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Plan for Chaos

By: John Wyndham
Narrated by: Michael Obiora
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In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks identical to the victims, too—and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race....

©2009 John Wyndham (P)2022 Audible, Ltd Dystopian Science Fiction Fiction
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Interesting take of world could be considering when it was written! 1950’s and I’m listening to it 2024!
It has the background to a Bond villain threat lol

Good listen

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The story is very much of its time but mitigated by the occasional flashes of profundity and prescience that always characterise John Wyndham’s writing. However, if you want to read this book you should choose another method. The narration sounds like a child learning to read or somebody speaking English very slowly and clearly for the benefit of a non-English speaker. There is no fluency and the stresses repeatedly fall on the wrong parts of words and sentences. If you want to read about recreated Nazis I suggest you try ‘Boys from Berlin’. Equally unlikely but a lot shorter!

Of its time

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Excellent performance by Michael Obiora couldn't make up for the so-so story, not so great characters and juddering plot.

Perhaps unsurprising that this never got published in Wyndham 's lifetime.

Nevertheless it's an interesting cultural artefact channeling the fears of Naxi resurgence that must have been extant in the middle of the 20th century.

avoid unless you're a Wyndham completist

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another good Wyndham story this time the pesky Germans are up to there old trick's, very entertaining.

good story

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The narrator was so off putting, if someone else had narrated it, I’m sure I would have loved it but all of his accents were appalling.

Good story

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