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The Great Impersonation

By: E. Phillips Oppenheim
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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East Africa, 1913. The disgraced English aristocrat Everard Dominey stumbles out of the bush and comes face to face with his lookalike, the German Baron von Ragastein. Months later, Dominey returns to London and resumes his glittering social life. But is it really Dominey who has come back - or a German secret agent seeking to infiltrate English high society?

As international tension mounts and Europe moves closer to war, Dominey finds himself entangled in a story of suspicion and intrigue. He must try to evade his insane and murderous wife as well as escape the attentions of the passionate Princess Eiderstrom - and will eventually uncover the secret of the ghost that haunts his ancestral home.

©2014 The Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust (P)2018 Soundings Espionage International Mystery & Crime Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Haunted Fiction
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This is a very well written story of its time and it is excellently narrated by Peter Noble. We might look back on the piece through the lens of our own times and find things to criticise, but as a story written almost contemporaneously with the end of the Edwardian era and the early days of WW1, it evokes the society, its mores and concerns very well - and all as part of a thunderingly good yarn. It picks up the theme of one person taking on the life of another as a means of furthering and confounding the aims of governments in their preparations for war - a theme used by other authors of the time, such as Anthony Hope and John Buchan - and carries it through very successfully, with a very satisfying, if well-signalled twist. All in all a very enjoyable listen.

Evokes the pre WW1 era very well

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we'll written and well read
a taste of the last month's before the first war
written with insight and intrigue before the world began to slide down hill

excellent

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