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  • Wolf in Shadow

  • Jon Shannow, Book 1
  • By: David Gemmell
  • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (240 ratings)
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Wolf in Shadow

By: David Gemmell
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
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Summary

It is 300 years since the world toppled on its axis and civilisation was destroyed. In this savagely reshaped world ruled by brigands and war makers, a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a dream to calm the violence in his soul, Jon Shannow, the brigand slayer, desires only peace. But from the Plague Lands emerges a fresh terror.

The Lord of the Pit and his hell-born army seek to plunge mankind into a new demonic era. Seemingly invincible, they make a fatal mistake: they take Shannow's woman for blood sacrifice. And find themselves facing the deadliest warrior of the new age: Jon Shannow - the Jerusalem Man.

©2017 David Gemmell (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group

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good book rubbished by narrators crappy accents.

narrators attempt at accents really poor. Turned Jon Shannow into Jason Statham doing a cockney hard man!!!

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Jerusalem man at his best.

I bought this book in 87, thirty years later still a great story to listen to.

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Nope. Skip this one

Do legend or another Gemmell book- this one was awful with the accents and storyline. Sorry guys this was a turkey.

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Awesome Story

I got hooked on David Gemmel through his Drennai books, then his Sipstrassi books surpassed even those. So when I found them on audio I had to have them. True, the narration could be a little better, but if you don't allow that to detract from the story then you're in for a shell of a ride. To be honest, I didn't find Christian Rodska all that bad as a narrator, certainly not as bad as others have made him out to be (except for the Chinese accent). I'm just glad I didn't let the negativity over the narrator deter me from getting this amazing audio book.

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Good

Great story and I personally thought the narration was good. Nice haveing some regional diversity.

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Great storytelling

Absolutely love David Gemmell. Overall the performance was great. As with any narration. Voice performance by a man of a woman and vice versa can seem a little odd. One or two accents were amusing. The Donna and Eric characters reminded me of the comedian Johnny Vegas. 🤣

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Brilliant

David Gemmells work is amazing as always.
Audible never fails to deliver on my favourite author.

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Good story, poor accents

Enjoyed the books in the past… story is compelling. However, although the narrator gives a good account of himself, the various accents, become annoying. These vary from a Manchester to northern accents, which spoil the story, becoming farcical.

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I love Gemmell, but…

It’s not his greatest work. I’ve never been much of a fan of ‘post apocalyptic’ novels and this is no different. It gets a bit too weird (even for fantasy) for me. In his Drenai novels he gets the blend right, but here it’s just too fantastically unbelievable. The narrator is all over the place as well, one minute they are Welsh, the next Geordie. A bit of a mish mash.

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A good listen, gemmell never disapoints

An new and interesting take for fantasy for me
, would make a great open world game!

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