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Present Danger

By: Stella Rimington
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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Summary

MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland. From the moment she lands in Belfast, danger follows. She soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious.

Then a source reports strange goings-on at a house on the Irish Sea owned by the Fraternity, an organisation Liz suspects of being a front for renegade former IRA men. Its head is Seamus Piggott, an Irish-American with a gun-running past.

When another informant reports a plot is being hatched against the security forces, Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong suspect Piggott is involved, along with a former French Intelligence officer.

Moving from London to Belfast to the South of France, the latest Stella Rimington Liz Carlyle novel is a propulsive thriller filled with action and nail-biting suspense.

©2009 Stella Rimington (P)2010 WF Howes Ltd

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  • 28-02-11

A bit let down

I listened to the last Book Dead line which I really enjoyed, It had good character development, a good sense of suspense and a feeling that the author really knows what she?s talking about and I think she did. She's on shakier ground with this book however, its not as well researched and the characters did things which just didn't make sense or were just so blindingly obvious, I felt a little insulted as a listener. I don't think I'll be buying any more Stella Rimington?s books.

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Awful narration

Not a bad story per se and whilst the narrator was OK during the general free flow of the story her efforts at characterisation were so poor as to ruin the book for me. Very poor efforts at dialect, accent, intonation and tempo. I didn’t enjoy the book and that was entirely down to the narration.

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  • 02-02-18

Good story ruined by the narrator

What would have made Present Danger better?

Having previously read and enjoyed Stella Rimmington's novels I wished to obtain them by talking boots. The narrator has ruined the experience. There are far better women narrators

What did you like best about this story?

Good paced tale with twists and turns that you would expect

How could the performance have been better?

A different narrator

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

As stated its a quality novel only spoiled by the narrator

Any additional comments?

No

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Great story

Really enjoyed the story line but the narration was wooden and robotic at times which was disappointing

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Don't bother

I was really disappointed as I love spy novels and thought Dame Stella would know her stuff. it was cliché and poorly written with unconvincing characters.
the narrator was awful. I only stuck it out as on a 4 hour train journey.

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Awful narration

What would have been a mediocre story was made almost laudable by the terrible narration. The accents of the various characters sounded more like they were being played by someone who has smoked 40 a day all their life.

Would return the book for a credit if it was more obvious on how to do it. Save yourself a credit and download something else!

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Worth reading

I found Maggie Mash voices irritating. The male voices were dreadful. The Irish accents dreadful. Her choice of voices for the British agents were poor …. One of the agents just spoke very slowly!
Difficult to listen to although the story was interesting.

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Unintentionally quite funny

No plot to speak of, completely undeveloped stereotype characters, author either ran out of time or lost interest. But worth it for the dialogue and narration - a few genuinely laugh-out-loud moments.

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Terrible narrator

The storyline is as always engrossing, but Maggie Mash is just awful She is poor at any accent other than her own - and there are lots of Irish, French and American accents to master !

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Not bad but not good enough to love it

I’ve read (and listened to) a lot in this genre and unfortunately Present Danger is just a bit shallow. I didn’t care enough about the characters to really care who lived or died...primarily because I didn’t feel the writer developed them enough. Therefore there wasn’t a huge level of excitement and build-up which you’d expect in this kind of thriller. I’d expected a lot, given the author’s background, but it just didn’t do it for me.

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