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The Paladin
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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David Ignatius
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When a daring, high-tech CIA operation goes wrong and is disavowed, Michael Dunne sets out for revenge.
CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
Dunne knows it’s illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has never refused an assignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his cover disintegrates. When news of the operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while on the job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and take vengeance on the people who destroyed his life.
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- jwfxpr
- 04-12-2024
Good story, awful narration
A spy vs spy thriller for the AI age, this is a fun, enjoyable story. A flawed hero chasing vengeance and vindication in a global game of cat and mouse. Good stuff.
But the narrator is just terrible. Our main character is a fit and healthy, muscular, attractive mid-career man of action. Who on earth decided to cast a wheezy, muttering, breathless old man to read this?! The narration is delivered in short, sharp, rapid spurts as the reader seems to genuinely struggle to breathe. This is the only book I have ever slowed down to 90% speed just to make the words clear enough to understand. Really made a good story very hard to enjoy.
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