Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • The Arms Maker of Berlin

  • A Novel
  • By: Dan Fesperman
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Arms Maker of Berlin

By: Dan Fesperman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £23.99

Buy Now for £23.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives. But what's in the archives is staggering: a spymaster's trove missing since the end of the war, one that Gordon has always claimed is full of "secrets you can't find anywhere else...Live ammunition."

Key documents are still missing, however, and Nat believes Gordon has hidden them. The FBI agrees, and when Gordon is then found dead in jail, the Bureau dispatches Nat to track down the material, which has also caught the interest of several dangerous competitors. Following a trail of cryptic clues left behind by Gordon, and assisted by an attractive German academic with questionable motives, Nat's quest takes him to Bern and Berlin. His path soon crosses that of Kurt Bauer, an aging German arms merchant still hoarding his own wartime secrets. As their tales - and Gordon's - intersect across half a century, long-buried exploits of deceit, devotion and doomed resistance begin working their way to the surface. As the stakes rise, so do the risks.

Here is Dan Fesperman's most thrilling, unexpected, and satisfying novel yet.

©2009 Dan Fesperman (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Increment cover art
A Dangerous Road cover art
Snapshot cover art
Soon cover art
The Bookseller cover art
Prince of Spies cover art
Charlie M cover art
Truman's Spy cover art
The Last of the Stanfields cover art
The Short Drop cover art
Autumn in Oxford cover art
Edith and Kim cover art
The Hellfire Club cover art
In the Blood cover art
Agent in Berlin cover art

What listeners say about The Arms Maker of Berlin

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    9
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    6
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    6
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

An absolute must!

This books starts of a little slow but after a few minutes you are hooked and just want to listen and listen and listen. The narration is superb and I now intend to listen to other books by this narrator. I did not want this book to finish whilst at the same time needing to know what happens. I am not going to give away the plot but this is a book I would highly recommend and would give it 100 stars if such a rating was availble.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

Good stuff

This was my first Dan Fesperman book. It perhaps lacks the edginess of, say, John Le Carre's best spy-thriller books, particularly in the denouement, but it is nevertheless very well written with an intriguing plot and likeable and well drawn characters; I certainly will be tempted to try the author's other books. Dick Hill' narration captures the author's tone brilliantly, his judgement of pace is perfect and he draws the characters just right - a very enjoyable audiobook.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An epic work, meticulously researched

This is a hugely ambitiously novel, taking in the White Rose resistance movement in Germany along with an analysis of how the past affects the present. Dan Fesperman never disappoints in the effort and research undertaken to support his work. The kind of novel you may need to read more than once to appreciate all the details.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!