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Invasion
- Narrated by: Frank Gardner
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The world is on high alert.
Across the Strait from Taiwan, China’s armed forces appear to be readying for war. Could the People’s Republic be preparing to invade its island neighbour?
Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has a mole deep within the Chinese Communist Party leadership – an individual in possession of intel that could defuse this fast-escalating situation. A ‘collector’ is sent to meet the spy and, in an anonymous Hong Kong café, the information is handed over. But before the collector can get the data to MI6, she is overpowered, drugged and abducted by persons unknown. Is it the MSS, China’s infamous state security agency? Or has another, less predictable player entered the game?
As geo-political tensions rise, MI6 field operatives Luke Carlton and Jenny Li are dispatched to find the missing agent and the precious intel she carries. With the clock ticking and tip-offs taking them to shady Macau casinos, tawdry night clubs and multiple dead ends, Luke is convinced they are being deliberately strung along.
Then they get the vital lead they need. It points to Taiwan – a country frantically preparing for imminent invasion. And it’s there that Luke and Jenny uncover what is really going on. . .
Drawing on his years of experience reporting on global security stories and in-depth knowledge of the security services, Frank Gardner has written his most frighteningly real, unnerving and explosive thriller yet.
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- TJF
- 18-06-24
Exciting and infuriating
I agree with the other reviewers, Frank does a good job of narrating his own story.
like all the defence detail that you know is accurate given the author. but not sure about the Chinese super soldiers.
also you just want to punch MI6 legal, HR and ethics people.
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- Pastorclarke
- 02-06-24
A real surprise
I have heard the previous books and enjoyed them for the escapism they were. The performance of the read was good but gave the tales a fanciful telling. Here Frank takes over as narrator and what a surprise! At first the lack of dramatisation in his telling left me cold. I guess I expected more of what I heard. However after about 15 mins I tuned my head into his (new reader) style, reading it like a retelling of a tale he had heard. He gave his book a new sense of “truth” I heard it like news and really enjoyed it. It was a brave call and a very good one.
Thanks Frank for the tale and the telling. P
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- Pat McKenna
- 14-06-24
Brilliant book - BUT - the ending?
I enjoy the writers books immensely and the plot to this one is excellent. However, if there is a second follow-up book then I say, great. If not then the ending to this book is at best, incomplete. I do very much hope that there is a follow up that rounds off the story in a more complete fashion.
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- Helen L. Lewis
- 02-06-24
Great pace
I enjoyed the plot twists and the setting in Taiwan. Cliffhanger at the end was interesting
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- Will
- 22-06-24
Lightweight plot & poor delivery
An interesting idea completely let down by lightweight plot, almost laughably bad scenes and above all a stilted and distracting delivery by the author.
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- Larry Leadfoot
- 27-06-24
Great story, terrible performance
Please Frank, for the next book, ask a professional narrator to read the text. Your performance (I guess for obvious reasons) was that of a news reader. No emotion. It was like listening to a robot
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