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The Paris Agent
- De: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 662
Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerfully moving story
- De Jennifer Greenfield en 07-28-23
- The Paris Agent
- De: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney
Not Kelly's best
Revisado: 04-03-25
I am a huge Kelly Rimmer fan for two reasons. The first is the stories themselves. I am a guy and i know that a lot of guys don't often go for stories like Kelly writes but I have a big soft spot for stories where people, especially woman and children, overcome adversity. Most of the stories I listen to are mysteries or thrillers and I don't listen to many stories like Kelly's but I do listen to her because she is exceptional. I have a spreadsheet where I have rated the hundreds of books I have listened to, hundreds, and Kelly's stories are rated higher than almost any others.
The second reason that I like Kelly's books is because of the social ethics and morals. It is getting harder and harder to find books where i am really comfortable with the social ethics. I have stopped listening to many authors whose stories I like because of ridiculous explicit sex that adds nothing the plot or development of the story or because the author is pushing their world view on the reader. I find new authors are less likely to push their political/social opinions because they don't want to lose half the buying public right from the start. But I have listened to authors who hit it big then later started to use their books as a way to push their world view.
This book is a good story in some ways. The spy/intrigue parts pretty good but these were a relatively small part of the book. The soft/relationship parts, where Kelly often excels, were disappointing but perhaps this was all she had to work with since the book was partly based on real life. The relationships are so so with nothing exceptional with the exception of the woman who leaves her child. She was exceptional but the rest were just fighting the war.
As far as the ethics/social aspects of the book go, where i typically really like Kelly, she disappointed me by pushing her beliefs on a social issue. I give her some credit for not shoving it down the readers throat like some authors but she does gently nudge the reader towards her views this social issue and it is plain that this is Kelly's view since she acknowledges in the prologue that the social/family life of the character was fiction and not based on fact.
I am very sad to say that I have lost yet another author to read, especially this one, as I really like Kelly. I just can't risk the possibility of hearing another social opinion in a future book, especially since I read Kelly partly to help make me feel better about the world, not worse.
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The Nowhere Man Part 2
- An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 2)
- De: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Who is THE NOWHERE MAN? He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home when he was young, Evan was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can’t Wait For The Next Installment!
- De MeMi en 09-03-24
- The Nowhere Man Part 2
- An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 2)
- De: Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great book
Revisado: 11-09-23
This was a typically great orphan x book. I never leave reviews and I listen to lots of books but this was so good I thought I should say something.
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21 Ecclesiastes: What's the Point?
- De: Skip Heitzig
- Narrado por: Skip Heitzig
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon delves into the hard issues of life, and attempts to find satisfactory answers that avert despair. Pastor Skip Heitzig examines Solomon’s search for meaning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great walk through Ecclesiastes
- De Programming Dragon en 05-02-16
- 21 Ecclesiastes: What's the Point?
- De: Skip Heitzig
- Narrado por: Skip Heitzig
Fantastic guide to a more fulfilling life!
Revisado: 02-25-23
Fantastic guide to a more beautiful and fulfilling life through the inspired words of Solomon
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Long Time Lost
- De: Chris Ewan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 19
Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: He's spent years living in the shadows under an assumed name. But when Nick steps in to prevent the attempted murder of witness-in-hiding Kate Sutherland on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of events with devastating consequences for everyone he protects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't Bother: Read "Safe House" Instead
- De Godwillen en 09-17-17
- Long Time Lost
- De: Chris Ewan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Annoying
Revisado: 01-11-23
The book keeps stressing the intelligence and expertise of the heroes yet they do one incredibly stupid thing after another.
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Wonderland
- De: Miranda Renae
- Narrado por: Michelle Shure
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 310
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 279
Kaleb "Rabbit" White hates everything about his life, especially his job at Red Queen Inc. He had plans to quit until a dangerous experiment went wrong, killing an entire room full of people....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Mystery of the Wonderland Virus.
- De Blackeagle en 04-22-22
- Wonderland
- De: Miranda Renae
- Narrado por: Michelle Shure
Really Poor
Revisado: 10-25-22
If you want the quick analysis, I have read over 100 books on Audible, maybe over 200, and i have only returned 2 or 3. This was one of them. The story is all over the place and does not make any sense in any way. In fact, the story is so disjointed that I thought it had accidentally skipped forward a couple times and I had missed a section of the book. But no, in each case the book had not skipped forward. The dysfunction of this book was apparent very early on but I always have to listen to the end hoping there will be some improvement and then when I get in far enough to tell there there will be no improvement coming I feel like I have gone so far and want to hear the ending as sometimes a bad book might still have a decent ending. No worries of that happening here as the ending was completely consistent with the rest of the book and one of the worst i had ever heard. This book was so bad that I was listening to it on 1.5 speed at the end, i have never listed to anything above 1.3. In addition to the bad story there were the characters. They were also all over the place. The two main characters kept making the same mistake over and over again. It was brutal.
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The Lions of Lucerne
- De: Brad Thor
- Narrado por: Armand Schultz
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,764
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,719
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,677
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East - the Fatah Revolutionary Council. But surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath doesn't believe the Fatah Revolutionary Council is responsible for the attack.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Scott Harvath
- De Carol en 11-18-12
- The Lions of Lucerne
- De: Brad Thor
- Narrado por: Armand Schultz
Very Disappointed. Was Excited to Read this book
Revisado: 07-24-20
Somewhere i had read that this book and character would be like a Mitch Rapp story so this encouraged me to buy it. In short it couldn't compare. The book was filled with a ton of useless detail but the worst part of the book was the utter stupidity of the lead character. He is supposed to be the best of the best in Navy Seals but despite the fact that he knows that 2 separate groups are doing their best to kill him he is constantly being surprised by attacks. If his attackers, who are supposed to be ace killers, could shoot at all he would have been dead 20 times. Time after time he walks out into the street only to find that someone is starting to shoot at him. You'd think he would be looking for it but no, it always surprises him and miraculously, despite being ambushed time after time somehow he doesn't get killed. Maybe even worse than this is that a person, who is more or less an administrative official that he teams up with, has to constantly save his life. In fact she is probably more of a hero in the book than he is.
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