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Reconstruction
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission.
Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....
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- Molly
- 26-04-21
More excellence from Mick
I'm as devoted to the Jackson Lamb/Slough House series every bit as much as the next Mick Herron fan, so I expected Reconstruction to fall a bit flat by comparison. It didn't. I thought it was a superb novel with vivid characters and a tense, tight plot. Having almost all the events take place on a single day seems to me a difficult device, one which Mick Herron pulled off skillfully and with all the dark humour and twists that we hope for in his work. Absolutely loved it.
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- John
- 07-12-23
Twists and turns and misdirection
Another enjoyable Mick Herron story which starts small and builds and builds with twists and turns and misdirection. The narration helps bring it to life.
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- Virginia Slim
- 31-03-21
First class Mick Herron novel
Keeps you guessing all the way through. Possibly Herron's plot best although all the Slough House novel are intelligent, witty and absorbing. This one features Bad Sam Chapman, who isn't really that bad as one character points out (but perhaps not in this story). One cautionary note - for unknown reasons the audio begins with a personal excerpt from the reader talking about the challenges of reading Herron's works. Skip that. The story speaks for itself. Surprise ending which I won't give away.
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- Ali
- 28-02-23
speed the narration up to 1.15 and it improves!
a bit slow but it gets there. In a hut of resistible hostages, the gunman is the least annoying, and if it weren't for the back story of Bad Sam Chapman I might have given up.
Some actors are too ponderous and deliberate in their narration, but speeding this one up removes alot of the melodramatic silences and hugely improves the other Zoë Boehm books too.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-03-23
Not as compelling as Slough House etc but worth listening to
Certainly engaging and well-constructed. The narration is also good (albeit different to the Slough House series).
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- magser
- 02-10-20
Earlyish Mick Herron
You can feel Mick Herron getting into his stride here, but once you read/listen to the Jackson Lamb series you realise he's capable of much more than he's achieved here.
I'm afraid that I didn't enjoy Julia Franklin's narration. Sorry, Julia. Quite mannered and not always convincing when she does voices.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-07-23
Poor narrator
Good and clever story but sorry awful narrator. Such a pity as I love this series
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- Roger E
- 07-11-23
Slow moving
The story resolved itself into something reasonably interesting but overall was ponderous.
The reading was poor. Increasing the speed helped
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- H. Davis
- 16-01-24
Gains momentum
It's very well read. The story is a good one. Although it starts slowly, with little action and a lot about characters' thoughts and feelings (which I hadn't chosen the book for) it makes up for it later.
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- Gary Lynch
- 26-01-24
A tad predictable?
Lots to commend this book, but I had worked out who the villain of this story was (and who wasn’t!) quite early. I also was not too keen on the ending I am afraid, that might say more about me as I don’t like being left hanging, wondering what happened to the characters (unless there is a sequel!
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