Mike Williamson

The retelling of a story which dominated my youth and early adulthood

Revisado: 04-28-24

It brought my memories and demystified the history with a powerful telling from all sides of the conflict.

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Real Characters in a real environment

Revisado: 01-07-24

Mr McKinty has done it again. Why more people don’t follow Sean Duffy and his team at RUC is a mystery to me. The dialogue, the immediacy of the narrative and the wonderful narration by Gerard Doyle is a five star experience. My only regret is having to wait 5 years!

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Painful

Revisado: 01-28-22

The story would have been tolerable, but the narrator made it painful. You know what to expect with Lynda La Plante. Nothing too cerebral, an escapist pot boiler. I dare say if I were reading rather than listening, I would have read the whole trilogy, but this is just too hard to listen to. I’ve been listening to audiobooks for many years and now have several hundred in my library, but I can honestly say that this is the worst narration I’ve heard and won’t be listening to the other books, no matter how enticing the sample (which it wasn’t). This is a narrator who makes children sound like cartoon characters and “grizzled” police sergeants sound like they’re in a sitcom - and don’t get me started on the topic of volume control!
In a word - dreadful.

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Keep writing Mr Grainger

Revisado: 11-04-21

I cannot get enough of these stories. They are simple but thorough in their reasoning and procedural descriptions. The are full of humour and the characters are always fully developed.
Up there with Ian Rankin and Adrian McKinty.

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Very poor

Revisado: 10-03-21

Poorly written pot boiler. I could not find a single redeeming feature. A very amateur piece of writing which relies on every cliche imaginable with not one likeable character.

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Too much sex!

Revisado: 09-28-20

I’m sure the author is a very capable writer when it comes to the topic of intimate romance, however if that was what I was looking for I would have looked under Erotica. I wasn’t expecting to find so many mind-numbingly descriptive passages in a crime thriller. It did nothing to enhance the storyline at all.
A disappointment.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 09-26-20

Sucked into the story by the open post apocalyptic chapters which promised so much and delivered nothing but childish misanthropic claptrap.
I won’t be looking for any more of this author’s work.

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Romantic drivel

Revisado: 05-17-20

I tried twice to get into this, but the melodramatic dialogue , the granite jawed handsome detective and the “cold and stormy night” prose was too much for me.
Give me Ian Ransom or Adrian McClinty any day.

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Oh Dear (SPOILER ALERT)

Revisado: 05-03-20

I can’t think why you did this, Mr Grainger. As always your excellent prose and crafting of characters, new and old, together with the wonderful delivery of Gildart Jackson, made the story a delightful “read”. Until...
What happened, did you run out of puff?
I find it hard to imagine that you planned this from the moment you picked up your figurative pen.
Are we all really now expected to wait another 12 months?
In a word - disappointed.

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Luxury

Revisado: 01-15-20

Le Carré never ever ever fails to deliver and never ever disappoints.

As usual an excellently written and narrated story. As topical, believable and meaningful as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was in 1963.

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