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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 Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Suspense Mystery

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Another enjoyable Mick Herron story which starts small and builds and builds with twists and turns and misdirection. The narration helps bring it to life.

Twists and turns and misdirection

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I'm as devoted to the Jackson Lamb/Slough House series every bit as much as the next Mick Herron fan, so I expected Reconstruction to fall a bit flat by comparison. It didn't. I thought it was a superb novel with vivid characters and a tense, tight plot. Having almost all the events take place on a single day seems to me a difficult device, one which Mick Herron pulled off skillfully and with all the dark humour and twists that we hope for in his work. Absolutely loved it.

More excellence from Mick

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Certainly engaging and well-constructed. The narration is also good (albeit different to the Slough House series).

Not as compelling as Slough House etc but worth listening to

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The story resolved itself into something reasonably interesting but overall was ponderous.
The reading was poor. Increasing the speed helped

Slow moving

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It's very well read. The story is a good one. Although it starts slowly, with little action and a lot about characters' thoughts and feelings (which I hadn't chosen the book for) it makes up for it later.

Gains momentum

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Lots to commend this book, but I had worked out who the villain of this story was (and who wasn’t!) quite early. I also was not too keen on the ending I am afraid, that might say more about me as I don’t like being left hanging, wondering what happened to the characters (unless there is a sequel!

A tad predictable?

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Enjoyed the book, good story, well written. Narration, in any other world would have been very good, however, it is hard not to yearn for Sean Barrett but that is just my guilty pleasure....was very well read

Nice but not Slough House

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Great book but the narrator was so off putting that I almost gave up - pantomime voices that distract from the story

Great story terribly read

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Keeps you guessing all the way through. Possibly Herron's plot best although all the Slough House novel are intelligent, witty and absorbing. This one features Bad Sam Chapman, who isn't really that bad as one character points out (but perhaps not in this story). One cautionary note - for unknown reasons the audio begins with a personal excerpt from the reader talking about the challenges of reading Herron's works. Skip that. The story speaks for itself. Surprise ending which I won't give away.

First class Mick Herron novel

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I really enjoyed much of Herron's early writing here, and the enjoyable twist. Sadly, the narrator (who is clearly talented) was completely miscast. I'd love to hear this read by Sean Barratt.

Some excellent passages of writing, but the completely wrong narrator

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