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Assassin's Creed: Gold

By: Anthony Del Col
Narrated by: Riz Ahmed,John Chancer,Ray Fearon,Anthony Head,Tamara Lawrance,Gemma Lawrence,Danny Wallace
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Enter the World of Assassin's Creed. Assass1n’s Creed is a third person open world action adventure game franchise spanning the course of history. The series depicts a centuries-old struggle, between the Assassins, who fight for peace with free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. Assassin’s Creed features historical fiction, science fiction and fictional characters, intertwined with real-world historical events and figures. Players control an Assassin in the past, while switching to an Assassin Initiate in the present day, both of whom are on the hunt for their Templar targets.

Meet the key characters

Born to a very poor single mother in the Brixton area of London, Aliyah has had to hustle her entire life to get ahead. She’s extremely sharp and intelligent, but quite often the chip on her shoulder about her upbringing will stop her from succeeding. Her upbringing and abandonment at the hands of her father has led her not to trust others.

One of history’s greatest thinkers, now in his 50s, Newton - brilliant, eccentric and no people skills - becomes obsessed with finding and stopping Chaloner. After embarking on this quest he realises he’s going to have to act as more than an academic and get his hands dirty. It’s a personal challenge to Newton, and his obsessive personality won’t allow him to back down.

The lead of our 1696 story, Omar was raised the blind son of a butler in London. Recruited by the Assassins at 12, he’s done a great deal that’s scarred him leading him to help society through non-violent means. But when he sees the only way to take down the great counterfeiter is by fighting violence with violence, he’s pulled back into his old ways.

Shaun is a history expert and provides research and historical context to his fellow characters in Assassin's Creed: Gold - both verbally and through his entries in the Animus database. Shaun is rather sarcastic and condescending towards his colleagues, having little patience for small talk.

Immerse yourself in Assassin's Creed: Gold

In 1696, Rose Galloway & Omar Khaled secretly meet in a Church Crypt
In 2019, Aliyah is distressed in the Animus whilst Gavin & My'Shell look on.
Aliyah describes how she was introduced to poker, before we return to the interrogation room in Newgate Jail in 1696.
It’s 2019, and Gavin, Aliyah and My'Shell are at the London Docks in a Shipping container.
  • In 1696, Rose Galloway & Omar Khaled secretly meet in a Church Crypt
  • In 2019, Aliyah is distressed in the Animus whilst Gavin & My'Shell look on.
  • Aliyah describes how she was introduced to poker, before we return to the interrogation room in Newgate Jail in 1696.
  • It’s 2019, and Gavin, Aliyah and My'Shell are at the London Docks in a Shipping container.
Anthony Del Col

About the author

Anthony Del Col is a bestselling writer of comics, audio dramas, television and stage. He created Audible’s thriller Unheard: The Story of Anna Winslow which debuted at #1 in the U.S. and U.K. in late-2017. He is the co-creator of the award-winning comic book series Kill Shakespeare which has been adapted as a stage show, audio drama, table-top game and is currently in development for TV, as well as the writer of comics including Luke Cage: Everyman, Assassin's Creed and controversial WWII graphic novel Son of Hitler.

Though a proud Canadian, Del Col lives in New York with wife Lisa and son Dashiell.

Riz Ahmed

Riz Ahmed stars as Omar Khalid


Emmy award winner Riz Ahmed is a critically acclaimed actor, writer, creator, producer, musician, director and activist. He became one of Hollywood’s most sought after artists following the explosive success of HBO’s The Night Of, written and created by the legendary Steven Zaillan for which he won an Emmy Award, and was Golden Globe and SAG nominated. He has starred in successful feature films including Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers and most-recently Sony/Marvel’s Venom. He first garnered industry attention in festival favourites Four Lions and Nightcrawler.

John Chancer

John Chancer stars as Gavin Banks


John Chancer has narrated audio dramas including Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Around the World in 80 Days and Murder on the Orient Express. He has provided his voice for over 100 audiobooks and dozens of video games, radio dramas and cartoons. Visually, he has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including Casino Royale, The One and Only Ivan, Spooks, Episodes and Top Coppers. He also has a long association with theatre all over the UK and in the USA.

