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Fortunes of War
- The Sentinels, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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During the financial devastation of the 1920-'30, a group of German Industrialist assume control of their government by supporting Hitler and his Nazi Party's rise to power. Goals of nationalism turn in a quest for global Aryan supremacy, leading a world to war. In 1943, the Sentinels learn of an attempt by the same industrialists to smuggle their "Fortunes of War" out of Germany before the Allied forces invade. Fearing the wealth will be used to finance the organization of a Fourth German Reich, the Six Sentinels gather together in an effort to prevent the Germans from achieving their goal. The story escalates at every turn, and allows the listener to ride "side-saddle" with the principal characters for more than two years, as the battle of opposing conflict is waged over two continents. Intrigue, danger, romance, disappointment, trust, and betrayal are never very far away.
Originally published in 2009, under the genre "historical thriller, fiction”, Fortunes of War remained atop Amazon and Barnes and Noble's best sellers list for two years. It is the first book in what will be a continuing series that pits the resourceful problem solving efforts of the Sentinels against those who abuse the privileges of free-enterprise in the quest of their self-serving agendas.
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Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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breathy over-actor tarnishes an OK story
- By reader on 05-11-20
By: David Ignatius
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Triple
- A Novel
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Raza Jaffrey
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 526
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 521
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Triple poorly performed
- By Jpop on 03-13-21
By: Ken Follett
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Manhattans and Murder
- The Murder, She Wrote Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
- Narrated by: Beth Porter
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 596
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4 out of 5 stars 545
Promoting her latest books brings best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher to New York for Christmas. Her schedule includes book signings, chat-show appearances, department store shopping...and murder. But it all begins with a sidewalk Santa staring at Jessica with fear and recognition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A release of an older Donald Bain book in the series, thank goodness
- By Dorise on 02-01-19
By: Jessica Fletcher, and others
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The Pirate
- By: Harold Robbins
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
In a raging sandstorm, two men with their pregnant wives fatefully meet in the desert: Samir Al Fay, a Muslim doctor whose son will be named heir to the Prince of Beirut; and Isaiah Ben Ezra, a grizzled Jewish militant Zionist heading to the Promised Land. The women give birth - Samir's unconscious wife delivers a stillborn girl, Ben Ezra's wife dies delivering a healthy boy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little dated
- By Phil Fleming on 10-02-20
By: Harold Robbins
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Topaz
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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
- By Shmuel M on 04-14-19
By: Leon Uris
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 811
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 728
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 721
France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- By Linda Hanson on 01-11-16
By: Alex Gerlis
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The Good Liar
- A Novel
- By: Nicholas Searle
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 163
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4 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?
- By S. Smith on 10-17-19
By: Nicholas Searle
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- By: Charles Cumming
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 96
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 95
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
- By Chou Young on 02-14-08
By: Charles Cumming
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A Carrion Death
- Introducing Detective Kubu
- By: Michael Stanley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 267
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4 out of 5 stars 130
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour - no body, no case. But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hot and Arid
- By Robert on 11-06-08
By: Michael Stanley
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Taking Morgan
- A Political Thriller
- By: David Rose
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 51
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unrealistic
- By Coverdale on 08-09-22
By: David Rose
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The Other Side of Midnight
- By: Sidney Sheldon
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece, an innocent American becomes a pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. Catherine Douglas is a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star, while Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sheldon being Sheldon
- By Marise Gonzalez Doty on 09-25-24
By: Sidney Sheldon
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Eichmann in My Hands
- A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner
- By: Peter Z. Malkin, Harry Stein
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story5 out of 5 stars 73
In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street - and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there - was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story - from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent the first person account
- By Barrett Francescatti on 02-09-22
By: Peter Z. Malkin, and others
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On Wings of Eagles
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Marcia Hyde, Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 909
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 700
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 691
When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
- By Tammy on 06-19-08
By: Ken Follett
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Privileged Information
- Alan Gregory, Book 1
- By: Stephen White
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4 out of 5 stars 180
Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist with a thriving practice in Boulder, Colorado. His life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Gregory. He launches a psychological and personal quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and Gregory suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved. Lacking facts but roused by suspicion and troubled by seemingly random acts of terror around him, Gregory starts to fear for the safety of the people he loves. The question of the inviolability of confidential disclosures made to Gregory by his patients - privileged information - becomes crucial as the psychologist pursues an unsettling romance with Lauren Crowder, a lovely deputy district attorney investigating one of the deaths. Bound to silence, Gregory follows the psychological tracks of someone he fears may be a cunning and disturbed killer, while turning to his enigmatic but supportive partner, Diane Estevez, for counsel, and to his tart-tongued female urologist neighbor for support. The sinister, surprising drama unfolds against Boulder's Rocky Mountain backdrop, in the arresting natural beauty of Aspen, and in the midst of a baroque Halloween costume party in downtown Boulder. Finally, in a lonely mountain lodge enshrouded in menace, the story comes to its breathtaking climax.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Four and a half stars, actually....
- By karen on 10-11-13
By: Stephen White
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Layover in Dubai
- A Novel
- By: Dan Fesperman
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4 out of 5 stars 149
Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall. But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dubai Dubai Doo
- By itinerant on 02-14-12
By: Dan Fesperman
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- Mark
- 02-14-23
Complex but enjoyable
I am neither a reader of historical fiction nor of the Nazi regime, yet I enjoyed getting caught up in the storyline. It was a very complex plot line that sometimes caused me confusion, but I enjoyed the development of the six sentinels. There were times it seemed to move too fast and times it seemed to move too slowly, but the complexities of the time, geography, and character development caused some confusion throughout. Having said that, I enjoyed it, and got caught up in the six characters.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Elle
- 05-23-23
Fun way to try out historical fiction
This book was a fun foray into historical fiction. That's not normally my genre, but the summary was intriguing, and so I decided to give it a try!
The six international characters working together to try and change the tide of the war was a great premise. I also liked that the characters didn't feel painfully old fashioned - they were appropriate to the historical setting but they still felt like actual, regular people, not just historical cliches. The narrators use of various accents in the audiobook helped bring this international crew to life!
All in all, a solid book that was an enjoyable deviation from my usual genres.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Geneva.Bookdiary
- 07-28-23
History & Espionage
Let me start by saying it sounds super interesting the espionage the spy the set back in history Hitler times. The blurb had me interested in trying a new genre.
As I stated this isn’t my usual genre the history type so I’m so glad I tried it on Audio the narrator was good but I did have to have the speed pretty high at 1.7x because at normal speed it felt way too slow.
It’s a slow book about espionage & if you like historical books with a dash of romance you would enjoy it.
Some parts felt like I needed more details instead of the ok well this happened and that’s done now. Overall a good book just not my typical reads.
Thank you to the publisher for the Audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
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