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Too Bad to Die
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
November, 1943. Weary of his deskbound status in the Royal Navy, intelligence officer Ian Fleming spends his spare time spinning stories in his head that are much more exciting than his own life - until the critical Tehran Conference, when Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin meet to finalize the D-Day invasion.
With the Big Three in one place, Fleming is tipped off that Hitler's top assassin has infiltrated the conference. Seizing his chance to play a part in a real-life action story, Fleming goes undercover to stop the Nazi killer. Between martinis with beautiful women, he survives brutal attacks and meets a seductive Soviet spy who may know more than Fleming realizes. As he works to uncover the truth and unmask the assassin, Fleming is forced to accept that betrayal sometimes comes from the most unexpected quarters - and that one's literary creations may prove eerily close to one's own life.
Brilliantly inventive, utterly gripping and suspenseful, Too Bad to Die is Francine Mathews' best novel yet and confirms her place as a master of historical fiction.
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- tina
- 16-03-15
Dodgy narration, ok plot
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Hmm - I wouldn't discourage them from reading it but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
The real characters - Fleming, Churchill, Pamela Churchill et al - in the plot were partly why I bought the book in the first place. The were all such intriguing and larger-than-life people that they do a lot of the work for the writer. The actual plot was pretty transparent from the start.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
The narrator was mostly ok but from the beginning he mispronounced words - e.g.'vac' should rhyme with back, not bake. When someone keeps doing that, I spend the next few minutes wondering why no-one on the production team corrected the narrator. Very distracting.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
No.
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