark and hustler who’s been dealt a rough hand in life. Surviving through her smarts and street scams, Aliyah struggles to get by until she loses big time to a mysterious older man, Gavin Banks. Her only option to repay Banks is to become an Assassin. During her training, Banks tells Aliyah of the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars, imploring her to help him decode a secret message inscribed on an illegal form of currency during the Great Recoinage of 1696.
With a cast of characters beloved the world over by fans of the franchise, Assassin’s Creed: Gold tells a gripping tale of imminent economic collapse, featuring appearances from Warden of the Royal Mint, Isaac Newton, con artist and counterfeiter William Chaloner, blind assassin Omar Khaled and assassin trainer Rose Galloway. Equal parts adrenaline-fueled and thought-provoking, Assassin’s Creed: Gold draws a compelling parallel with the financial chaos of Isaac Newton’s 17th-century Britain and the economic uncertainty of our more recent history.
Audible’s new full-cast drama will realise the clash of the Assassins and Templars as a gripping audio thriller with lead performances from Riz Ahmed (Emmy winner, Golden Globe nominee, The Night Of, Rogue One, Four Lions), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, Little Britain), Danny Wallace (BAFTA Games Award winner, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed III) and Tamara Lawrance (Corvidae, On Chesil Beach).
Performed by: Riz Ahmed, Laura Aikman, Rachel Atkins, Brian Bowles, Andrew Branch, John Chancer, Lily Donovan, Rupert Fairley, Ray Fearon, Owen Findlay, Jason Forbes, Nicholas Goh, Anthony Head, David John, Jim Johnson, Will Kelly, Tamara Lawrance, John Last, Gemma Lawrence, Nicholas le Prevost, Simon Lipson, Hayward Morse, Paul Panting, Laila Payne, Nigel Pilkington, Joseph Radcliffe, David Rintoul, Anne Rosenfeld, Jennifer Saayeng, Gyuri Sarossy, Danny Wallace and Daniel Weyman.
Meet the key characters
Born to a very poor single mother in the Brixton area of London, Aliyah has had to hustle her entire life to get ahead. She’s extremely sharp and intelligent, but quite often the chip on her shoulder about her upbringing will stop her from succeeding. Her upbringing and abandonment at the hands of her father has led her not to trust others.
One of history’s greatest thinkers, now in his 50s, Newton - brilliant, eccentric and no people skills - becomes obsessed with finding and stopping Chaloner. After embarking on this quest he realises he’s going to have to act as more than an academic and get his hands dirty. It’s a personal challenge to Newton, and his obsessive personality won’t allow him to back down.
The lead of our 1696 story, Omar was raised the blind son of a butler in London. Recruited by the Assassins at 12, he’s done a great deal that’s scarred him leading him to help society through non-violent means. But when he sees the only way to take down the great counterfeiter is by fighting violence with violence, he’s pulled back into his old ways.
Shaun is a history expert and provides research and historical context to his fellow characters in Assassin's Creed: Gold - both verbally and through his entries in the Animus database. Shaun is rather sarcastic and condescending towards his colleagues, having little patience for small talk.
Immerse yourself in Assassin's Creed: Gold
- In 1696, Rose Galloway & Omar Khaled secretly meet in a Church Crypt
- In 2019, Aliyah is distressed in the Animus whilst Gavin & My'Shell look on.
- Aliyah describes how she was introduced to poker, before we return to the interrogation room in Newgate Jail in 1696.
- It’s 2019, and Gavin, Aliyah and My'Shell are at the London Docks in a Shipping container.
About the author
Anthony Del Col is a bestselling writer of comics, audio dramas, television and stage. He created Audible’s thriller Unheard: The Story of Anna Winslow which debuted at #1 in the U.S. and U.K. in late-2017. He is the co-creator of the award-winning comic book series Kill Shakespeare which has been adapted as a stage show, audio drama, table-top game and is currently in development for TV, as well as the writer of comics including Luke Cage: Everyman, Assassin's Creed and controversial WWII graphic novel Son of Hitler.
Though a proud Canadian, Del Col lives in New York with wife Lisa and son Dashiell.
Riz Ahmed stars as Omar Khalid
Emmy award winner Riz Ahmed is a critically acclaimed actor, writer, creator, producer, musician, director and activist. He became one of Hollywood’s most sought after artists following the explosive success of HBO’s The Night Of, written and created by the legendary Steven Zaillan for which he won an Emmy Award, and was Golden Globe and SAG nominated. He has starred in successful feature films including Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers and most-recently Sony/Marvel’s Venom. He first garnered industry attention in festival favourites Four Lions and Nightcrawler.
John Chancer stars as Gavin Banks
John Chancer has narrated audio dramas including Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Around the World in 80 Days and Murder on the Orient Express. He has provided his voice for over 100 audiobooks and dozens of video games, radio dramas and cartoons. Visually, he has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including Casino Royale, The One and Only Ivan, Spooks, Episodes and Top Coppers. He also has a long association with theatre all over the UK and in the USA.
Ray Fearon stars as Fahad Kahn
After graduating from drama school, Ray garnered a reputation as a stage actor with the RSC and in the West End, becoming the first black actor to play Othello on an RSC stage in over 40 years and later becoming an RSC Associate Artist. His other notable theatre credits include playing Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar (RSC), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (RSC) directed by Michael Attenborough, the title role in Pericles (RSC), Macbeth at Manchester Festival, The Soldier’s Fortune at the Young Vic, and Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at the National Theatre. Ray’s film credits include the blockbuster Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone, Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet and starring in Oskar Roehlar’s Lulu and Jimmi. His extensive television credits include BBC One’s Silk, Waking the Dead and Death In Paradise and ITV1’s Prime Suspect.
