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Reconstruction

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission.

Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....

©2008 Mick Herron (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd
Crime Thrillers Thriller & Suspense
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Compelling Storyline • Complex Characters • Intricate Plot • Well-developed Story • Impeccable Performance
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Why have the narrator introduce herself at the beginning of the novel? It just distracts from the novel and inserts her ostentatious personality. She over emotes at every opportunity. Hearing her act like a child is just creepy not to mention her swallowing saliva. Ick.

Good book Cringe worthy narrator

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The story was well developed and engaging. I particularly appreciated Ms. Franklin’s introduction and Explanation about how she would narrate this book.

Excellent Story and narration

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I have a new favorite British spy author.. Excellent characters. I recommend this book.

Good story

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A main character is supposed to be Hispanic, but the reader’s idea of a Spanish accent sounds more Eastern European.

Not as good as the Slough House series.

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as a yank I truly admire the diversity of accents in the UK and the Slough House book's narrator does a great job with those inflections. this narrator, however, ruins the story for me. why does she constantly drag one syllable words out into three syllables?? the male characters are nearly incomprehensible and this is supposed to be a Hispanic accent?!?

terrible narration, ok story

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I tried to get past it because I am a huge Herron fan and love the audio editions of the Slough House series, but this reader is incredibly overbearing. Way way too much emphasis on every. single. word. The scenery chewing overacting is such that I couldn't follow the plot—far too distracted by the overdone voicing. (Not good in so many ways, including: why does she use a thick, Boris-and-Natasha Russian accent to voice a hispanic character????) I got maybe halfway through, kept having to rewind whole chapters to try to hear the story rather than the hamfest vocal performance, and finally just couldn't take it any more, gave up and returned for refund credit.

worst reader ever

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This isn’t his best. Writing is clever but the story is too drawn out. A few less repeated phrases and themes might have helped.

I love Mick Heron but

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I had to mute it a lot to get through it. I'm not sure the narrator has ever heard a child speak. I won't get another book with her reading it.

Narrator is intolerable but story is good

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It is really a bit painful
So much so that it is difficult to focus on the story

The narration takes away from the story

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Mick Herron is one of my all-time favorite writers, but this one lags. It's still worth a listen, though I agree with other reviewers that the narrator detracts a great deal from the experience (and why use a poor imitation of an Eastern European accent for a principal character whose first language is Spanish??) For me, the plot lacked Herron's usual deft twists and the book over-all seemed tedious -- I kept thinking of Dog Day Afternoon. Herron's writing is superb - his use of language is always a treat, so yes, I would still recommend this book, but for me, his others are much better.

Not Herron's best

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