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The Runner
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series.
Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals.
One day she goes out for a coffee run from the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered, and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth....
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- J. Grant
- 06-02-20
Great story, poor narration
Story is as excellent as one would expect from Stephen Leather
The narration was awful, I don’t think Laura Kirman has ever heard a man speak...or at least that’s what it seems like from hearing her impression of one. Also - did no one hear her say Carbine the first time around and correct her?
This next point isn’t a slight on the quality of the narration but this story is meant to be set in the same universe as the Dan Shepherd novels narrated by Paul Thornley but the voice acting was so far from what the listener is used to that it doesn’t feel like it when you’re listening. I understand that when reading the books it wouldn’t be a problem but, when listening to the audiobooks, you get used you a set of voices for Charlotte Button and Major Gannon etc; you build up an image and your own idea of a person which is then thrown completely out of the window when they’ve gone from sounding like a privately-educated Home Counties born major to a south Londoner (for example)
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- Charlesm
- 08-02-20
great book..... good narrator
Had to listen drove really slowly everywhere just to hear more.
Other people didn't rate the narrator, I thought she had a great voice.
hopefully more of Sally soon.
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- Mrs. Vicky Duman
- 26-04-20
Stephen Leather at his best!
This was my first ever Audible book and I absolutely loved it. Bring it on!
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- julie panther
- 01-10-20
the runner
I really did not enjoy this book one bit I tried to get it to it but I just couldn't it eas all over the place not for me
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- Mark
- 28-02-20
Awful Narration & Little Annoying Details
Ditto to everyone's comments regarding the farcical narration. The story was interesting so I suffered through it...
I'm now at the stage with Mr Leather's books that I'm finishing off sentences.
I mean, does EVERYONE drink Evian Water????? Do they have "old acne scars", do they "drink deeply"??? And on and on and on...
In this story they had the guy's number so why didn't they get his Missus to call him - I don't want to give the game away but the Editor should be a lot more thorough. That said there are not as many clangers as there used to be.
Pull this awful version and get Thornally to narrate it!
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- RL
- 21-02-20
Heckler & coke anyone!
The narration really let a great story down, pronunciation of key word carbine (carbeeen) and heckler & Koch (coke) are just 2 examples.
Maybe a re-release with the great Paul Thornley voicing the male characters with Laura kirkman handling the narrative & lead female voice, obviously with pronunciation coaching
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- "patto89"
- 12-01-21
enjoyed the story but not the performance.
I enjoyed the story but the voices for the male characters (and there are mostly male characters) are terrible, especially the bad attempt at a northerner. Also, what the flip is a car bean? I'm guessing she means carbine but the way she pronounces it is really distracting, someone should have told her! Fortunately the performance wasn't so bad that it ruined the story, just could have been better.
This is the first Stephen Leather book I've listened too/ 'read', I'll probably check out his others!
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- Russ C
- 21-04-20
excellent listen
really enjoyed this story. get engrossed in the characters as the story moves through the gears.
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- John Marsden
- 24-01-20
The Runner
Another brilliant read from the master! I really enjoyed this fast moving, all action book, The characters are almost believable and a few old faces turn up to play their part. I read this book inside a day, it is absorbing edge of the seat stuff and I highly recommend it to anyone. I've not heard this reader before but she does a really good job.
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- RDC
- 11-05-20
Great story, butchered by the narrator
Stephen leather spins a good yarn and this book is no exception.
Unfortunately the narrator is horrible and ruins it. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get through to end and may well end up reading it instead.
She is not fluent and puts emphasis in the wrong places to completely change the meaning. She also makes it sound likes she’s reading a children’s story on jackanory for a bunch of five year olds. She makes the characters sound completely stupid.
I love Stephen leather but would seriously recommend you read this rather than listen to it unless they change the narrator.
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