Ray Fearon

Ray Fearon stars as Fahad Kahn


After graduating from drama school, Ray garnered a reputation as a stage actor with the RSC and in the West End, becoming the first black actor to play Othello on an RSC stage in over 40 years and later becoming an RSC Associate Artist. His other notable theatre credits include playing Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar (RSC), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (RSC) directed by Michael Attenborough, the title role in Pericles (RSC), Macbeth at Manchester Festival, The Soldier’s Fortune at the Young Vic, and Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads at the National Theatre. Ray’s film credits include the blockbuster Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone, Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet and starring in Oskar Roehlar’s Lulu and Jimmi. His extensive television credits include BBC One’s Silk, Waking the Dead and Death In Paradise and ITV1’s Prime Suspect.

Anthony Head

Anthony Head stars as Isaac Newton


English actor Anthony Head graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, (a family thing - his mother and his brother both acted, and now, so do his daughters.) You may recognise him from his role as Giles, the librarian/Watcher across seven series of late-90’s hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or even as Uther from Merlin, or the P.M in Little Britain. In addition to performances across theatre (including The Rocky Horror Show, Rope, Otherwise Engaged, and Love In Idleness), TV (Manchild, Vanity Fair, and The Stranger), film (The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and A Street Cat Named Bob). Anthony is also a musician.

Tamara Lawrance

Tamara Lawrance stars as Aliyah Khan


Known internationally for her work on stage, particularly in several award-winning plays at London’s National Theatre, on television- following parts in Undercover (2016) and King Charles III (2017) - Tamara was critically lauded in The Long Song (2018), playing the lead role of Miss July in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel. She plays the lead in feature film Corvidae, and is in Steve McQueen’s new BBC TV Series.

Recently named a Screen International “Screen Star of Tomorrow 2018”, WhatsOnStage named her one of “10 theatre faces to look out for” and The Guardian listed her in “20 talents set to take 2017 by storm”.

Gemma Lawrence

Gemma Lawrence stars as Rose Galloway


Gemma Lawrence is known for her work across film, TV and theatre, whose credits include The National Theatre, Young Vic and Shakespeare's Globe. Gemma has graced our screens opposite Idris Elba in Luther, in Shakespeare & Hathaway and Holby City as well as many much loved dramas across the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.

Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace stars as Shaun Hastings


He’s a multi-award-winning television and radio presenter, an internationally-bestselling author of 17 books, a BAFTA-winning voiceover artist, and Jim Carrey played him in a film.

On TV, he’s hosted Saturday night shows on BBC1 like Test the Nation and written and presented documentaries like Horizon, plus shows on Radio 2, Radio 4, 6Music, Absolute, plus the triple Sony Award-winning XFM Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace. He’s acted in six Assassin’s Creed games.

His writing career includes Sunday Times-bestsellers Awkward Situations for Men and Yes Man, the multi-award-winning children’s series, Hamish and the WorldStoppers and work for TIME, The Guardian, and ShortList magazine.

Summary

Please note: This title contains explicit language

Assassin’s Creed: Gold is a stand-alone tale from the Assassin's Creed universe in which we meet Aliyah Khan, a card shark and hustler who’s been dealt a rough hand in life. Surviving through her smarts and street scams, Aliyah struggles to get by until she loses big time to a mysterious older man, Gavin Banks. Her only option to repay Banks is to become an Assassin. During her training, Banks tells Aliyah of the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars, imploring her to help him decode a secret message inscribed on an illegal form of currency during the Great Recoinage of 1696.   

With a cast of characters beloved the world over by fans of the franchise, Assassin’s Creed: Gold tells a gripping tale of imminent economic collapse, featuring appearances from Warden of the Royal Mint, Isaac Newton, con artist and counterfeiter William Chaloner, blind assassin Omar Khaled and assassin trainer Rose Galloway. Equal parts adrenaline-fueled and thought-provoking, Assassin’s Creed: Gold draws a compelling parallel with the financial chaos of Isaac Newton’s 17th-century Britain and the economic uncertainty of our more recent history.  

Audible’s new full-cast drama will realise the clash of the Assassins and Templars as a gripping audio thriller with lead performances from Riz Ahmed (Emmy winner, Golden Globe nominee, The Night Of, Rogue One, Four Lions), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, Little Britain), Danny Wallace (BAFTA Games Award winner, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed III) and Tamara Lawrance (Corvidae, On Chesil Beach).  

Performed by: Riz Ahmed, Laura Aikman, Rachel Atkins, Brian Bowles, Andrew Branch, John Chancer, Lily Donovan, Rupert Fairley, Ray Fearon, Owen Findlay, Jason Forbes, Nicholas Goh, Anthony Head, David John, Jim Johnson, Will Kelly, Tamara Lawrance, John Last, Gemma Lawrence, Nicholas le Prevost, Simon Lipson, Hayward Morse, Paul Panting, Laila Payne, Nigel Pilkington, Joseph Radcliffe, David Rintoul, Anne Rosenfeld, Jennifer Saayeng, Gyuri Sarossy, Danny Wallace and Daniel Weyman.

