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Dead Line

Liz Carlyle, Book 4

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 MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss, Charles Wetherby, head of the Service's Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source.

The future of the whole of the Middle East is at stake and the deadline for action is drawing ever closer....

©2008 Stella Rimmington (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd Espionage Mystery Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Middle East
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Traditionally female narrators have been disliked by audio book fans. Maggie Mash should put an end to that. She is almost flawless. The one tiny niggle is that she reads a little slowly for my liking. Her cast of voices however is wide and consistent with every character firmly rooted in place and time. Men sound like men and women like women. Which is not true of all narrators.

Americans sound realistically American not just American-ish same for Israelis etc etc . Regional British accents are pulled off well as are Scottish accents. None of which fall in to parody. Although again some people might find it a little slow especially in the last act where things start warming up.

All this is important because the plot of Dead Line is complex and international. A bad reader could have spoiled what is an intricate and engaging book. I found the world of office politics and the blending of professional spy life and personal life very convincing. Although I would have been happy with an (even more) low key ending.
If you like Len Deightons Berlin game you will like this.

Almost flawless reading of an almost flawless book

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In future I'll make sure I don't choose a book with this narrator, for me the 'voices' of the characters ruined the story.

Annoying narrator

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I’m not given to writing reviews normally, but the narration on this otherwise fairly enjoyable story by Stella Rimmington was to put it mildly appalling. The male voices without exception were ponderous, slow, tedious and frankly excruciating. I put up with the narration because I was otherwise enjoying the story, but I won’t be listening to any more, certainly not by this narrator. I’m really sorry Maggie Mash, but for my money you need to listen more to the way that men really speak and inject more reality into your interpretations.

Good story, awful narration

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This was one of those books you struggle to settle with initially I think the reason for this could lie in the fact you are introduced to large number of characters very quickly and establishing who is the central one is frustrating.
I did listen to the first 30mins and gave up until much later, when i have to say it was well worth going back to. Its well written well narrated and reveals itself as a very high quality piece of work which you would expect from such a renowned author.

Slow Start but worth it.

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Good story with several strands to it, unpredictable twists and turns. Sadly spoiled for me by the narrator. Her voice was fine, but her attempts at the various characters just got increasingly dreadful. I ended up listening at 1.5x speed as I wanted to hear the end of the book but also wanted to finish the ordeal of listening!

Good story, awful narrator.

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