The Dead Can Wait
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The Dead Can Wait
Narrated by:
Richard Burnip
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Richard Burnip
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Robert Ryan
About this listen
Dr John Watson is back home, fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields. The horrors of war weigh heavy on his mind, and now his task is to help rehabilitate soldiers suffering from the crippling effects of shell-shock.
But the war is not yet over and in one corner of England lies a secret, one that the establishment is determined to keep under wraps. For in the woodlands of the lush countryside, the government is building the secret weapon which will win the war for Britain. Here, they are developing the land ship - never-before-seen 'tanks' which the army is convinced will end the stalemate on the Western Front.
But then disaster strikes. After a training exercise in one of the tanks, eight men are mysteriously struck down, seven of them dead. There is just the one survivor, and he's not talking. It is clear something is horribly wrong, and the army calls in the only man who will know how to solve the mystery: Dr John Watson.©2014 Robert Ryan (P)2015 Simon & Schuster
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Interminable...
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Richard Burnip narrates well and his Winston Churchill is recognisable. An excellent WW1 novel sprinkled with factual data. Well worth a credit. :)
Good follow up.
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There, I've just summarised the first 12 chapters. (Yes, I did say 12 Chapters) To say the pace is slow would be an understatement. And I suppose it will always be a pitfall for any author writing about Dr Watson, but if he's mentioned Sherlock Holmes once he's done it a dozen times, and it's starting to get tiresome. Either this is a Dr Watson book or a Sherlock Holmes book, please decide.
The narration by Richard Burnip is very good, although he has also fallen into a trap when voicing Winston Churchill's lines, where he uses the famous 'Fight them on the beaches' voice of Churchill's later WWII years.
I dunno, I'm a third of the way in and I truly am not engaged by this title. There's no suspense at all, and none of the characters seem real in any way. I will try to persevere but I doubt I'll make it to the end...
Just Not Grabbing Me...
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