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Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, crooks, and thugs of Putin’s Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington’s most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.

As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; survives an Iranian assassination attempt; escapes a counterintelligence ambush; rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia; and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin. Complicating these risks is the fact that Dominika is in love with her CIA handler, Nate Nash, and their lust is as dangerous as committing espionage in Moscow. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika’s name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence....

©2015 Jason Matthews (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Action & Adventure Espionage Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Russia Fiction Military

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"An insider’s insider...and a masterful storyteller." (Vince Flynn)
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If you have read book one then you already have some inkling as to its content. However , the new narrator really brings this follow up book to life and injects a third dimension to each and every character.
The book carries on seamlessly and never skips a beat.

A truly wondrous narration and a spectacular book

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Bit of a shock to the system after the first book is narrated very well by a man. Don't get me wrong she is brilliant too, but took a little while to get used to the different pronunciations of familiar names - jarred a litte for a while.
Didn't spoil another excellent book, and to be honest I would happily listen to either narrator again.

Hang on, book two and a female narrator!

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a fun book for a mindless long drive. narrator not quite right (prefer male narration of previous book). sexualisation was so obvious it got in the way of the story. at worst it was bluntly sexist even though the central figure was a strong woman. recipes also distracting, started to dread restaurants in book! narrators tone during recipe reading began to grate. otherwise a ripper... enjoyable!

fun story, page turner. sexualisation irritating.

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If I could give zero for the narration I would. The narrator is really bad when it comes to character voices and it totally takes you out of the story. The best example or should I say the the worst example is the voice of Zuganof, a character in the book who is meant to be a remorseless psychotic man feared by all that are around him is made to sound like ‘Gru’ from the movie Despicable Me I was half expecting one of the cute yellow minions to chime up at some point. Any feeling of threat and terror that the author was trying to illicit from the reader or listener via the character was completely undone by the voice the narrator would put on

the narrator on this occasion was not good enough and detracted from the over all experience of the audio book. I have no complaints about the plot or the story, it’s the only thing that kept me listening till the end.

Great story, Awful narration...

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Another high quality addition to the series. Not much to criticise here. However, I thought it an odd choice to have a completely different narrator for the middle book of the trilogy.
If you like to binge listen, going straight from the first book tio this one, then it's rather jarring to have such drastically different voices for characters you'd already coined to know well, like Gable.

Change in narrator

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