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Slow Burn
- The 17th Spider Shepherd Thriller
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Series: Spider Shepherd Thrillers, Book 17
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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The fight against terrorism never ends, and Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is in the front line of Britain's defence against the extremists.
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- mike duxbury
- 27-07-20
Outstanding writing
again this spider shepherd epic story continues this guys life trying to do good, with the world but using violence to make the world a better place. Since the first book (hard landing) dan sheperd has lived through tragedy, loss and hard decisions whilst being well trained in his Military career. The writer simply brings the guy to reality unlike others who try and make the leading role a super hero, i love these books and recommend them to anyone but read them all.
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- Dan
- 16-11-20
Bad editing!
Narrator kept making gross swallowing sounds between sentences. Made me feel sick, this should have been edited out in post production. Lazy editing
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- Ian
- 25-10-20
Not one of the best - disappointed
A stumbling drawn out story with all of the 'action' at the end. never really gripped me as previous books have.
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- MR KJ SMITH
- 14-09-20
Swallowing between lines becomes annoying
Paul Thornley is an excellent narrator. I enjoy the Spider stories and how Paul accents characters in a consistent, believable and meaningful way. But on this recording, between each line, Paul swallows saliva, which can be heard very clearly and after a while becomes extremely annoying. So much so, I've had to give up listening. I would imagine this is down to the engineer and the mic set-up. A real shame on this particular recording.
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- Mrs. Vicky Duman
- 05-03-21
Great read
I love Dan Spider Shepherd books and this audio version didn't disappoint. Go read it!
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- chris h
- 28-02-21
Top notch again !
loved it. stephen leather continues to be my favourite author along with peter james. class
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- G. N. Croft
- 25-01-21
A super surprise
Honestly I thought after a few sentences that I would not really take to this story but was I very wrong.
It is packed with information on current topics and answered and explained without disappointbeing too heavy. I slowed down towards the end to delay finishing.as always Paul thornily does not
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- Robert Jones
- 28-12-20
Horrible intonation
The story is average but the reading is dire. Irritating intonation, inconsistent timing with random pauses, and inaccuracies - someone ‘ran his hair through his hair’. I’ll avoid anything read by Paul Thornley in future.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-11-20
Cool spider strikes again
Absolutely superb book gives a great insight to the work of Mi5 gripped all the way through spider strikes again would definatley recomend
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- colin scotland
- 25-10-20
Brilliant
always great to listen to, great writing, great story, great performance from Paul, looking forward to next one