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The Vault

By: Mark Dawson
Narrated by: Atilla Akinci, Laila Alj Philip Arditti, Kieran Brown, Ben Cartwright, Stephen Critchlow, Vera Filatova, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Gerran Howell, David Menkin, Colin Morgan, Harry Myers, Erich Redman, Mac Keith Roach, Lizzie-Aaryn Stanton, David Thorpe
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West Berlin, 1986.

The Cold War has not yet thawed, political tensions inspire bloody retribution and trust is a rare commodity - even amongst allies.

Harry Mackintosh is the head of MI6’s Berlin Station. When four of his best field agents are murdered by the Stasi during a failed defection operation, he has no choice but to respond. East German intelligence has become increasingly ruthless. MI6 has been overrun. Mackintosh knows that he won’t be able to fight back, unless he’s provided with a new kind of operative.

London.

Belfast-born Jimmy Walker is a career criminal, desperate to leave the world of organised crime behind. He’s made just enough money to think about going straight. He wants to be a family man. He wants to stay alive for his wife and son. He wants to be the man they deserve.

He reluctantly agrees to one final job with the intention that it will be his last.

Little does Jimmy know that he’s been set-up. The sins of his past are about to catch up with him.

Framed, arrested and imprisoned, Jimmy is about to become a pawn in the politics, corruption and underground conflicts of Europe. Mackintosh appears in Jimmy’s Scotland Yard cell and makes him an offer. Go to Berlin to serve Queen and Country and he will be pardoned. The alternative? A life behind bars. Jimmy has no choice but to accept. He infiltrates East Berlin and, operating under cover as an arms buyer for the IRA, he works his way to the heart of the Stasi machine until he locates the defector. But all is not as it seems. Mackintosh has an ulterior motive. So does Jimmy. Neither man can trust the other and, as their objectives clash, it looks as if only one of them is going to get out alive.

Set in divided Berlin at a pivotal moment in history, and soaked in '80s nostalgia, The Vault is a thrilling adventure set in Mark Dawson’s million-selling Group Fifteen world.

Featuring: Atilla Akinci, Laila Alj Philip Arditti, Kieran Brown, Ben Cartwright, Stephen Critchlow, Vera Filatova, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Gerran Howell, David Menkin, Colin Morgan, Harry Myers, Erich Redman, Mac Keith Roach, Lizzie-Aaryn Stanton and David Thorpe.

©2018 Mark Dawson (P)2019 Audible, Ltd
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I wanted to like this book, but...

I wanted to like this book, but could just not 'get to grips' with the multi-cast. I mostly listen to audible in the car, and found with this book I had to constantly adjust the volume as each character changed. David Thorpe (the narrator) was excellent as always and I could not help wishing he alone had read this book without all these other annoying characters.

I have thoroughly enjoyed every other Mark Dawson book and rate his work highly. Just felt let down by this particular performance.

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Awful music and sounds

The sounds and music was not good. Distracted from the story and I almost didn’t finish the story. The use of different voices could have been good except that some voices were so soft that you could barely hear it and the next one was loud. The story line was ok I just don’t understand how professional spooks would make stupid mistakes like in the first part. This book brought the whole series down unfortunately.

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music intros drawn out otherwise 5star audio drama

almost 5 stars for the dramatic production
BUT music intros? Too long! although nice enough in themselves.

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fantastic book

excellent storyline, well read performance by all and would be awesome to hear more from this group. Highly recommend

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Hard Work

Just couldn't get anywhere near finishing. Awful narrator with too much volume variation, soft whisperings then loud sound effects.

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Ridiculous plot

Production, actors were great but story beggared belief, it was ' taking the Mick'.

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Did not like all the background noises

I like Mark Dawson books but found this ‘production’, with it’s background noises etc soo distracting. I found them annoying ie the noise of someone stripping down their weapons, or two characters kissing, if I’d wanted to hear all this detail, I’d watch a movie. I struggled to get through to the end.

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