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  • By: Eric Ambler
  • Narrated by: Anthony Howell
  • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)
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Journey into Fear

By: Eric Ambler
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It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entrancing French dancer, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor and a small, brutal man in a crumpled suit - he enters a nightmarish world where friend and foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer ...

©1940 Eric Ambler (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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Struggled to stay interested. So slow! Slow story, slow delivery… Didn’t like any of the characters. Not my thing.

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Classic spy story, lazily perfomed

This book is something of a masterpiece of mid-20th century thriller writing. it isn't only gripping, there is a delicious degree of cosmopolitanism, Ambler's sense of politics, including dislike of capitalism, is spot-on. His character depictions are terrifically rounded and persuasive, the sense of place is always convincing. Unfortunately the production is poor. The actor makes almost no attempt to pronounce any foreign name or word correctly. Male and female characters are rendered identically. The protagonist of the novel is from the north of England, but the production makes no attempt to convey that. A shame that such a deft novel is condemned to such shabby production and performance.

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thrilling story

Great story and excellent listen. I wished however that the narrator had made the different voices more distinctive.

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Brilliantly written, exquisitely performed

But the Turkish pronunciations were awful 🤣 They should gave checked it with a Turkish speaker.

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