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The Jonah

By: James Herbert
Narrated by: Damian Lynch
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Half light. The shadow of his past was always with him. But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.

Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake. It's his past, his future, his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others.

James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.

Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant best-seller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.

©1981 James Herbert (P)2013 Audible Ltd Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Fiction Haunted Exciting

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Detective Jim Kelso, voiced by narrator Damian Lynch with a charming, everyman quality, is sent to a small coastal town to investigate how an average local family almost lost their lives from taking LSD. Lynch amps up the pace and tension as Kelso discovers the existence of a dangerous organization and begins to piece together the terrifying secret of the Jonah. Listeners will find themselves at the edge of their seats and unable to tear themselves away from this audiobook as Kelso edges closer and closer to the truth.
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i had read a lot of James Herbert's work. i enjoy the eay he writes as his characters are always well developed.

up to standard

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Great story,but sadly let down a bit by narrator.. ... .seemed to be read sentance by sentance,instead of flowing paragraphs.
Would love to hear this read by someone with better narration qualities

Another great from JH

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Okay first off the narration, Damien Lynch did the VA for Herbert's Fluke and it worked but his voice isn't imo sutable fir more serious works. To me he always sounds like he is reading us a children's story.
The story itself is full of incorrect information, specially when he talks about narcotics. You would think an author of this calibre would research and fact check.
The entire tale I was predicting what was going to happen next and 9 times out of ten I was correct. The sex scenes were just cringe.
One of Herbert's weaker efforts.

Predictable & Factually Incorrect.

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This was a superb read with another climatic paranormal ending. Distrust, horror, sympathy and sadness for our Jonah hero. 😃👍

Splendid thriller/horror

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classic James Herbert with all the twists and Turns you would expect James was an amazing author and is still to this day sorely missed by me I have all of his books and found each one to be magnificently different whilst still showing his charisma and spirit and the time and effort it took to write the books.

simply amazing classic James Herbert. 10/10

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