Nicholas Thompson

Solid Uk procedural set in the 1990s

Revisado: 02-13-25

Story is top notch not predictable but not convoluted. Did great setting the scene for a few decades ago. Really enjoyed the narration, will look for more by this author and separately the narrator. Enjoyable commute listen with a few twists and turns. DS Kenton and DS Brazier were both believable characters, thought the Essex setting was well written.

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Super writing

Revisado: 02-02-23

I have read many of these columns in the grauniiad newspaper but having them collected and read was worthwhile. The writing is brilliant and there is the added bonus of an in depth interview with Marina at the end of the book

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Superb extended story of “the man who never was

Revisado: 01-07-23

Expanded factually expanded update to the classic wartime operation to misdirect the German high command in WW2 over the Sicily landings.

Narration is superb once you get used to the clipped style. At first I found it off putting, however I feel after finishing the production that it added since the narrator is delivering in a mid forties style.

Great writing, incredible material, and enjoyable narration. Highly recommended

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Sums up craptastic post-brexit Britain

Revisado: 07-12-22

There is a tragedy in this, summed up brilliantly in the prose. Britain may have been a contender. Once. This novel sums up how the likes of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg have soiled this once great nation. Or maybe it was always this. Mick is the Matt Johnson of spy novels. You might think you are reading a great spy novel. I could not possibly say, however Herron’s writing is superb and Doyle’s reading gives it it’s due credit. My only worry is that this novel may rely on contemporaneous references that may not age well, because I genuinely feel this is a modern classic of literature, and if not that it certainly describes the desolation of British office life. Read it. Brilliant…

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Well researched

Revisado: 05-24-22

Well written and researched account if post steve Apple. I spent 15 years working in engineering at Apple and this account rings true. Minor inaccuracies don’t mar the overall narrative. I use Apple products every day, but don’t love like I did my Mac Plus, or even my iMac. Functional now, size and inertia hold Apple back from its former glories. Tim has shepherded the company through the death if Steve and beyond, Ive seems to have needed someone to reign him in to do his best work. Enjoyable performance, great content. Recommended.

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Outstanding description

Revisado: 04-28-22

Fascinating study. The final chapters were excellent: discussing the impact of Snowden and the challenge of dealing with the explosion of communication data engendered by the internet. Dry but highly interesting book. The challenges faced and overcome by the security services continue to present huge intellectual and resource demands that if unmet will expose us to severe risk.

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Slow start excellent history

Revisado: 01-24-22

This gets off to a slow start with a lot of facts and figures early on but stick with it, this is a comprehensive and accurate historical record that is well worth the effort.

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UK voters *should* have been familiar with this material before BREXIT

Revisado: 09-13-21

Covers the English political and economic landscape over the last few decades. From Suez to Brexit is the tagline but it becomes difficult to disassociate much of the early period from the second world war and especially from the economic collapse of the British economy, caused in large part by the US insistence that Britain should dismantle her imperial trading relationships, largely so the US could leverage them for their own benefit.

Covers the split between a transatlantic leaning policy and a Europe centric policy. The irony of maintaining a massively expensive nuclear deterrent that is neither independent noe cost effective, purely for “prestige” while at the same time running down conventional naval, air defence and ground based forces is well covered.

The author is highly critical of recent leaders from Thatcher onwards and it does seem the dumbing down of the British political class has had increasingly adverse unintended consequences. In particular Blair and Cameron are both deservedly pilloried.

I still am at a loss how the English decided that going it alone could be preferable to an economic and political alliance with Europe and the author repeatedly points out that a Britain without influence is of no use whatsoever to her military masters in the USA.

Really well written, the events gibe with my own recollection of this time period, from the 1960’s onward. The author appears to have no axe to grind: in a sense that makes the content of this work more devastating. What is somewhat sad is that this material was well known to most people who were paying attention, how the UK got into the Brexit fix is a mystery. The mendacity of populism and weak leaders is covered superbly by the author.

The narration is clipped and at first seems almost too neutral however I feel the narrator did the material a service. Some accents were applied to quotations from the principals, there are not overdone and are subtle enough as to not impinge.

An utterly depressing, yet compelling and factual, description of lions led by donkeys.

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Royce Pierreson superb narration of a classic

Revisado: 04-15-21

This is a well written book, written in late Victorian times. Pierreson’s west country accents for his characters are good and I enjoyed this performance. I read moonfleet some forty years ago as an English lit O level book, it was good to revisit this work which I believe has stood the test of time.

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