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City of Spies
- City of Spies, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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The stunning debut from the new name to watch in espionage thrillers. For fans of Charlotte Philby, The Night Manager and Rory Clements, this is perfect Sunday night (or any night) drama.
Lisbon, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait out the war. One of them is a traitor, and she must find out who before more British servicemen die.
Complications arise when 'Solange' comes to the attention of German Abwehr officer Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth.
But in a city that is filled with spies, how can she tell who is friend or foe?
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- Mark L.
- 19-11-21
Brilliant
One of the best novels I’ve found on audible yet, it will be hard too top
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- Aley Rochester
- 30-01-22
City of spies
A fabulous book, full of twists and turns. The characters are intreging. Excellently read. leaves you wanting more.
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- R. Owen
- 19-02-24
Cliche & Weak
More Jilly Cooper than Le Carré this airport romp contains more cliches than ought to be acceptable. Two dimensional characters and unlikely scenarios spoil the potentially enjoyable read. The narrators accents are great reminders of ‘allo, allo’. A weak effort I’m afraid.
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- Maria
- 02-03-21
Couldn’t stop, amazing
Fantastic story and believe you me, as a Portuguese myself and knowing a bit about Portuguese history, it fits perfectly well with the times and mentally that prevailed to these days....
Fantastic reading, thank you!
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- SjpP
- 02-06-21
Overall, I'm impressed
after an excellent beginning towards the third quartile I thought the story and the dialogue began to deteriorate, stretching credibility a tad. A good ending though reprieved the book for me and I look forward to the sequel, soon I hope.
I liked the author's post script plug for Lisbon as a short stay holiday location. I'm tempted having never been there.
A very good narration.
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- john Michael
- 28-02-21
Great novel
loved both writing and construction. I was particlarly impressed with it as debut novel and look forward to the further adventures of 'Lizbeth in the future. Keep them coming Mara.
The performance was excellent, Kirsten always does a good job.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-09-23
Beautiful blend of history and fiction
A fantastic fiction with gripping writing and excellent narration. I feel like I've known the characters myself.
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- Jgfj Butler
- 15-11-23
intrigue and Fado
Enjoyable spy story line with WW2 flavour and a nice historic understanding of Potugals balancing act during that time .
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- Amazon Customermaggie
- 10-07-22
spies
Good story a bit slow at times, a change from my usual type of book,enjoy
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- Green Rhino
- 29-08-22
City of Spies
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel as it contains at least two of my favourite subjects; Spies, of course, are a great genre and especially wartime stories. Secondly, Lisbon itself is a wonderful city, full of interest for travelers. The food is mostly of a high standard & the wines are both good quality and used to be reasonably priced. Estoril and Cascais are delightful although somewhat faded nowadays. The details in the novel remind me of many happy visits to this city.
The quality of both the writing and the narration are excellent.
My only gripe, is a personal one of dislike of “hanging” endings, where, having invested in the characters, one is left not knowing their futures. However, I note that, a further title by the author has been released. Perhaps, all will be clarified.
Portugal is Britains oldest ally and it’s people are proud & friendly, however, may I politely suggest that you learn a few phrases in Portuguese and do not mistakenly use Spanish, which will almost certainly offend.
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