The Vault
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The Vault
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Mark Dawson
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West Berlin, 1986.
The Cold War has not yet thawed, political tensions inspire bloody retribution and trust is a rare commodity - even amongst allies.
Harry Mackintosh is the head of MI6’s Berlin Station. When four of his best field agents are murdered by the Stasi during a failed defection operation, he has no choice but to respond. East German intelligence has become increasingly ruthless. MI6 has been overrun. Mackintosh knows that he won’t be able to fight back, unless he’s provided with a new kind of operative.
London.
Belfast-born Jimmy Walker is a career criminal, desperate to leave the world of organised crime behind. He’s made just enough money to think about going straight. He wants to be a family man. He wants to stay alive for his wife and son. He wants to be the man they deserve.
He reluctantly agrees to one final job with the intention that it will be his last.
Little does Jimmy know that he’s been set-up. The sins of his past are about to catch up with him.
Framed, arrested and imprisoned, Jimmy is about to become a pawn in the politics, corruption and underground conflicts of Europe. Mackintosh appears in Jimmy’s Scotland Yard cell and makes him an offer. Go to Berlin to serve Queen and Country and he will be pardoned. The alternative? A life behind bars. Jimmy has no choice but to accept. He infiltrates East Berlin and, operating under cover as an arms buyer for the IRA, he works his way to the heart of the Stasi machine until he locates the defector. But all is not as it seems. Mackintosh has an ulterior motive. So does Jimmy. Neither man can trust the other and, as their objectives clash, it looks as if only one of them is going to get out alive.
Set in divided Berlin at a pivotal moment in history, and soaked in '80s nostalgia, The Vault is a thrilling adventure set in Mark Dawson’s million-selling Group Fifteen world.
Featuring: Atilla Akinci, Laila Alj Philip Arditti, Kieran Brown, Ben Cartwright, Stephen Critchlow, Vera Filatova, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Gerran Howell, David Menkin, Colin Morgan, Harry Myers, Erich Redman, Mac Keith Roach, Lizzie-Aaryn Stanton and David Thorpe.
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Mark Dawson has drawn wonderful characters in The Vault that you really believe in and I was totally rooting for Jimmy. Action-packed and full of thrilling twists and turns, you'll find yourself walking around the block so that you can keep on listening!
- Frances, Audible Editor
About the author
Mark Dawson is a prolific thriller writer best known for his espionage hero John Milton. Born in 1973 in the seaside town of Lowestoft, Dawson embarked on a career as a lawyer while writing in his spare time. Discovering independent self-publishing, Dawson made his name through e-books and forged a direct connection to his readership.
Dawson has entered into a strong partnership with Audible, who produce exclusive audiobooks of the Milton series; 2018’s Twelve Days being the fifteenth adventure. His Beatrix Rose spin-off series features a female assassin working for a government kill squad, with several Audible audiobook adaptations available. Beginning with White Devil in 2015, other releases include 2019’s Tempest.
About the performer
Colin Morgan's theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer For My Daughter, Vernon God Little (Young Vic) and All About My Mother (The Old Vic).
Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and The Dead, The Fall and Merlin.
His film credits include The Happy Prince, Legend, Testament of Youth, Island and Waiting for You.
About the performer
Born in Ghana and raised in Surrey, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is an Olivier award-winning stage and screen actor and audiobook narrator. A teenage curiosity about acting grew into a resolution that nothing else would do. Early television roles were in shows as diverse as Little Britain and Judge John Deed. He has been seen on the big screen in Paddington 2, Mary Poppins Returns and super-hero movies Justice League and Doctor Strange.
On stage, he has appeared at the National, the Globe, the Young Vic and the National Theater of Korea in works by August Wilson, Bertolt Brecht and Tom Stoppard as well as Sophocles and Shakespeare. In 2019 Holdbrook-Smith won the Olivier Award for Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Ike Turner in TINA: The Tina Turner Musical.
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is the regular narrator of Ben Aaronvitch’s Rivers of London series and is now synonymous with the series. He also contributed to Audible’s Dickens Collection with his performance of Nicholas Nickleby and has also read several other titles. His voice is often heard on Radio 4, appearing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service opposite Toby Stephens’ James Bond, and as John the Disciple in Judas.
Behind the scenes of The Vault
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Tension double agent lies surprise
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Different
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What really let this down was post production / editing. The worst was varying audio volume, one moment people were talking to quietly you'd have to turn the volume up to hear them, then the narrator would come on at full volume. The only way to listen to this book is to constantly adjust the volume. There were a few random bits of silence that made me wonder if the book was still playing. Someone really needs to take this through post production again and fix these issues, they really ruin the moment.
Great story, good dramatisation, awful editing
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