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Harm
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
Acapulco, 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. She wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table and a man with an AK-47 coming through the door of her hotel room. She needs all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. After a car chase, she is captured by a Mexican drug boss who exploits her radiant beauty and ruthless expertise to eliminate an inconvenient member of the government.
Notting Hill, 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic mother. When a local gangster attacks her younger sister, Rina wreaks violent revenge and murders him. Innocence betrayed, Rina faces the brutality of the postwar London underworld - a world that teaches her the skills she needs to kill....
Hugh Fraser is best known for playing Captain Hastings in Agatha Christie's Poirot and the Duke of Wellington in Sharpe. His films include Patriot Games, 101 Dalmatians, The Draughtsman's Contract and Clint Eastwood's Firefox.
In the theatre he has appeared in Teeth'n'Smiles at the Royal Court and Wyndhams and in several roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also narrated many of Agatha Christie's novels as audiobooks. Harm is his first novel.
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- J A GARDNER
- 11-11-22
Harm-ful to Miss
What a little gem this book is. if I had not looked who had wrote this book, I would have thought it had been somebody like Martina Cole. Having Annie Aldington as the narrator was a great move as I have listened to her a few times and and she is great.
A real surprise & glad I chose this book.
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- Rose
- 21-07-22
fast paced but poor writing
‘he says’ ‘she says’ ‘I say’ oh lord, not again. Can’t anyone write a decent book any more without constantly repeating what quotes will tell us anyway? apparently not. The book has pace certainly. it’s fast and packed full of action but, how can somebody be pulled to their feet and then stand? Poor writing as I have stated lets the book down. The narration is fairly good but the accents leave something to be desired. I read it, that’s about all there is to add here.
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- Hi Ho Silver
- 29-08-21
Una paloma blanca
This hard little bird flies her way through crimes large and even larger. Her personal revelations and trust issues all cause her to be where she finds herself in 1974. The tale is well narrated, almost mesmeric, but so enjoyable with it's intensity and tension, not knowing exactly what is around each bend in the road. Rina flutters in and out of horrible situations, like a pigeon trying to find her way to a home, not like any home she grew up in, but an ideal HEA.
I am from this era, so knew there would be a couple of errors with inventions and tech from the time, but only found two. 1.
the wrong English police caution is quoted; the police caution changed in 1990s, the new one is the one quoted. 2. Telephony was not as easy as in the story. At my house we did not have our own line until 1975, before that we had a party line, with calls connected by the operator even for local calls. A private phone in a home was still not standard at this time. You had to book an international call, and sometimes wait hours to be connected.
ENJOYABLE TALE
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- Loola
- 14-01-22
Good story, but difficult to listen to the narrator.
A good story, but I personally didn’t enjoy the narration. Trying to move from a tough London gangster girl accent to a hard nosed Mexican drug baron….she just couldn’t pull it off and it sounded, well, just weird.
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- Hannah
- 08-01-23
Enjoyable
Fast moving and absorbing , it’s not great “literature” but a good story and I enjoyed listening to it . I enjoyed the narration and will probably listen to the rest of the series
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- Mrs P. Clarke
- 29-08-21
I wanted to love this but...
I just didn't. The main story was so "choose your own adventure" I couldn't care about what happened next. The gangland flashbacks are so depressing, I couldn't face any more. I'm also perplexed by the fans of the narrator; every time she mispronounced something like carotid (as "caratoid") and corticosteroids, it pulled me right out of the story, her 'american' accents are terrible and the young people's voices are like ripping tin. Sorry Hugh, just not my cup of tea.
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- Helen gorman
- 19-01-22
Fast paced thriller
Never a dull moment with this book. The narrator is excellent! Warning! There is violence & sexual abuse but I thoroughly enjoyed this listen.
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- KJ Monty
- 09-06-17
Nonstop action
Phew what can I say I'm exhausted from listening to this book, it's really nonstop and even though the heroine is actually a murderer I can't help but like her, have downloaded the second book and can't wait to listen.
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- Street
- 03-09-19
Different
You'll either like it or hate it - boys own action to the nth degree but with a female "heroine" murderess who goes from one deadly encounter to the next - OTT for sure, often confusing but still strangely enjoyable helped in no small way by the usual excellent performance of Annie Aldington
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- Tracy Tucker
- 24-02-23
It was okay,
I didn't get hooked. I did listen to the whole thing but at best it was mediocre. The narration was okay.
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