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Judas 62

Box 88 Series, Book 2

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Judas 62

By: Charles Cumming
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
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After a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy Lachlan Kite has made plenty of enemies. And now, as the director of the outfit's operations in the UK, one of those past enemies has him in their sights . . .

1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia, a spy in the guise of a language teacher. Embedded in the town of Voronezh, Kite's mission is to extract a chemical weapons scientist before the man's groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands and shuttle him across the border to freedom in Ukraine. But Kite's mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail.

2020: Thirty years after that dangerous mission, Kite discovers that its outcome put his name on the notorious "JUDAS" list—a record of enemies of Russia who have been targeted for assassination. Kite's fight for survival takes him to Dubai, a city crawling with international intelligence officers, where he enters into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the Russian secret state.

©2021 Charles Cumming (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Espionage International Mystery & Crime Mystery Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Russia Fiction Exciting
Well-crafted Spy Adventure • Engaging Characters • Seamless Timeline Transitions • Suspenseful Moments • Quality Writing
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The narrator was great and author did a nice job of switching seamlessly between past and future

Adept at switching seamlessly between past and future

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As good as Cumming gets and that is very, very good, once again. He is really a master

A master at work

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The palpable level of danger and suspense in Voronehz for the exfil of Yuri Aranov had my chest tighten - my breath shallow. I almost didn’t want to keep listening for fear the operation was going to fall apart. - great writing.

My One Note - I really wanted to hear that Oksana did indeed build a life for herself after the vicious attack she suffered at the direction of Gromik - working her way up inside the FSK where she puts Galvin’s name on the JUDAS list.

One Note -

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Too much Randy young college student sex and drugs. Unrealistic scenarios! A waste of money!

Boring.

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Another well crafted spy adventure but a bit laborious and extenuated. Not up to standards of his prior books but still a great listen.

well crafted but.....

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I enjoyed the story, the characters, and the narration was fine: not overly dramatic but also not monotone and boring.

Well written spy thriller

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Another wonderful book by Cummings about Box 88. The performance was excellent. I would love to find more books narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick. He is amazing at different voices and different accents. Really makes the story come alive. Can’t wait for the next adventure by the box88 team.

Great story. Fast paced

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Another great spy novel by Cumming. This is a good series, and I’ve enjoyed his stand-alone novels as well.

Outstanding novel, composed and performed artfully

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This second Box 88 installment has a different narrator, he is excellent (as was the previous one). The settings are quite a bit different, and in parts very interesting. There is the usual excess fat in the storytelling (same problem on the 1st installment), but here the story is not as strong, particularly in the last third of the book. You could say it loses steam at the wrong time. Still, I find the quality of C. Cumming's writing in fleshing out the characters very good and enjoyable.

Mostly very good, but very uneven in parts

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I must say that I was a little surprised at the amount of anti-Russian propaganda that pervades this book. The very context with which the book ends reveals a subconscious desire to reveal what the book itself has done to the reader regarding providing fake news or narratives as real and true. I was disappointed, but on the other hand, I like the characters and the plot. 

Too Much Anti-Russian Propaganda

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