Good story spoiled by bad narrating

Good story, but the narrator killed off the suspension by reading it in a very monotone voice and the conversations became very dull. Almost every sentence ended with the voice going down, regardless of the content of the sentence. Fun story, but clearly aimed at American audience in the late 1980’s

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It was ok.

Not a quick book for sure. but had me going back

It's a different get it.

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Riveting story - terribly narrated

Action packed story - if you can make it past the narrator’s dull, flat, droning delivery.

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A good yarn

I loved this story. Was gripping in spite of the somewhat peculiar stilted narration. I really hesitate to make such criticism but I kept thinking at various parts in the book that what was happening would have been so much richer if the cadence of the voice of the narrator changed.

Was like listening to a person speak in time to a metronome. Shame. The actual story was well crafted enough to keep me listening tho.

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Really very good.

A gripping read. From a British readers view, the american authors portrayal of the UK can be a little steriotypical, but thats a good thing, because it shows us Brits what others think our country is like. Made me smile knowingly.
The story is gripping and interesting and the characters likable and consistant. There is a little waffle (the text drags on just a touch in places) but overall, a great listen/read.

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A long winded story

Maybe this is a great book, but there’s over long gaps between the action scenes – perhaps it’s not actually the writing, because certainly the narration is pretty horrible and that definitely detracts much from the story 

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Narrator was perhaps once human

This was a great story that was totally spoiled by the narration. At times I was suspicious that it was just a cybot reading it, or perhaps the narrator had once recorded the dictionary and all the words were just being pieced together. I can’t believe I listened to the whole thing now but I’d already returned 2 books I hadn’t liked last month so felt I was kind of stuck with it. It’s a shame as it wasn’t reflective of the standard and quality I’ve come to associate with Audible.

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some strange notions about UK!

Tom Clancy has some strange notions about the UK! I found it odd that when British characters spoke they used the American pronunciation of some places.

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best book I've listened to

loved this book, big fan of Tom Clancy. Seen this movie many times and was curious to see how the book was different from the movie, it didn't disappoint. On to the next Clancy book!

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Audio quality is not great

Great story but the quality of the recording isn’t great. In the last few chapters I kept thinking I could hear someone talking and it’s background noise on the recording!!

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