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The Twentieth Day of January

The Inauguration Day Thriller

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The Twentieth Day of January

By: Ted Allbeury
Narrated by: Michael Fenner
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A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre, first published in 1980.

What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US presidency? SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former Communist radical with links to the KGB.

When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the president-elect is not his own man before Inauguration Day and avoid a national catastrophe.

©2018 Ted Allbeury (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Crime Fiction Espionage Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Mystery Soviet Union

Critic reviews

"When I say Ted Allbeury knows where the bodies are buried I mean it literally." (Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress File)
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I kept hoping, in vain, for the story to do something, but it didn’t. Not one of his best, but he narration was good

Meh

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A good story - quite convincing.
What sold me wasMichael Fenner’s narration which I consider superb. His vocal prowess brought the story to life and I would recommend this audiobook.

A good story.

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The description makes this sound so much better than it actually is. In someone else's hands, this could've been a good novel. As it is, it's boring in the extreme. In the end, I cut my losses and gave up.

I gave up halfway through

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