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Dead Line

Liz Carlyle, Book 4

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Dead Line

By: Stella Rimington
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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 MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source.

The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the deadline for action is drawing ever closer...

©2008 Stella Rimmington (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd Espionage Mystery Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Middle East
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Traditionally female narrators have been disliked by audio book fans. Maggie Mash should put an end to that. She is almost flawless. The one tiny niggle is that she reads a little slowly for my liking. Her cast of voices however is wide and consistent with every character firmly rooted in place and time. Men sound like men and women like women. Which is not true of all narrators.

Americans sound realistically American not just American-ish same for Israelis etc etc . Regional British accents are pulled off well as are Scottish accents. None of which fall in to parody. Although again some people might find it a little slow especially in the last act where things start warming up.

All this is important because the plot of Dead Line is complex and international. A bad reader could have spoiled what is an intricate and engaging book. I found the world of office politics and the blending of professional spy life and personal life very convincing. Although I would have been happy with an (even more) low key ending.
If you like Len Deightons Berlin game you will like this.

Almost flawless reading of an almost flawless book

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In future I'll make sure I don't choose a book with this narrator, for me the 'voices' of the characters ruined the story.

Annoying narrator

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DON'T BUY THIS audio version, buy the real book! It's a great yarn, gripping and authentic, but the narration in this audiobook is shockingly bad. Voices and accents are comic-book pastiche and cartoon-like (think fake Scots or Southern American drawl, like cheap bubble gum, or a Carry-On film East London taxi driver - terrible!) and delivered in such a ponderous and heavy-handed manner. Who produces this stuff?!

A great story ruined by terrible narration

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This was the first book I had read by this author. I can’t say it grabbed me and I did not like the narrator’s voice or her various accents.

Stella Remington novel - Dead Line

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So detailed and credible all the more so given the author’s past employment. Thoroughly recommend. Riveting.

Masterful

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