Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Dangerous Hero

  • Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power
  • By: Tom Bower
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (178 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Dangerous Hero cover art

Dangerous Hero

By: Tom Bower
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £17.99

Buy Now for £17.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Right to Rule cover art
The Plot cover art
The Fall of Boris Johnson cover art
One Party After Another cover art
The Abuse of Power cover art
Wicked Beyond Belief cover art
John Adams cover art
The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu cover art
Ally cover art
Meghan and Harry cover art
Turning Points cover art
Protest and Power cover art
Beyond the Red Wall cover art
Keep Talking cover art
The Shadow Party cover art
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789 cover art

Summary

A gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing Street could mean for Britain.

After four unremarkable decades in politics, Jeremy Corbyn stands on the brink of power. Until his surprise election as leader of the Labour Party in 2015, this seemingly unelectable oddball had not been a major political player. Since then, Corbyn has survived coup attempts and accusations of incompetence that would have felled most politicians, including grave charges of anti-Semitism, bullying and not being the master of his brief. Despite these shortcomings, as the Conservatives rip themselves apart over Europe, he is likely soon to become Britain's Prime Minister.

Yet this hero of the far left has done his best to conceal much of his past and personal life from public scrutiny. In this audiobook, best-selling investigative biographer Tom Bower reveals hidden truths about Corbyn's character, the causes and organisations he espouses and Britain's likely fate under the Marxist-Trotskyist society he has championed since the early 1970s.

Based on eyewitness accounts from those who have known Corbyn throughout his life, the audiobook asks whether a Labour government led by Corbyn would transform the country for the better. Has capitalism, as he argues, run its course, and would our lives be improved by socialism? If so, what is Corbyn's brand of socialism? The same as that experienced under successive Labour governments since 1945 or something more extreme? Will his advocacy of more debt, tax hikes and renationalisation reproduce the fate of Venezuela as championed by his own hero Hugo Chávez? Is he a reformer or a revolutionary? Will he deliver a glowing new era or catastrophe?

His supporters damn every opponent and critic, calling them 'traitors' or worse. Does this aggression, and the accusations that paint Corbyn as an entrenched anti-Semite and misogynist, override his image as an authentic 'good bloke'?

Many are excited by the prospect of Corbyn’s arrival in Downing Street. Others believe that Corbyn as Prime Minister will prove to be a dangerous hero.

©2019 Tom Bower (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"The book every voter must read." (Mail on Sunday)

"Funny and devastating, it stands as an indictment of both the Labour Party and a political system that allows an individual such as Jeremy Corbyn to come within shouting distance of the levers of power in this country." (Daily Telegraph)

"The most compelling in-depth study so far of a man whose head is unusually difficult to get inside." (The Guardian)

What listeners say about Dangerous Hero

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    119
  • 4 Stars
    37
  • 3 Stars
    11
  • 2 Stars
    8
  • 1 Stars
    3
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    107
  • 4 Stars
    36
  • 3 Stars
    9
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    2
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    101
  • 4 Stars
    32
  • 3 Stars
    11
  • 2 Stars
    3
  • 1 Stars
    6

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An anatomy of a liar

"Stupid people". An interesting perspective on a devious and deceitful politician, a likely anti-semite and possibly the worst Labour party leader there has ever been.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

6 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

be scared, very scared.

This man and his band of trots need to be stopped. . . . . . . .

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Read This and Remember.

I think everyone of voting age in the UK should listen to this book and all I can say is God help this country if Corbyn ever got elected as PM. He’s an absolute disgrace of a man so just be careful what you wish for.


Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

What a terrifying, compelling eye opener.

Like so many people I was unsure about Jeremy Corbyn in 2016 and had a curious fascination with the person who had transformed the left of British politics.

Like many people the more I got to see him the less sure I was about his past and what he would mean as prime minister. I wondered if I was being unfair. After reading this I can see that I was not.

the author approaches this subject clearly from the centre left, but not of the Corbyn faction. this makes the dissection and exposure of Corbyn's past so much more devastating. His life has been diligently chronicled and explained as to how it has shaped the politics of the man, and how he was spring to public consciousness in 2016, so far from his days as an early firebrand MP.

I was concerned that this would be an out and out hatchet job, but it is far too empirical and objective for that. For any British voter who flirted with voting for Corbyn in either 17 or 19 should definitely read this. your political judgement may be rocked for some time.

The only regret about the book is that it was written prior to the 2019 election. this would have made a fascinating chapter as the British public overwhelmingly rejected Corbyn and his brand.

Finally, if you are a Corbynista, this book is probably not for you. Anyone else, it most certainly is.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

4 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

essential reading if interested in politics

Most people appreciate Corbyn's flaws but this book crystallizes quite what a threat he is to the UK. Whilst he remains leader of labour they will remain unelectable. A terrible reality if you believe in a centre left view of the world.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A brilliant account of the Labour leader

JC could have been PM especially against Theresa May - Britain dodged a frightening future by rejecting Corbyn.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Every Uk voter should listen to this book

Irrespective of which political party people support, in order to make an informed decision how to vote at the next general election, they really should listen to this book. It is well researched, very well written and highly informative.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

fascinating

I listened intently to every word. every 16 year old should read this book. The gripping politics of our time.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

The most frightning book that I have ever read

Listening to this book it almost beggers belief that people are taken in and support this man whose stated aim is to destroy our country and to turn it into a Marxist, totalitarian state. Every one of the awful revalations that I thought couldn't be true, turned out to be absolutely true when I researched them. Read/listen to this book, look up each fact that his supporters would have you belief are fabrications of the right wing press and you will find that they are true. God help our country if Corbyn and his Marxist, Communist cronies ever get into power

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A Warning For All

A very interesting read which shows that Corbyn does not care about the poor the country or its people. He is interested in an ideology that should have died out in the 20th century. Racist, sexist and unapologetic Corbyn is hungry for power.
Excellent read and very well narrated

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

9 people found this helpful