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Every Spy a Traitor

The Double Agent Series, Book 1

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Every Spy a Traitor

By: Alex Gerlis
Narrated by: Phillipe Bosher
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Summary

 Trust no one. Suspect everyone.

It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.

As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie’, and there’s a frantic search to find them. What they don’t know is that he is not the only traitor.

The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever…

The thrilling first novel in Alex Gerlis’ new Double Agent espionage series, perfect for fans of Charles Cumming and Mick Herron.©2024 Alex Gerlis (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd 20th Century Action & Adventure Espionage Historical Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Stalin Soviet Union War
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A really fun spy thriller, brilliantly performed. So many fantastic character voices that were fun but believable, and kept me engaged through all the twists and turns of the story.

Brilliantly narrated spy thriller

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Didn’t enjoy this book very much at, at times it seemed overly complicated with too many different characters.
Also narration for me was poor , with gaps in the dialogue

Disappointed

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I like Alex Gerlis’ work and I’ve read a lot worse by other authors but this felt a bit jumbled and the main character too Woosterish too care about or sympathise with.

Not my favourite Gerlis

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This novel should have been thrilling but poor narration especially executable French accent spoiled this. It came across as a farce. Very dissapointing

Sadly, poor narration spoiled this for me

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The book is fairly light, fun fare. The characters are not sketched in any great depth or have long qualms about the morality of their acts. Rather they push on with the action, sometimes with rather implausible motives or mistakes (though looking at real life blunders of the time such as the Venlo Incident, perhaps that is realistic...), but with therefore quite a fast pace of plot. The mix of different characters took me a while to get my head around, but then makes for a pleasingly rounded account of events, with multiple perspectives and overlapping plot strands. It all makes for a light, fun, easy to read bit of entertainment.

The audio version of the book however... The narrator I liked, with the exaggerated accents making it easier to distinguish between the different characters. The editing though has gone badly wrong, with various sentences repeated, coughs not removed and weirdly timed pauses. Sadly that makes it by far the worst put together audio book I've listened to, and that includes a Robert Harris one that was missing a few pages which contained a key plot point (!). It is so obviously poor I wonder if the publisher uploaded the wrong file by mistake?

Let's hope the publisher gets its act together soon and returns to its usual standards.

Fun plot, but awful audio book version

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