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The Fox
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fox by Frederick Forsyth.
The 18th novel from best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, the man who defined the genre.
The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18-year-old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.
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"Forsyth is a magnificent storyteller." (Daily Mail)
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- Simon
- 21-09-18
Not Quite Such a Cunning Fox!
For once, with this author, when a publisher puts extravagant claims in their blurb it's hard to argue. Frederick Forsyth has written some of the all-time thriller greats so deserves the ultimate respect. They suggest he defined the thriller genre so is he still at the leading edge all these years later? He certainly throws a lot at this book to make it up to date and relevant with everything from Novichok to computer hacking being cast into the mix!
For me David Rintoul was more the star here with his superbly smooth narration which I always enjoy. The story itself relies on the now well-used super teenage hacker who can do things that no-one else can and in fact the first way they use his skills made me smile. However, I never felt that the characters came to life and the story was a fairly repetitive re-hash of the same thing happening in different ways.
It still felt that it had some of Forsyth's classy writing and one or two of the various secret service types made for good characters so with that excellent narration it's certainly not bad but Forsyth is no cyber security expert and this won't go down as one of his greatest hits.
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- susan
- 29-09-18
Don't Waste a Credit
This is a truly badly written book, and then he suddenly lost his skill??? Sadly Frederick Forsyth has lost his skill.
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- Watcher
- 25-10-19
Just brilliant
Well researched and topical story which is quite believable. An excellent book which I could not put down
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- Robert Precious
- 24-09-18
Good story.
Very up to date plausible,well told and always interesting.Absorbing read.i listened to it all through in two sittings. Unstoppable.
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- gary round
- 19-10-20
1st Class
An excellent story,and fabulous narration i would expect nothing less from the master, Frederick Forsyth.
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- Cannylad
- 10-06-22
Second Sight
What a great pity this book wasn't compulsory bedtime reading for the western worlds political leaders on its release in 2018..
Brilliant story and perfectly narrated.
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- Chris Mitchison
- 16-03-22
In 2022 - almost prescient.
Fits where it touches. Entertaining, informative and involving read. Well worth it. Enjoy and remember.
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- Sarah Kench
- 27-06-21
cracking story
a good yarn rattled along read very well just what was needed for a long journey
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- Brian D
- 03-03-21
Excellent story
A very good audible presentation well worth acquiring. It was beautifully told and presented I am looking forward to the next on
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- Hamish Lambert
- 15-12-20
A good story, but not one of his best...
A good story, narrated well, but not one of Forsyth's better ones. Well worth a listen though.
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- Alex
- 21-09-18
Disappointing effort from a capable author
I view FF as a really capable author, which is why I'm so disappointed with this book. All the contemporary aspects of this book rang hollow. He still did a good job on the traditional aspects of it, e.g. tradecraft and the overall plot. But it fell apart in a few critical areas:
Technology - for a book about hacking, the tech side of it needs to be at least passable. In this book the tech is so wrong that it's just nonsense.
The Ending - Without putting any spoliers in, if you're Frederick Forsyth it is not okay to have an ending that a high school student would get in trouble for.
Contemporary Characters - This is more of a minor gripe, but there were a couple of times when a character was given some really old-fashioned stereotypical traits that just felt disconnected from reality. Also, FF decided to put Trump in the book (which is fine), but for plot reasons he couldn't make him live up to his reputation. It would have been so easy to have omitted the direct reference to "the president's book, the Art of the Deal", and not have had that contradiction. It's just sloppy.
As far as the performance went, at the start I found the narrator's accents a bit jarring, other than that it was okay.
To sum it up, I think FF did the bare minimum and is relying on his reputation to sell this.
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- peter
- 15-07-21
Entertaining
FF seemed a bit careless at times in this one ; not as tight a narrative as other works and even some quite lame and inappropriate romance. Plus the unnecessary and biased political comments that frankly made me doubt this authors overall veracity.But definitely entertaining and just disappointed there wasn’t more dimension to the story and more details of the actual hacking on which the entire narrative hangs.
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- mvwijland
- 08-08-19
Love the narrator
The story is great, although the hacking part is a byline, hardly explained. But the idea of the story is well crafted. Love the details, political viewpoints on issues.
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- Chad Morrison
- 03-05-19
Interesting lead, failure in execution.
The leading character Sir Adrian Western had me looking forward to future books, but the ending in this novel made me think of a student hitting a word limit in an academic essay. Well read by the narrator.
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- Mr. R. A. Forrest
- 17-12-18
A lively romp, but a but clunky...
Really enjoyed this story with all the ingredients of a good espionage tale. But, thinly veiled references to current government members, and a professor Baron Cohen were faintly ridiculous. David Rintoul's sonorous reading gave extra gravitas that the narrative really needed. His soft Scottish accent had echoes of the Flemming readings he has done. A pleasure to listen to. I say listen, have fun and enjoy. It's like a movie you are glad you watched, but really don't take away too much and will probably never watch again.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-18
Truly fantastic!!
Frederick Forsyth is a master writer and this book is further proof of his excellence!!