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  • Die Last

  • DC Max Wolfe Series, Book 4
  • By: Tony Parsons
  • Narrated by: Colin Mace
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,364 ratings)
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Die Last

By: Tony Parsons
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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Summary

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

There is a fate worse than death in this fifth instalment of the sensational Max Wolfe series, from best-selling author Tony Parsons.

©2017 Tony Parsons (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

"I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff." (Peter James, on The Hanging Club)
"This is Parson's best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent for sensing the zeitgeist." ( Daily Mail, on The Hanging Club)

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Gripping Contemporary Thriller

Great characters in a strong series that is well plotted (if you can forgive the coincidences). It's pacy and full of action as well as reflections on the world as it was and how it is now. Well read by Colin Mace, he's made it his own now. Smiths of Smithfield and BMW should be pleased with their free publicity. Kept me hooked all the way.

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Awful awful awful

Where do I start?
Awful book. The narrator is good but the story is dreadful. He is a policeman who lives in a central London loft apartment and drives a BMWX5. The BMW X5 Is talked about a lot, he climbs into the BMW X5, slows the BMW X5 and walks around it. Enough of the BMW X5!!He seems to never follow any rules or police procedures of any kind but it's ok because no one does, the entire Met has gone maverick. The dialogue is appalling and the plot is just gibberish. I'm no pedant but this really is pushing the very edge of believability.
Oh and he had a child and 24 hour child care. It's really bad and so bad it's occasionally funny.
But really don't bother.

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From Strength to Strength!

This is just fabulous, one of those occasions where writer and narrator seem to fit hand in glove to deliver a fabulous listening experience. Max Wolfe and his daughter Scout are firmly ensconced in this reader's heart and I hope that this series is a long-runner!

This one delves into the murky world of human trafficking and there are one or two parts where I don't think that it could actually work as the author has described. However, I love how Tony Parsons writes, he captures scenes, feelings and character often in very few, incredibly well-chosen words. It's a real talent and it allows a lot of depth in terms of character to shine through giving the whole thing a genuine warmth in amongst what is a tale about human suffering.

Most definitely recommended!

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awesome as usual!

Colin Mace is exactly what I believe Max to sound like. He has a wonderful narrating voice and I only hope he doesn't lose the 'gig' to someone else for this series of books. Max would never be the same again if he did.

As for the story, sad, harrowing at times, touching at others. Tony Parsons doing what he does best. On to the next one now, Tony. Please?! xx

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love these books

love the author, love the narrator. he has built up characters that you want to hear more about as much as the story, having said that the plot and content of this book were excellent.

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Fab!

I guessed the twist right at the start, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment. A great 4th book in a brilliant series. Excellent narration.

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Good story spoiled being inaccurate & far-fetched

This story was so far fetched and had lots of inaccuracies, not to mention behavioural nonsense.

The most glaring was that a guide dog was 'delivered' to the recipients house – not to the actual hand of the blind person, nor collected by the blind person. In my understanding a recipient of a guide dog has to be trained, as well as the dog being trained. In this case the boy had gone to his bedroom in a fit of peak announcing that he didn't want the dog!! The highly trained, and very expensively trained dog was then GIVEN AWAY to someone as a pet!!! This was just so astonishing and utterly ridiculous.
The Police boss was rude and obnoxious, she was also totally incompetent, sending inexperienced officers into dangerous situations that they were not trained for. This is absolute nonsense.
The female detective was downright rude when interviewing a Chinese man, it was indefensible to show such racism.
Overall the whole book was unpleasant, the basic story could have been so good, but it was so far-fetched.
At one stage the villain was waiting in a narrow passageway and the hall was entered by a string of police officers. The comment was that the villain 'had the element of surprise' and proceeded to knock out each officer - now OK, one or two I can understand the element of surprise, but after the first one or two I would have thought that they would have noticed that their colleagues were being felled one by one …..
The main policeman turned a blind eye to one illegal immigrant, but reported others that he wasn't directly involved with. Just too silly by far.

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A dark tale of human trafficking

The narrator Colin Mace is excellent. Descriptions of London are sublime! Simply the unfolding of DC Max Wolfe throughout the stories has always been interesting and I hope in more books to come you get more character depth with Wolfe.

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Loved it

Although inaccurate information about care of people with ASD who absolutely do not get locked up for life in 'psychiatric hospitals' !!
Poor research I feel.
Apart from that I loved the audiobook. Well read and an interesting, topical story line. Love Max Wolf, Scout, Stan and Mrs Murphy. Characters to care about. Well developed and believable.

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Brilliant

Once again I could not stop listening to this latest novel by Tony Parsons. It gripped me from the start.

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