Awful Narration & Little Annoying Details

Ditto to everyone's comments regarding the farcical narration. The story was interesting so I suffered through it...
I'm now at the stage with Mr Leather's books that I'm finishing off sentences.

I mean, does EVERYONE drink Evian Water????? Do they have "old acne scars", do they "drink deeply"??? And on and on and on...

In this story they had the guy's number so why didn't they get his Missus to call him - I don't want to give the game away but the Editor should be a lot more thorough. That said there are not as many clangers as there used to be.

Pull this awful version and get Thornally to narrate it!

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Heckler & coke anyone!

The narration really let a great story down, pronunciation of key word carbine (carbeeen) and heckler & Koch (coke) are just 2 examples.
Maybe a re-release with the great Paul Thornley voicing the male characters with Laura kirkman handling the narrative & lead female voice, obviously with pronunciation coaching

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enjoyed the story but not the performance.

I enjoyed the story but the voices for the male characters (and there are mostly male characters) are terrible, especially the bad attempt at a northerner. Also, what the flip is a car bean? I'm guessing she means carbine but the way she pronounces it is really distracting, someone should have told her! Fortunately the performance wasn't so bad that it ruined the story, just could have been better.

This is the first Stephen Leather book I've listened too/ 'read', I'll probably check out his others!

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excellent listen

really enjoyed this story. get engrossed in the characters as the story moves through the gears.

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The Runner

Another brilliant read from the master! I really enjoyed this fast moving, all action book, The characters are almost believable and a few old faces turn up to play their part. I read this book inside a day, it is absorbing edge of the seat stuff and I highly recommend it to anyone. I've not heard this reader before but she does a really good job.

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Awful narration.

Potentially another Stephen Leather classic, unfortunately let down by poor narration. Awful accents and mispronunciation of carbine (carbeen) and Heckler and Koch (coke) meant I struggled to reach the end. Would have been so much better with Paul Thornley reading.

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Great story, building suspense.

This is a great story, created well in Stephen Leathers usual way, characters engaging and believable and plot lines plausible. I listened to this with teeth gritted though. It was like my first grade teacher was reading it to me. The narrator voices all female characters with high pitched girly tones apart from one who has an improbably gruff misguided attempt at what I think is a Scouse accent but comes over as a mish mash of God knows what. As for the men, they sound like a primary school teacher's impression of the troll in Billy Goats Gruff. Seriously, Stephen Leather should be distraught at this wholesale massacre of his really rather excellent book.

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Good story, poor choice of narrator

Enjoyable story, but, whilst Laura is a good narrator for a bright lively tale, she is unsuited to this type of tense narrative.

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Great story, poor narration

Story is as excellent as one would expect from Stephen Leather

The narration was awful, I don’t think Laura Kirman has ever heard a man speak...or at least that’s what it seems like from hearing her impression of one. Also - did no one hear her say Carbine the first time around and correct her?

This next point isn’t a slight on the quality of the narration but this story is meant to be set in the same universe as the Dan Shepherd novels narrated by Paul Thornley but the voice acting was so far from what the listener is used to that it doesn’t feel like it when you’re listening. I understand that when reading the books it wouldn’t be a problem but, when listening to the audiobooks, you get used you a set of voices for Charlotte Button and Major Gannon etc; you build up an image and your own idea of a person which is then thrown completely out of the window when they’ve gone from sounding like a privately-educated Home Counties born major to a south Londoner (for example)

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great book..... good narrator

Had to listen drove really slowly everywhere just to hear more.

Other people didn't rate the narrator, I thought she had a great voice.

hopefully more of Sally soon.

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