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Whatever Gets You Through the Night
- Narrated by: Charles Higson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks. But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer, specialising in getting people out of places they don't want to be with the minimum of fuss, publicity and violence. The job in Corfu should be easy—spring Lauren, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, from the luxury compound of the tech billionaire, Julian Hepworth. Hepworth's young, handsome and charismatic—he's also a suspected paedophile.
But as McIntyre sets up his operation, things quickly start to slip out of control. Soon, he has to contend with Albanian gangsters, Greek drug dealers, psychotic bodyguards, flat earthers and spoilt, wealthy teenagers looking for dangerous kicks. Everything converges on a glamorous summer party at Hepworth's spectacular villa; can McIntyre play the different factions off against each other and get Lauren to safety without things going horribly wrong?
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"Hugely entertaining." (Sunday Times)
"A perfect read." (Guardian)
"Terrific." (i)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Alex
- 16-04-22
Funny, outrageous and heartfelt
Hilarious, exhilarating story. Satirical and yet so close to reality and modern life. Every character has a dark side, but also a human side. Just people trying to get by in a messed-up world. Truth stranger than fiction, hard to know when to laugh or cry.
Higson tackles everything from flat-earthers to island drug culture, Greece’s financial crisis to sexism, religious fanaticism to sexual abuse. They are all here, cleverly wrapped up in a darkly humorous and hilarious satire with no holds barred.
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- Ines
- 08-03-23
Brilliant Thriller
Love Charlie Higson’s voice and the characters are distinct despite the number of them! Great story and found myself stopping everything I was doing as I was engrossed in the action!
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- drpeckham
- 27-11-22
Really enjoyable thriller
Really enjoyed listening to this thriller. Solid, great plot, interesting characters, removed based me of Charlie's books from the 90s which I also loved.
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- Simon Middleyard
- 06-04-22
Cliches followed by stereotypes
I had hoped for so much from this title; I love Higson's Young Bond books, which are fast-paced page-turners with well-developed characters and plots.
Sadly Whatever Gets You Through The Night is far from that; the characters are a sequence of stereotypes - the powerful man with a penchant for young girls, the Eastern European thugs, the token 'black' girl angry at being judged by her skin colour, the desperate alcoholic father trying to make things better too late. Nothing novel or exciting.
The story is a mess - too many people, too little happening - and I'm sorry to say, but the author's limited voices don't help. By the end of chapter 5 I'd had enough. I couldn't follow who was doing what, where loyalties lay or even the basic premise of the story. A rare return to Audible I'm afraid.
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- Oli W
- 28-07-22
Quite Joyless
The lead character was the bad guy as far as I can tell and I really struggled to track the protagonists journey, I must have missed something. Often diverts into thinly veiled essays and debunking internet movements, which I agree with entirely but was a distraction. I really like the Author but probably for thier comedy work and I doubt that much conciliation here but I found it to be quite without humour.
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