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Soft Target

Soft Target, Book 1

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Soft Target

By: Conrad Jones
Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
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Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books - crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen!

Soft Target is the first book in a series of thrillers that follow the hunt for a nefarious killer. The book begins in famous US tourist destinations where suicide bombers cause carnage before attacking the United Kingdom.

©2008 Conrad Jones (P)2014 Conrad Jones Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Iran Middle East
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I am two hours or so into this book and I’m already ready to slit my wrists.
I’m finding it very difficult to focus on the story, the narration is just abysmal … not sure I am strong enough to see it out.

GOD, where did they find this awful narrator?

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A good story ruined by terrible narration. The narrator couldn't do any of the accents.

awful narration

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Great story but the various English accents and town names were way off the mark. The narrator would have been better keeping to his American accent and letting the listener use their imagination

The accent just didn't do it

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I did not manage to listen to one chapter as the narration was too slow and boring. The accent was atrocious, why on earth use an American to read an English book. Just no right. I am so disappointed because I brought all five in the series as I have previously read them and found each book excellent. But there is no way I can listen to them. Waste of money.

Could not listen to it.

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I nearly gave up on this audiobook after just a few chapters as I couldn't stand the narration. As I was interested in the story I decided to change speed to 1.5 and put up with the grating voice, awful accents and mispronunciation but I wish they'd employed a British narrator or an American who was good at accents and understood British English or who just read the book without bothering with accents as that would have been easier to stomach than the preposterous attempt this narrator made at English regional and Irish accents. I'm afraid it detracted so much from the story that at the end of it I wasn't really sure how good the novel really was. If the same reader is used for the rest of Conrad Jones's novels I'm going to have to decline to continue with the series. Not an enjoyable experience.

Terrible narrator

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