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Going Dark

By: Neil Lancaster
Narrated by: Guy Mott
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Going Dark is the debut crime thriller from former covert specialist Detective Sergeant Neil Lancaster.

Tom Novak is a troubled soul with a dark and bloody past. A former refugee, Royal Marine and member of the elite Special Reconnaissance Regiment, he now finds himself struggling with the deadening routine of day-to-day policing. When he is deployed undercover to infiltrate a gang of people traffickers, things go badly wrong. Faced with an impossible choice, his cover is blown, and he finds himself on the run from the Serbian mafia and even his fellow police colleagues. With no-one to trust, and his enemies using all the resources of the state against him, Tom has only one option: to Go Dark.

©2017 Neil Lancaster (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting

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Critic reviews

"If you like your thrills fast, gritty and authentic as all hell, then Going Dark should be top of your reading list." (Tony Parsons)
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All though I thought the story was fairly interesting, I nearly gave up several time due to the narration. The narrator was ok when delivering the various characters voices, but when simply reading the story his delivery was boring, tedious, lacklustre and uninteresting. I believe that he has been replaced for the next two novels in the series, I will most probably give them a listen as I like Neil Lancaster’s superior DS Max Craigie series, with excellent narration by Angus King

Good Story let down by the narrator

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Loved the story line but found the narrator declaimed the text a bit, ok it needed to be firm and hard hitting but felt like he was shouting it a bit. He need a bit more subtly, going to listen to the next in series as I am intrigued to lean more about Novak.

Not bad!

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A good and fast paced novel but the audio book was almost ruined by the silly hammed up German /American accent used for one of the characters.

Great story

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Great book, great pace to the story and the characters are well fleshed out. The narration was spot on and faded into the background while bringing everyone to life. It’s a bit like Jacker Reacher meets the Gray man but not as formulaic as Reacher’ and this doesn’t really do it justice!! well worth a credit!

So enjoyable!

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Good story but it is let down by the narrator attempting many different accents for the characters. If you can ignore that good listen

Narration

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Really enjoyed this & hope the author writes many more. Good storyline and well narrated. Sorry when it ended.

An excellent thriller

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Whilst Guy Mott is not the best narrator,he is not the worst either. I enjoyed the story. Tom Novak is a very different character to Max Craigie ! Perhaps this narrator chose his style to match the persona of the “hero” ? Worth a listen,in my opinion.

Guy Mott as narrator

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Quite a good plot but the characters were unreal and the story moved very slowly at the start.

Disappointing

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I really disliked Pets American/german accent putting a Z in front of a couple of words!!

Good plot

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After seeing that Stephen leather recommended this book on social media
I decided to give this a try and was not disappointed plenty of action and found i wanted to take the dogs for longer walks to find out what happened next
Well written agree Tom needs fleshing out a little bit more but if you want a listen that you will enjoy this has to be one to download

Great new author

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