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Icebreaker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: James Bond: The Collection, Book 41
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-07-21
Weak story.
Very poor story. Should have been so much better.. Avoid this like the plague
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- Rob Crosbie
- 18-11-20
Bond Vs the fourth reich
Another entertaining Bond-Gardner read brought to life by Vance's narration.
When Bond gets dragged into an operation with the KGB, CIA and other agencies to take down a new terrorist threat you can expect lots of double agents.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-20
Silly plot
Corny. Ridiculous story. Double crosses and triple crosses. Women who all sound exactly the same.
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- SoMrHarris
- 10-07-19
Chilling!
John Gardner really finds his inner Fleming with Icebreaker, and Simon Vance's narration is (as always) superb! A really good Bond story, great villain, plenty of twists, and a story that could well be set in 2019!
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- Darren Harrison
- 27-10-15
Recommend without reservation
Any additional comments?
Bravo to Brilliance Audio and Audible for bringing a set of the John Gardner 007 series to audiobook. I greatly enjoyed revisiting “Icebreaker” and Simon Vance’s narration was (as always) first-rate. The plot that sees James Bond tackle a former SS officer neo-Nazi with dreams of a new Reich takes 007 to Finland and includes a thrilling encounter with a snowplow (villains are always searching for a new and inventive way to dispatch our hero) and a particularly brutal ice torture. “Icebreaker” also includes one of my favorite of the literary heroines in Paula Vacker, and a complete set of rounded secondary characters.
As regards the series, many of these have already appeared in audiobook form such as “Nobody Lives Forever,” “Scorpius”, “Never Send Flowers”, “Death is Forever”, “SeaFire” and “Cold” (most in an abridged form, though “Cold” has appeared in both abridged and unabridged) but to my knowledge this is the first time that “Icebreaker” has appeared in the format. Of course Gardner’s first two “Licence Renewed” and “For Special Services” were handled capably by Jeremy Northam a few years back (both excellent I might add if you see them for sale I would recommend them), and the two novelizations (“Licence to Kill” and “Goldeneye” both received capable releases previously), but the realization that I had an opportunity to own the complete set led me to quickly add all of them to my cart or wish list.
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- UMFJ
- 19-11-21
Another enjoyable story
This was another enjoyable story. The narration is great as it has been in other stories.
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- J.B.
- 23-10-19
Not Fleming.
Simon Vance was excellent as always, but the story was less than great. Try Forever And a Day.