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Exile

Marc Dane, Book 2

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Exile

By: James Swallow
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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About this listen

Nomad was explosive. This is nuclear....

The new thriller from internationally best-selling author James Swallow.

Move over Jason Bourne, Marc Dane is here....

A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons. A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing. A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn. A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him. Only one man sees what's coming. And even he might not be able to prevent it....

Racing breathlessly from uncharted CIA prisons to the skyscrapers of Dubai, from stormbeaten oil rigs off the African coast to the ancient caverns beneath the city of Naples, Marc Dane returns in the incredible new action thriller from the internationally best-selling author of Nomad.

©2017 James Swallow (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Espionage Genre Fiction Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting

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Critic reviews

"A second outing for Britain's answer to Jason Bourne...Our hero is the only person who can see the danger the world is facing. Fast-moving and fun...." ( Daily Mail)
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Starts of as a slow burner. Then rocks your world. Not sure I am lucky enough to work for that outfit.

chuffin triffic. if you want thrillin not Killin

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It was OK, but only OK. Farfetched, but that is common in this genre. I would have preferred it if it was /slightly/ more plausible. Yes, we want some pace and some action, but perhaps it needs more suspense. The team are funded by a billionaire... why are they constrained to only two agents all the time, when the bad guys are legion?

Will I read the next installment? maybe but I'm not sure.

Perfunctory.

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I really enjoyed the mix of action, team working, technical guile and vulnerability of the Marc Dane in Nomad, the first book in the series.

In this sequel, Exile, he has become terminator-like and any tension and suspense the first book held replaced with more action scenes and little character development. Again that was done in the first.

There is a semblance of a plot, and an entertaining book it is, but at no point do we feel anything other than a successful outcome for our uber-Dane or his sidekick who has also taken on an air of Hollywood indestructability.

Methinks this was written with the silver screen, or a 24-esque series in mind now it is open to further sequels. Narrator remains steadfast, but with less to work with.

Not as good as the first

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lots of superfluous detail on weapons and cars

read well by Colin Mace, pace is good

dull and over-detailed

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great performance...very good with the character voices. Got a bit if the action scenes but the story wasn't too predictable.

Good sequel. very well read. Dane is back alright

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