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Countdown

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
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An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent.

The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. Then a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings between an officer's superiors and an informant, dealings she's not supposed to know about. And a plot that could kill thousands of Americans. Including her husband and daughter.

Knowing that her leadership is corrupt to the core, intelligence officer Amy Cornwall is forced to give up her identity and to work from the shadows. But it's not easy staying hidden when your enemies are elite intelligence operatives.

Will she get the truth out into the light before losing her identity, her history, her family?

The countdown has already begun.

©2023 James Patterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Crime Fiction Espionage Military Suspense War & Military Fiction Mystery
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Great listen / horrible accents

Another great, heart pounding book featuring Amy Cornwall. The story is thrilling with twists you’ll never see coming. However as a Brit, the accents of the narrator are truly, truly awful.

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Great storyline

I loved everything about this book! The detail is great. I can’t wait for the next one!

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Embarrassingly bad

Patterson used to be a good writer. This is awful. It seems to have been written by a 12 year old with no sense of irony. Totally predictable. Why is he still doing it? Particularly with a co writer. Brit characters are called Jeremy Windsor and Perkins Gloucester with one called Horace pronounced Horus. Even the main character is named after a place in the Uk. Amy Cornwall, pronounced Corn-Wall. The reader Ellen Archer is even worse. Her British accents are cod, upper class 1940s BBCi and her non Brits are all the same, Saudi, Chechen, whatever. With inexplicable lapses into Irish accents from time to time. In all a complete waste of a credit.

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Did you actually do any research on England?

Character is supposed to be ex SAS but talks like some cheap Jayne Austin knockoff. It’s like the English language was learned from a 90’s satirical comedy. Nobody talks the way any of these characters talk 😅🤦‍♂️

Similar with the military terms and references.

It just feels lazy and poorly researched. Unfortunately lives up to the cliché of Americans being ignorant.

Choice of narrator is a let down as on top of terrible choice of British language from the author they can’t do accents.

Story line is OK though.

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