Another Simon Kernick

Superb storyline, not predictable and has enough twists. Well narrated too. Hopefully more like this to follow?

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Pulsating from start to finish

There are so many strong characters throughout this terrific thriller. Action rebounds off every page.
Anyone who loves a political adventure mixed with daring action packed adventure will lap up this first class novel.
Five stars is the least this author deserves for a classic modern day story.

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High octane British political romp!

Chanced upon this debut novel by an author new to me in the Plus Catalogue.
It's one political conspiracy thriller that actually thrills as it romps along at a fast pace.
At an event in Trafalgar Square to honour military servicemen, a highly skilled mercenary sniper takes out a security agent allowing an improbable looking gunman who seems to have missed his target, a former US president, to assassinate a British member of parliament instead. The perpetrator is instantly apprehended by seasoned specialist operative Joe Dempsey, meaning sniper 'Joshua' fails to silence his second target, so a scheme years in the planning starts to go array. Taken to a London Police station, the prisoners soon dead, but not before he's spoken to a lawyer, who in turn calls his friend criminal barrister Michael Devlin. Within hours there's a fatal car accident, Joshua's work, and soon he's pursuing Devlin & a CNN reporter who also knows a little too much. Meanwhile Dempsey recognises the hit-man's handiwork, realises there's a cover-up of the facts & suspicious investigates.
Bucking the trend to make foreign religious factions the terrorists, this novel returns to Ireland where despite the 'Troubles' deemed settled by a peace accord, unrest can be easily manipulated for political gain. And, in the end that's at the root of the story; one man's ruthless ambition to bring down a PM who's seen as soft on terrorism & place himself in power; he's flagged fairly early on as the villain.

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Brillant

Loved every second of the book. Peter Noble did the story justice and I believed in the characters and the arc of the story. Downloaded the second book. They’ve changed the narrator and it doesn’t work. I know how the characters sound and this is not it. Sent it back, sorry.

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Jack Reacher watch out! Joe dempsey is coming A

A taut exciting story well told Definitely worth following by fans of this genre Bring them on

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Great find ! So pleased

Throughly enjoyed this . Story line was so good . I love it when I find a good Audible and I’m off to listen to second one x

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Nail Biting at times

I only picked this because if was in the Plus catalogue and seemed like my kind of book.
Confusing to start - so many like sounding names and several different locations - it was a good hour in before I got the hang of who was who - so I started again!
Then I couldn't stop listening even though I had a good idea how it would end, the writer, along with the superb narration, kept me engrossed until the finish.
I will be looking for more from this duo.

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A great thriller.

I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook and the story, the narration was excellent and the characters well developed.

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high testosterone levels

had to slow down the narration as i thought the narrator would spontaneously combust . but the story was good and fast paced.

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Good but a little predictable

I enjoyed listening to it and it was well performed but the female characters lacked depth and the story was a little predictable. All in all worth listening to.

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