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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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Summary

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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Mark Dawson has drawn wonderful characters in The Vault that you really believe in and I was totally rooting for Jimmy. Action-packed and full of thrilling twists and turns, you'll find yourself walking around the block so that you can keep on listening!

- Frances, Audible Editor
Mark Dawson

About the author

Mark Dawson is a prolific thriller writer best known for his espionage hero John Milton. Born in 1973 in the seaside town of Lowestoft, Dawson embarked on a career as a lawyer while writing in his spare time. Discovering independent self-publishing, Dawson made his name through e-books and forged a direct connection to his readership.

Dawson has entered into a strong partnership with Audible, who produce exclusive audiobooks of the Milton series; 2018’s Twelve Days being the fifteenth adventure. His Beatrix Rose spin-off series features a female assassin working for a government kill squad, with several Audible audiobook adaptations available. Beginning with White Devil in 2015, other releases include 2019’s Tempest.

Colin Morgan

About the performer

Colin Morgan's theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer For My Daughter, Vernon God Little (Young Vic) and All About My Mother (The Old Vic).

Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and The Dead, The Fall and Merlin.

His film credits include The Happy Prince, Legend, Testament of Youth, Island and Waiting for You.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

About the performer

Born in Ghana and raised in Surrey, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is an Olivier award-winning stage and screen actor and audiobook narrator. A teenage curiosity about acting grew into a resolution that nothing else would do. Early television roles were in shows as diverse as Little Britain and Judge John Deed. He has been seen on the big screen in Paddington 2, Mary Poppins Returns and super-hero movies Justice League and Doctor Strange.

On stage, he has appeared at the National, the Globe, the Young Vic and the National Theater of Korea in works by August Wilson, Bertolt Brecht and Tom Stoppard as well as Sophocles and Shakespeare. In 2019 Holdbrook-Smith won the Olivier Award for Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Ike Turner in TINA: The Tina Turner Musical.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is the regular narrator of Ben Aaronvitch’s Rivers of London series and is now synonymous with the series. He also contributed to Audible’s Dickens Collection with his performance of Nicholas Nickleby and has also read several other titles. His voice is often heard on Radio 4, appearing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service opposite Toby Stephens’ James Bond, and as John the Disciple in Judas.

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From a whisper to a shout

I had to give up with this one, the sound levels were just too far apart. Missed dialogue because it was too quiet, turn the volume up and the loud bits are too loud.

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Would have preferred just a narrator

Naff musical interludes, long pauses, differing audio volume levels. Amateur production all round really.
Good story otherwise

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Amazing , thrilling performances

the best audio book ive listened too since Bernard Hepton in Smileys People ie original BBC Le Carre. Fantastic performances brought the book to life. well written pacy and twisty. love the characters. highly recommended

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Very good listen characters brilliantly created
Book very well written and narrator portrayed
Them to such a degree I felt I knew them
Dramatized very well good listen

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Loved it.

Great story. Hoping this sets up a series like the John Milton one! Many thanks.

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Good Book but

Very hard to listen to due to all the whispering sections and needing to adjust the volume constantly

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a must read for all. couldn't put it down

brilliant book ckdnt put down. Author good would request another.
looking forward to the next one.

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Unstoppable listen.

One of Thee best books iv ever listened and believe me I have many an audio book.
The narration is perfectly in tune with each character.
The story itself is very authentic, unpredictable and an excellent plot.
Would highly recommend.

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Good story

Great story and well performed. Struggled to hear the actors at times - would be better if they didn’t talk same time as narration.

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Tension double agent lies surprise

Well thought out plan in Berlin in Cold War Half truths self preservation greed hatred personal agenda and surprises

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