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The Exphoria Code

By: Antony Johnston
Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
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Brigitte Sharp is a brilliant but haunted young MI6 hacker. When she decodes encrypted online messages, which she believes are connected to her best friend's murder, Bridge uncovers evidence of a mole inside a top secret Anglo-French military drone project.

Forced back into the field by MI6, after three years desk-bound and in therapy, she discovers that the truth behind the Exphoria code is far worse than she could have imagined. Soon she's on the run, desperate and alone, as a nuclear terrorist plot unfolds around her....

©2017 Antony Johnston (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Action & Adventure Espionage Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Military Suspense

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Anthony Johnston

About the author


Antony Johnston is a New York Times bestselling writer and podcaster. The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde is based on his graphic novel; his Brigitte Sharp thrillers are critically acclaimed; and Dead Space, his first videogame, redefined its genre. He also hosts the podcast Writing and Breathing.

Antony’s books, graphic novels, and videogames include The Tempus Project.Daredevil, Shang-Chi, Shadow of Mordor, the ALEX RIDER graphic novels, the adaptation of Alan Moore's ‘lost screenplay’' Fashion Beast, and more.

He lives and works in England.

Yolanda Kettle

About the performer


Yolanda Kettle is an actress and voiceover artist. Her work in theatre includes the revival of Plenty by David Hare at Chichester, Oil at The Almeida and The Deep Blue Sea at the National. She has appeared in productions at the Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Young Vic and West End.

Her screen work includes Roadkill for the BBC, Made In Italy, The Crown, Marcella for ITV, Howards End and Love, Nina.

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Initially I thought the story was a bit slow, but it needed to set the stage. Stay with it, it gets better and evolves into a complex mode day spy story with some clever twists. Well narrated.

Slow start, but excellent story line.

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This book was gripping from the start. Loved it. the narration brought the characters alive and along with the superb description from the author I felt like I was experiencing what the characters did.

Plot was excellent and the protagonist a strong female made an uplifting change in this genre.

Will look for other books by this author now.

Best book of the year

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An excellent story, well read and with a likeable heroine.
Very relevant subject matter in these times.

Good yarn

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It’s really well performed and I enjoyed it. Sometimes it got confusing with the way the story jumped back and forth and all the acronyms.

So many twists and turns

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Really, really good and intriguing listen. Highly recommended for hours of a story that gives you everything...

Highly recommended

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Do *not* listen to this if youre into IT at all. Many of the things in it just irritate.

Why the hell would you use a stupid ASCII art method to communicate secret data, when PGP is available on any system, and there are far better ways of doing the same thing. And the finale makes *no* sense from a tech viewpoint. Performance OK, story, not so much.

Avoid.

OK, but not great.

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Good tale, well told, far too drawn out though. Could have been 50% shorter and still have said it all twice and again for luck!!

Goodish

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I have enjoyed this book but (there’s always a “but”), it was rather too long winded in the technical computing and technological passages. I am tech savvy but numerous aspects left me cold. Also, they didn’t lend much to the story, more like a self indulgent ramble by the author.

Enjoyable

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Not a bad story at all. A little slow to got going as the author laid out the background, but not bad at all. Quite technical, quite interested and modern. The only thing that irked me ever so slightly was the whole premise for discovery of the code was technically wrong, as the author confused fixed length message signing, with variable length message encryption. That said, he got everything else right, so only a small thing.

Quite a good story

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Really enjoyed the twists and turns in this story of a world I know little about but can see that it is a world we are heading for.

Would recommend this..

Loved this book

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