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Nemesis

By: Anthony Riches
Narrated by: Richard Fox
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They killed his sister. Now he'll kill them all.

Michael Bale is an elite close protection officer. That's why the Met police has given him the toughest job of all: guarding the Minister of Defence at a moment when Chinese-British relations have hit a deadly boiling point. And when Michael's life isn't on the line for his work, he's taking his chances waging war on a powerful London gang family. Their dealer supplied a lethal ecstasy pill to his sister, and Michael is determined to take them down, one at a time. But will he get away with it - or will his colleagues in the force realise that the man on an underworld killing spree is one of their own?

©2021 Anthony Riches (P)2021 W F Howes Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Espionage

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"Mickey Bale is a Jack Reacher for a harder, faster, more-assured millennium. Nemesis is the kind of book for which the word 'compelling' was coined." (Manda Scott)
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This tale centres around the actions of a Met Police close protection officer, who, whilst earning respect, decoration and admiration for his on-duty exploits in protecting a government minister from repeated assaults by teams of assassins, spends his downtime cold bloodedly and callously murdering at least nine civilians involved in London's underworld. All the while being manipulated by the mysterious and anonymous 'Nemesis', who has reasons of his own for facilitating the bloodletting.
A very good read, devoid of the usual agonising over the morality of doing what is necessary.

A gripping tale of amoral revenge.

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A well read clever story which pulled you in as it jogged along. The characters were believable & were bought to life by the narrator who used decent London accents. I'm now looking for the next Anthony Riches!

excellent

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slow to start but hang on to your hat this is a fast paced modern thriller

up to date thriller

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Having listened to all of Anthony Riches previous books based in Roman times to just to the present in this one I didn’t know what to expect would jumping to a modern setting let the listeners down. The simple answer to that is No this was a great listen and I would recommend it to anyone who particularly if you like Chris Ryan and Andy mcnab books.

Not the Anthony’s riches norm

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I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have several in the "He was ex-SAS/Navy SEAL/Spook/Agent/Special forces/lone wolf blah blah" action style. And yes, we all like a bit of escapism etc but I often find the 'hero' is basically an unhinged psychopath that we only forgive and accept because of his (yawn) tragic back story. Now, I understand it is these things that make the story in some sense but I can all get a little formulaic, dare I say tedious. Especially when the author has clearly no experience of an actual fight or unarmed combat, let alone fired a gun and yet insists on over cooking the goose with long highly detailed (and unrealistic) fight scenes. I'm glad to say Anthony has taken a more thoughtful approach and stuck with a narrative and believable characters rather than all action and invincible but flawed psycho protagonists.

I found the story worked and didn't fluff around, and even managed a few setups where it didn't quite go where I thought it would. On the whole it was a refreshing 'page' turner and I couldn't wait to get into the next chapter. I'm looking forward to the next installment.

The only negative for me was the narrator. That (to be fair) is perhaps more me but I found the 'geyser' wide-boy 'East Londin' style distracting at first. However, I got used to it and I guess it was in context... And it wasn't as bad as some of the Americanised books with squeaky 'female' voices.

If you're into Andy McNab and similar you'll enjoy it. And if you've not read anything in this genre before it's a good benchmark of where these books should be...

Refreshingly different and enjoyable action

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I liked this as it it didn’t really involve much thought, so I could just turn my brain off. Have already purchased the next one.

Good, easy listen.

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great use of military knowledge in a fast paced London set good triumphs over evil story. make it into a film.

Great diversion into 2020 from Roman times

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A good story fast paced story with excellent narration. I will buy the next book.

Great narration

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It goes to show great writing can effortlessly engage the reader in an authoritative high pace modern thriller. Riches’s Roman epics are up there with the best. Nemesis is also up there with the best in contemporary writing. Richard Fox narrates well and does a great job nailing a variety of London accents.

Riches excels in another genre

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Superb. Consistent quality from the author. From Romans to modern day it doesn’t matter. Each subject captured wonderfully. Action and depth.

Consistently great books

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