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The Cobra

By: Frederick Forsyth
Narrated by: John Chancer
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From international best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth comes a chilling new mystery.

The cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil across Western society, causing incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading and it is a blight which must be stopped.

One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task. At his disposal is anything he wants – men, resources, money. And he will not stop until he has completed his mission.

Up to now, the drugs trade has been accustomed to world governments attempting to curtail their criminal activities. But up to now, those governments have played by the rules. And that is about to change. The rules no longer apply. A dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier....

Frederick Forsyth is the author of 11 best-selling novels, including The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol, The Fist of God, Icon, Avenger and The Afghan.

A complete and unabridged reading by John Chancer.

©2010 Frederick Forsyth (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Espionage War

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This is a perfect Forsyth. It was great and I needed to know what was going to happen. More Forsyth audio for me

A wonderful listen

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Entertaining Book special stuff about the drug trade. I would recommend it to those how are interested about how american government is fighting drug trafficking in to the US.

Entertaining with interesting Information

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A decent yarn, marred by some fudging of geopolitical situations and laws, and Forsyth's usual wince inducing blindspots around POCs. Mostly pretty rollicking as usual though.

Reader is pretty good, nice voice, but really needs to learn to pronounce non-English words if he's going to read stuff like this.

Not quite up to classic Forsyth

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Well narrated and an excellent story. It's a little different to many books in that it's doesn't hinge on a main character.
It seems very plausible and seems really well researched.
Perfect to listen to on the commute to work.
This book would probably appeal more to men I think, because there's a lot of geeky description of guns, airplanes etc.

A fictional battle against the cocaine trade.

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Complex details of technical specifics but not a great deal of story or at least characters that leapt out from the page. I got the feeling Frederick Forsyth had to meet contract conditions and churned this out. I really like his books usually and found this a hard one to get into as I think the narrator did too as his phrasing was sometimes amiss. Others might really enjoy this with it’s details but it wasn’t anywhere close to his best for me.

It had it’s moments

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