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The Increment
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- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help---they're looking for a pretext to attack Tehran. To get his agent out, Pappas turns to a secret British spy team known as "The Increment," whose operatives carry the modern version of the double-O "license to kill." But the real story here is infinitely more complicated than he understands, and to get to the bottom of it he must betray his own country.
The Increment is The Spy Who Came in from the Cold set in Iran, with a dose of Graham Greene's The Human Factor to highlight the subtleties of betrayal.
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared.
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Was the narrator in a hurry?
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Difficult book to review. Pulse-pounding? Not.
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Too Censerord to be Enjoyable
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Class 11
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Save Your Money
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- Chris
- 08-16-23
Slow Start; Terrible Narratation
First - let's get the narration out of the way. From glancing over the other ratings, it is evident that listeners either love or hate the narrator, Dick Hill. I do not like his narrations at all. I recommend you listen to a sample of the book before buying it. Good grief, why Hill insist on making every main character a guy with a Boston accent? And the other characters, even at times the British ones, are for sure from the upper northeastern area of the US. it drives me mad.
The book's started out slow but I understand why. The author needed to give a lot of context to the before things really started moving. I really think I could have withstood it all had the narration not been so freakin horrible.
David Ignatius is a good writer. His books could be considered modern historical fiction. I would listen / read another one of his books, so long as Hill didn't narrate it.
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- Bob
- 03-07-10
Now this is a GREAT book. Fantastic reader.
If you like spy reads, this is for you. It starts with an email from Dr. Ali and goes full bore from there to the ending.Many twists and turns, makes you want to drive until the book is read. Dick Hill, the narrator, has given this book his all. He uses a different type of speaking for each character The combination of the author and the narrator make the book great. I read in the car. There were times I had to stop the narrative to digest the action. You will love this book.
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- Bob
- 07-13-09
Not a bad read, it's worth the download
I enjoyed this book. Since I'm not (and don't ever want to be) involved in mid-east politics I can't say how realistic this is. However, it seems plausable. I did think the ending was very predictable but am glad I read it.
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- D. Sevener
- 08-29-12
Good story, awful narration
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Ignatius does a very credible job of crafting and telling his story, with characters who are believable and who matter. But the narration of this book detracted from the story rather than enhancing it. His attempt to alter his voice for different characters, while appreciated from a more skilled narrator, here was annoying, very off-key. And his voice was tuned to hyper-dramatic, which was irritating enough as his default persona, but was even worse in that he made even scene-setting or background explaining narrative sound breathless and urgent. Like an actor trying to perform stage directions.
The story is worth reading, but in this instance, not worth listening to.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-26-09
A Real Thriller
This is a well told and gripping story. Perhaps the corruption of one of the characters in the UK Secret Service is a little far fetched, but the story is well worth the listen.
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- Jeff Lacy
- 05-14-23
Suspenseful and intriguing
Dick Hill does a decent job narrating. Some of the characters he portrays are over the top. His voice is a bit clownish at times, and irritating. The novel, however, is suspenseful and intriguing.
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- Casper P.
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The best Ignatius I've read so far
I love Dick Hill's narration. He seems to have ever the slightest distance to the text, which I find relaxing. Also, he sounds a little like Lewis Black, all lending a nice post modern feel to the performance.
I've read Body of Lies and Bloodmoney as well, and I recommend them too.
I'm still looking for a modern Bourne Identity, but this is good along the way!
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- steven
- 05-30-09
yet ANOTHER anti Bush book hidden in a thriller
fairly good narration and overall story, the author must not know that Bush is not president anymore, many people have this affliction, it is essentially a book that whines and complains about how a few good men in the CIA ,etc. are doing their best to give information against political pressure, as if this is a recent phenomenon
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- cookingMaven
- 03-20-11
more interesting as time goes by
David Ignatius is my new favorite writer. This book was a fascinating story, made more so by recent events surrounding Stuxnet. Several of his books have made me think we're getting the real deal.
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- Pezhman
- 07-21-12
More of a drama than a spy thriller
The story was not very exciting. It was very slow and was more of a drama than an exciting spy thriller. The narrator didn't do a good job on the Persian accents. He used what sounded like a Russian accent for all the Persian characters in the book, which was a little annoying. Other than the accents the narrator did a good job.
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