David M. Sullivan
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Dramatised)
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brian Cox is great but...
- De DARBY KERN en 06-01-10
Superb in Every Way
Revisado: 04-01-15
I cannot praise this production enough. Originally I thought I had made a mistake by ordering a dramatisation instead of the whole novel, but within a half-hour I was enthralled by the extraordinary vocalisations, dramatic yet subtle radio-like sound-effects, and of course the complex realism of Le Carre's writing. Highly recommended if you do not want to read the entire novel. Listening to this abridgement, you may want to read the entire novel!
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The Glass Key
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 566
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 511
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett invented the noir crime novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-12
- The Glass Key
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
Uneventful and humourless
Revisado: 04-01-15
I had read various stories by Dashiell Hammett before and found him crisp, humourless in a deadpan way, and quick-paced. I don't know what it was - maybe the hard-boiled crime novel is paling on me - but I found this novel surprisingly bland. There is not noticeable humour in it, which surprised me for Hammett, and I did not get any real sense as to who Nick Beaumont - the main character - is, or why he deserved to be telling this story. I had a much better sense of Paul Madviig, the person Beaumont describes himself as the one to whom he is hanger-on. Maybe this is realism; I myself found it unevenly to the point of boring, And again, as a fan of Hammett, I am surprised at the accolades this novel garners, which is why I picked it to listen to.
Also, I did not think the narrator was an especially skilled reader, which is why I wish there were a way of previewing books on Audible.
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