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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance
- Jack Ryan, Book 24
- By: Jeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Office of Naval Intelligence - Katie Ryan, the youngest daughter of President Jack Ryan. Like her father, she sees patterns where other don't, and she's determined that the Russians are about to launch a super missile sibmarine, the Belgorod.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Confusion of Characters
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2024
- Tom Clancy Act of Defiance
- Jack Ryan, Book 24
- By: Jeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Great to have new authors in the drivers seat
Reviewed: 03-06-2024
I enjoyed this a lot more than the last few books in the series. Not sure how many more members from this high achieving family can end up being world class spooks, but they pulled it off on this occasion.
Lots of nods to Red October but nothing too cheesy.
A good addition to the Jack Ryan series.
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Tom Clancy Red Winter
- Jack Ryan, Book 22
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hot. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer: invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector.
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1 out of 5 stars
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One book too many.
- By Mario LAROCCA on 30-10-2024
- Tom Clancy Red Winter
- Jack Ryan, Book 22
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
The plot just dragged for me
Reviewed: 02-01-2024
I really tried, first Tom Clancy book I never bothered finishing. Marc Cameron’s take on this universe is not up to it for me.
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Tom Clancy’s Chain of Command
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
America is under attack from within. Patients in hospitals, clinics and at home are dying when the drugs they need for survival turn out to be ineffective copies. A corrupt pharmaceutical billionaire has spent millions supporting radical groups while using the chaos they engender to cover his money-making schemes, but for a man with such towering ambitions, the only real goal is power. To get that, he'll have to eliminate the only impediment in his path - Jack Ryan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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meh
- By Anonymous User on 17-12-2021
- Tom Clancy’s Chain of Command
- By: Marc Cameron
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Weakest plot of any in the series
Reviewed: 22-12-2023
Boring book. Honestly looking forward to a new author picking up the series. There isn’t the detail I always loved in the books any more and all the complexity is gone.
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Billy Summers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Paul Sparks
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good read
- By Anonymous User on 11-08-2021
- Billy Summers
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Paul Sparks
No horror, no (well very little) supernatural business.
Reviewed: 21-09-2021
Quite different from many of the books Stephen King is famous for writing.
I enjoyed the multifaceted main character and the way he planned his revenge.
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The Suspect
- By: Michael Robotham
- Narrated by: Crispin Redman
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,747
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,737
Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life: a beautiful wife, a loving daughter, and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only one loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient - and the biggest lie of his life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time.
- By Geneva Batten on 21-06-2019
- The Suspect
- By: Michael Robotham
- Narrated by: Crispin Redman
Great story, best voice performance I’ve heard.
Reviewed: 11-05-2021
Thought it was going to be sluggish, but instead it was a slow burn that built interest the whole way through.
Enjoyed it the whole way through.
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All Our Shimmering Skies
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Ruby Rees
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,294
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,154
Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Got to Chapter 20, Couldn’t finish
- By Jen W. on 08-10-2020
- All Our Shimmering Skies
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Ruby Rees
Had to force myself to finish this book
Reviewed: 25-11-2020
The characters in the book just seem completely over blown and it felt like some of my uni assignments where the same rubbish was written over and over in slightly different ways to hit a word count.
High school English teachers will love this book and force students to hunt through it for symbolism and metaphor but the majority of this book bored me too much to think too deeply about it.
I recognise that the book almost certainly needed a female voice reading the book, but this performance really got on my nerves as well.
I wanted to love this after his first book, this just sailed wide of the mark for me.
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How to Build a Car
- By: Adrian Newey
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 470
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 407
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Story5 out of 5 stars 408
The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories, amusing pronunciations by narrator
- By Adam on 31-01-2023
- How to Build a Car
- By: Adrian Newey
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
Not just for rev heads!
Reviewed: 23-08-2020
I’m really not much into F1, but really enjoyed this book. Technical without being boring, an entertaining review of a life in the industry.
Really, really good.
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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 69
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a good overview
- By Peter spencer on 13-07-2020
- How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
Great book
Reviewed: 29-06-2020
Interesting and well researched book. Matt’s writing style, as always, is informative and engaging and not self-righteous or smug like some in this field of writing.
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The Whole Truth
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific
- By Simon on 05-05-2018
- The Whole Truth
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Political thriller written by the numbers
Reviewed: 17-06-2020
Fast pace and mostly enjoyable. The niggling relationship between the main character and the token journalist was over the top and a little annoying.
The narration grated me a bit.
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Zen Golf
- Mastering the Mental Game
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
In chapters such as "During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf," the author guides golfers with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and, equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent, is a PGA Tour Instructor who draws on his teaching experience to offer special methods that have led to amazing improvements in the games of professionals and amateurs alike.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking
- By andrew on 16-01-2016
- Zen Golf
- Mastering the Mental Game
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
Thought provoking
Reviewed: 16-01-2016
There is quite a lot to digest here, and I did feel like I would need to take notes at first but just listening to each section helped me think about taking golf for what it is. An enjoyable pastime and nothing more or less. Separate previous bad shots from future potential and enjoy it more.
I feel it has actually helped me and I know I will revisit this from time to time.
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