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Stay Alive

By: Simon Kernick
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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About this listen

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds, Siege, and Ultimatum.

One witness

You’re on a trip with your family, miles from anywhere. A shot rings out - and your whole life changes in an instant.

One secret

A woman is racing towards you, chased by three gunmen. Although you don’t know it, she harbours a deadly secret. She’s in terrible danger. And now you are, too.

No escape

You’re running, terrified, desperate to find safety. You know that the men hunting you have killed before. And if they catch you, you’ll be next.…

©2014 Simon Kernick (P)2013 Random House Audiobooks Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Exciting

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"Brilliant" ( Sunday Mirror)
"Hang on tight!" ( Harlen Coben)
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I enjoyed the author's book Last Ten Seconds so knew his style would probably be a pacy thriller that takes the listener on a roller-coaster experience. However after a gripping start and intriguing early chapters the present story descends into just too many situations of jeopardy, bodies piling up and lonely parts of the Highlands of Scotland apparently inhabited by Russian gangsters, paedophiles, corrupt policemen, hit men and gun-totting grannies. There's little in the way of character-development and no respite from action. I think the story needed a few quiet interludes to slacken the relentless pace. It's all a bit too macho for my taste, though the narrator does a great job and must have been exhausted by the end!

Overly frenetic thriller

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Ever feel that when it rains it pours? I do like Simon Kernick, but some times he makes it so hard for the reader to fall into his world.

A little spoiler alert here.

Imagine having a rubbish life. Your parents are dead and you've been stuck in abusing foster care since you can remember. Then, finally, you are placed with new "parents" who actually seem very nice. You think everything is fine until, one day, you're out on a pleasant family trip when suddenly your new guardians get killed too. Terrific.

Then you find yourself chased by a Russian mafia boss's hench men. Great.

Then you're chase and attacked by dogs. Wow.

Then when you think you're finally safe, you find yourself locked in a room alone with an aged, perverted old man. Really?

Then to top it all you're almost strangled to death by someone you trust. Come on...

You're then taken to yet another predators house...I'd give up.

All this and you're just two sisters trying to get on in life.

Even though they seem to consistently jump out of the fire into the frying pan, then another frying pan, then another frying pan etc, and I did find myself shaking my head in disbelief, I did actually enjoy the story. I have certainly heard worse. I've also heard better.





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Would you listen to Stay Alive again? Why?

No i never listen to the same book twice

What did you like best about this story?

Very easy to listen to and follow.

Which character – as performed by Paul Thornley – was your favourite?

Scope

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no just enjoyed listening

Any additional comments?

Bit far fetched in places be still a good story.

great easy listening

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Much enjoyed book. good flow to the story. Would recommend. Looking for another Kernick book to listen to straight away. Decent narrator also.

good book.

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Once more the partnership of Simon Kernick and narrator Paul Thornley have made a very exciting Audible listen . Simon is an excellent writer a, his plots are well planned and truly thrilling . Paul Thornley brings it all to life . He is the very best narrator on Audible . Excellent entertainment.

A must listen

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