©2019 Ubisoft Entertainment (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

The making of Assassin's Creed: Gold

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The Great Recoinage. In 1696 the English Government under King William III tried - and failed - to replace all the coins currently in circulation leading to coins being counterfeited. With many forged coins still floating about in the world part of Aliyah’s task in the story is to decode a message on one of the false coins.

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Maybe just not my thing!

I enjoyed playing the game but definitely does not translate to book form for me. It lacks an eloquence and sophistication that a literary work needs to be successful. The amount of cursing in it just distracts from the story. In the game its fine as it is a submersive experience, but you need a different approach to achieve the same effect in a book. Also the fine graphics in the game need to compensated for by finer discription of place and atmosphere in a written work. Full credit to the actors but this script needs reworking.

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A really frustrating listen

Having seen a few reviews bring the swearing into question I initially dismissed them as being too prudish, but actually having listened I have to agree that, yes, there is too much swearing! I'm still not sure if it's a misguided attempt to be edgy or just lazy writing, but it certainly doesn't add to the immersion.

Any kind of fictional entertainment asks that you suspend disbelief, but this book really makes you work hard to do so. Our main character is a grifter in the modern day, we first meet her pulling the classic 'find the lady' three card monte routine… In 2020… on the streets of London. As if that isn't hard enough to believe somehow a wealthy upper class mark comes along, who not only has never been made aware of this centuries old carnival scam through TV, books etc., but is also inexplicably willing to throw down a substantial amount of cash on the game. Upon discovering it's a scam he calls out for a "copper". Not "police", not "help", but copper. Maybe it seems like I'm overly analysing a small exchange, but they continue on like this throughout the opening.

Early on contact is made with the Assassins. A character introduces himself as being with the "Assassins Brotherhood", to which our protagonist immediately questions "brotherhood?". Again this is in the modern day, are we really meant to believe that of those two words it’s brotherhood she takes exception to?

Maybe I’m nitpicking, but I really found the dialogue to be painful to the point of absolutely drawing me out of the story at every opportunity.

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Just not a good story

While I enjoyed the performance, I thought the story weak and disjointed. Spending too much time on minor parts of the story and then skipping through the important parts of the story seems like a strange thing to do.

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Assassins Creed if it was CW tv show

If i could describe the opening 20mins of this audiobook in one word it would be obnoxious. An obnoxious main character with an obnoxious voice cursing every other sentence and bababling on about gambling. When this story finally started to feel like assassin's creed around 20mins the main character finds herself in the company of the assassins. Whom within minutes she accepts at face value and jumps into the animus. It was also at this point they decided to criticize the name "assassins brotherhood" for not being gender neutral because apparently we're living in the me too era. So i thought maybe once we get into the animus we won't have to listen to this obnoxious millennial dialogue, after all we're going to the 1600s. But no, they actually have the main character commentating what her annesestor is experiencing. And of course being your average obnoxious millennial interprets every disagreement between two people of different races as racism. It was at that point i tapped out and was done with this nonsense. Like i said, thoroughly obnoxious.

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not bad

i quite enjoyed it but it felt like loads of the issues in it are forced. there was a bit in it when the female lead wakes up and she is offered some curry and she says this is a bit stereotypical as i believe she is asian in it. there was no need for this as curry is very common place in england. just seemed very forced. try not to bring agenda's into the next audiobook.

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Awful

Thought I would like it, and it definitely didn't hit expectations, which was a shame.

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Brilliant!

Awesome, great listen. One of the best Audio Drama’s made! in my top 3! Fantastic!

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High potential, ruined

I am a fan of the games and was looking forward to the chance to expand the universe. However the level of unrequited swearing kept pulling me out of the story. I understand that people swear, but in this story it serves no purpose and is used so casually it can't even be said to be being used for emphasis or effect.

The story itself is interesting if a little strangely paced. If you start it, stick with it, the story improves (and conversely the swearing reduces) as it goes on, and I would be intrigued to maybe give a sequel a try, especially if they spent more time in the present day setting.

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Great

Really good, I would have liked it a little longer but can we have more stories like this one

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Awesome

Didnt know what to expect from this, love the games enjoy some of the books, even like the film. This production was excellent, perfectly in keeping with the games. Great independent story

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