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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story Teller
- De Dorothy en 09-07-14
De: William Boyd
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The Bone Clocks
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: Jessica Ball, Leon Williams, Colin Mace, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,058
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,631
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,639
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Short Listed, This Time
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: David Mitchell
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The Good Liar
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Searle
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hope the movie is better than the book?
- De S. Smith en 10-17-19
De: Nicholas Searle
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 328
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 288
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 238
In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each, physical violence, racial animosity, the coercion of the weak by the strong all play their part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty, and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is one to get
- De Jeremy en 10-28-14
De: Paul Scott
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Sign of the Cross: A Collins-Burke Mystery, Book 1
- De: Anne Emery
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 252
Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public defender who just wants to represent an upstanding character for a change. A priest with something to hide isn't quite what he had hoped for, but when the literate, arrogant, and tight-lipped Father Brennan Burke is implicated in the strange murder of a young woman, Monty doesn't just take the case - the case takes him. When Burke won't come clean, Monty is forced to play private detective, traveling into his client's past. Things look good for the case until another body is found....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hybrid Mystery
- De connie en 07-31-12
De: Anne Emery
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Topaz
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spy thriller in disguise
- De Shmuel M en 04-14-19
De: Leon Uris
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,012
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 706
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Shattered
- De: Dick Francis
- Narrado por: Fiacre Douglas
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator has flat, almost mechanical voice!
- De Jaegersmum en 05-21-14
De: Dick Francis
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The Danger
- De: Dick Francis
- Narrado por: Tony Britton
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 74
Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci, golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew's caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of victims.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but disturbing
- De oseedee en 06-08-23
De: Dick Francis
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In the First Circle
- De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 31 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 550
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 479
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 477
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps, and almost certain death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the five finest novels written in the 20th Century
- De Ellis D Vener en 04-08-19
De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, y otros
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London Fields
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 168
The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- De Sand en 08-21-14
De: Martin Amis
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Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 141
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
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The Ghost Writer
- A Novel
- De: Robert Harris
- Narrado por: Roger Rees
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 929
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 590
Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too close to the truth?
- De carl801 en 11-24-07
De: Robert Harris
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- De: Charles Cumming
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 88
Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend this little gem
- De Chou Young en 02-14-08
De: Charles Cumming
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Lionel Asbo
- State of England
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 119
Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behaviour Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love .
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jēz...us! Just don't buy it for your Grans.
- De Darwin8u en 01-03-13
De: Martin Amis