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Jericho's War

By: Gerald Seymour
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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Summary

In a moment of suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of people will converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert.

Corrie Rankin is already a legend at MI6 when he is sent to take down a high-value player in the war against Al Qaeda. This is Jericho's War. The weapons it deploys and the brutal aims it pursues are state of the art. The fear it breeds and the raw bravery it demands are as timeless as the desert itself.

©2017 Gerald Seymour (P)2017 W F Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense War Espionage Middle East
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"As good as the best of the masters - Greene, Ambler, Le Carre." ( Los Angeles Examiner)
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I read other reviews and I can imagine if you haven’t read much Gerald Seymour that you might not understand how the books multiple strands come together. If not , just settle in and let it happen !
Another genius simple plot with sub plots tensions and fears , that in the end , made me turn away briefly unable to face the next thing that might happen.
Fantastic research as ever vivid pictures of real characters.

Tremendous!

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A good listen apart from the occasional(very) bad pronunciations of some of the names and places - for example Salalah has the second not the third syllable stressed etc. Some of the characters were oddly named but, nevertheless, a good story. I shall look for more tales by this author.

Jericho's War

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I liked the character development, the plot development, the pace, the narration. Builds well and voices are well crafted; credible story and the characters are better than most I've read/heard recently. Recommended listening.

great war story from an uncared-for land

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This book would be easy to give up on - halfway through (if you can make it that far!) it still hasn't really got going. The last five hours or so pick up the pace, and in the end it was worth listening to. In many ways, Seymour is a little like Le Carre, a fairly thin plot and a lot of character development. Perhaps it reads better in hard copy than as an audiobook. Or maybe, there is a case (unusually) for an abridged version.

You need to be patient!

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My last Gerald Seymour was the excellent Field of Blood so I was long overdue in returning to his books.  This one however doesn't reach that very high standard.

Seymour's books aren't typically fast--paced, they have always tended to be a bit more sedate than a lot of popular thriller writers.  This one starts well with an excellent prologue that melds cleverly into the present day.  After that though it just takes too long to get going and any action is slowed down by flashbacks and internal monologue.  There is also a lot of repetition so the slower pace adds little in terms of depth.  Leighton Pugh's narration is also relatively slow which possibly exacerbates the torpid feel of a lot of the book.  Towards the end the action does come and is genuinely exciting so if you get halfway and are thinking of giving up it's probably worth continuing.

The characters are given a gritty realism rather than any kind of heroic hue.  Sure there is bravery but none of them are easy to like or get behind.  The chemistry between them feels ill-balanced and given their experience the "mission" characters behave in ways that didn't appear totally credible.

It's a worthwhile purchase if you are happy with a slower pace but for me this would have been much better if it had been more strongly edited, possibly as much as three to four hours worth.

No More Heroes

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