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Relentless

By: Simon Kernick
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Saturday afternoon: you're with the kids in the garden when the phone rings. It's your best friend from school. Someone you haven't seen for a few years. It should be a friendly call catching up on old times. But it's not. This call is different. Your friend is panting with fear, his breaths coming in tortured, ragged gasps. Someone is inflicting terrible pain on him. He cries out and then he utters six words that will change your life forever...the first two lines of your address.

©2006 Simon Kernick (P)2007 WF Howes Ltd Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Mystery

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This was my second and last effort. Never again will I listen to Paul Thorney reading anything. I definitely cannot stand him. His rythm : chuck, chuck, chuck is horrible to my ears. He reads
in the way I imagine somebody would read to his 100 years old aunt - finish quickly and not to bother.
I know that some people like his performance, so just a warning: play a sample. You will ever love it or hate it. If you hate it, don't buy. You will never get used!
I cannot estimate the story objectively. It seemed to me that the plot was cliché and the narration proceeded very slowly, but as I was so annoyed by the sound...

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A quiet start belies an urgent story. The narrator adopted such an "ordinary" voice for the main victim which contrasted so well with the menace of the criminals. A lot of twists and turns - some red herrings, kept me guessing to the end. It is good to find another author of this genre to follow.

Brilliant! Found another author!

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Kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering what was going to happen next.

Suspense indeed.

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To begin with i was dissapointed and with John Merons annoying inability to even try to describe his predicament to the police.Or to his motherinlaw for that matter. For these reasons the carefully crafted, shocking and griping plot left me with a cold, almost a cheated feeling.

griping brutal and cold

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Another fine book with a great interview at the end of the book between author and narrator

Addicted to Simon Kernick

He's done it again

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