Anthony Head stars as Isaac Newton
English actor Anthony Head graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, (a family thing - his mother and his brother both acted, and now, so do his daughters.) You may recognise him from his role as Giles, the librarian/Watcher across seven series of late-90’s hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or even as Uther from Merlin, or the P.M in Little Britain. In addition to performances across theatre (including The Rocky Horror Show, Rope, Otherwise Engaged, and Love In Idleness), TV (Manchild, Vanity Fair, and The Stranger), film (The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and A Street Cat Named Bob). Anthony is also a musician.
Tamara Lawrance stars as Aliyah Khan
Known internationally for her work on stage, particularly in several award-winning plays at London’s National Theatre, on television- following parts in Undercover (2016) and King Charles III (2017) - Tamara was critically lauded in The Long Song (2018), playing the lead role of Miss July in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel. She plays the lead in feature film Corvidae, and is in Steve McQueen’s new BBC TV Series.Recently named a Screen International “Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018”, WhatsOnStage named her one of “10 theatre faces to look out for” and The Guardian listed her in “20 talents set to take 2017 by storm”.
Gemma Lawrence stars as Rose Galloway
Gemma Lawrence is known for her work across film, TV and theatre, whose credits include The National Theatre, Young Vic and Shakespeare's Globe. Gemma has graced our screens opposite Idris Elba in Luther, in Shakespeare & Hathaway and Holby City as well as many much loved dramas across the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.
Danny Wallace stars as Shaun Hastings
He’s a multi-award-winning television and radio presenter, an internationally-bestselling author of 17 books, a BAFTA-winning voiceover artist, and Jim Carrey played him in a film.On TV, he’s hosted Saturday night shows on BBC1 like Test the Nation and written and presented documentaries like Horizon, plus shows on Radio 2, Radio 4, 6Music, Absolute, plus the triple Sony Award-winning XFM Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace. He’s acted in six Assassin’s Creed games.His writing career includes Sunday Times-bestsellers Awkward Situations for Men and Yes Man, the multi-award-winning children’s series, Hamish and the WorldStoppers and work for TIME, The Guardian, and ShortList magazine.
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- Adam Clegg
- 29-02-20
Great Assassin's Creed story
loved this story, I dropped one star as I felt the ambient noises were a bit distracting (in the beginning at least). The characters were well written too...well worth a listen.
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- Adam P.
- 30-09-20
A lot to love for Assassin's Creed fans!
Lots of worthwhile fanservice with music and sound effects from the games. Great story/characters.
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- Numinous
- 07-03-20
very engaging
awesome listened to the whole thing great characters could have done with a little bit more on the secondary charter but great story
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- Cathal Wilson
- 07-03-20
Excellent production, Needs narrator for 100%
First introduction to the audiobook series after enjoying Almost all of the video games(side scrollers excluded, as of spring 2020). I thoroughly enjoyed this production but unlike similar titles (graphic audio productions), it was just shy of fully immersive. With sound effects and occasional background music to enhance the experience; this is a title I highly recommend to those who've enjoyed the videogames' storylines, perhaps especially to those only familiar with the movie. Even those that have enjoyed things such as the Sherlock Holmes BBC radio drama series in the past. My only fault with this title is that sometimes, during an occasional scene, such as a struggle, you have to interpret what's happening. After a few seconds you're aware of exactly what has transpired anyway, but, a narrator for those few seconds would make it perfect. It's a small trade off, thriller vs immersion. It's all down to personal preference in my opinion. 4.5* for my preferences.
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- Scott Lee Smith
- 22-06-20
Surprisingly Brilliant.
This is a great adaptation of an original Assassins Creed story. I would highly recommend giving this a listen especially if you are a fan of the franchise like myself... to be honest I was quite largely sceptical at first as this isn’t the type of story/book I would usually listen to, alas I was gripped throughout and could not wait to see how the story unfolded. A little disappointed that it was only short of 5 hours long but hey, that does not in any way take away from the brilliance put into this. I keep my fingers crossed for more like this, as this seems like a great alternate avenue for the franchise to go down.
5* from me!
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- Miladin
- 29-08-21
Blind assassin, didn't see that coming :)
I'm not a fan of assassin's creed games (or rather gameplay) but the lore is, well siply awsome. Wish i had a disc version in my collection, this audio drama was realy good, so good i'm gonna listen to it again :)
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- Mark Kenna
- 24-03-20
Really enjoyed but way too short.
As soon as I was really hooked in and the story was developing it was over. I'm sure there will be more in the series but not really worth making with all the sound effects and actors etc when its so short. 10hrs minimum please.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-20
Awesome
All performances are great but especially Anthony Head. Listened to the whole story in one go.
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- digidel
- 06-06-21
Great characters . 5*
Attempted to give 5* but wouldn’t allow me past 4*. Would LOVE other assassins creed to be narrated like this.
Loved this audible book.
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- Mark
- 07-06-22
Good story
I thought the story was very good. Yes, there is a lot of swearing, but if you know that ahead of time then it doesn’t really detract from the experience. Is some of it unnecessary … probably, but it is what it is. I enjoyed the story and would definitely listen to another.
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