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Comeback

By: Dick Francis
Narrated by: Tony Britton
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Summary

Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood, at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theater was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir.

The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn't solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered people and what was at stake. And now he knew enough to get himself killed.

©1991 Dick Francis (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Good story... sound Very poor .

Well read , good story but sound quality very poor. Background noise very distracting.
This book should be re read or withdrawn ! Unfair to charge for this audio book, if it was bought from a shop I would have returned it for a refund!

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Good story - terrible sound quality

the book is really impacted by the very poor sound quality - makes it difficult to listen

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Classic Francis

I loved this as I drove to & from the Q.E. Hospital, 3 hours of great story telling. Made the journey flash by & I looked forward to the motorways!
But there is a background noise to this recording which was VERY distracting. It varies though the book & I did wonder if Tony Britton was sat in a mens' public lavatory whilst reading. Both tinkling water & later birdsong, I found my brain straining to identify. This meant I had to re listen to several parts over & over to get the storyline.
Background noise is sometimes incongruous to the setting of a chapter & it certainly affects the concentration & pleasure of listening.
This would certainly bear re-recording!

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Great read

As expected a good Dick Francis novel, intriguing and full of interesting fact. Really enjoyed the book, read superbly but the technical quality was low. Pauses and sound quality should never have passed a QA check which makes one question if there was one! A real shame.

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Another great book

Shame about the quality of the recording, but ignore it and enjoy a cracking good story.

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good apart from sound quality.

good story, again the perpetrator is just a bit too surprising and frankly, unlikely.
Britton as excellent as ever.
Bolinda manage to undermine the excellence by their traditional incompetence when it comes to recording levels, speed and this one has sections that sound like they were recorded in a toilet. I have listen to all of the books to this point recently and Bolinda are the final word in poor quality. Francis and Britton deserve better, much better.

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Winner

Tony Britton brings the novel alive. the best narrator.I've head so far. a perfect companion to a great novelist

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Good story

Enjoyed the story and very well read, but was the narrator sitting in an aviary with a water feature tinkling in the background ?

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Poor sound quality

Would you listen to Comeback again? Why?

I would not listen again, the sound is poor with background hiss and noise. I started to listen out for the background noise and not so much on the story which is a shame as I have always enjoyed his audio books in the past.

What three words best describe Tony Britton’s voice?

Rich expressive calming

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Would not listen in one sitting

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There were also gaps in the recording, quite distracting.

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Sound NOT a problem.

I saw many reviews stating that the sound quality on this recording ruined the listening pleasure...I disagree. it's years old so one would expect technical weakness but really, those poor reviews were way over the top. Yes, the quality of sound changes frequently but the reader is so good and the story so riveting that I barely noticed. Don't let it put you off an absorbing Dick Francis yarn!

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