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The Shame Archive

An Elliot Kane Thriller

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The Shame Archive

By: Oliver Harris
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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How does a secret service confront its past, when its secrets must never be revealed?

Buried deep in MI6's digital archives is the most classified directory of all. It doesn't contain war plans or agent profiles, but shame: the misdeeds of politicians, royalty, business leaders and the service's own personnel.

There are seven decades' worth of images and recordings, usually acquired for the sake of assessing risk, sometimes as a guard against betrayal, often engineered by MI6 for their own purposes. They are the most sensitive two thousand terabytes of data in the Service's possession. When material from the archive begins appearing online, panic spreads through the Establishment like wildfire.

At first, the security breach only manifests itself in apparently random events: a suicide, a disappearance, a breakdown. But when it's discovered that the individuals concerned were all contacted by the same anonymous person, a connection comes into focus. The archive has been leaked. The hunt is now of unprecedented urgency before the entire political and business systems are fatally weakened. That's when they call for Elliot Kane...

©2024 Oliver Harris (P)2025 W. F. Howes Ltd.
Crime Thrillers Espionage Political Spies & Politics Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense

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Narration was excellent, as usual for Mr Mace.

The plot was very good, I was guessing until prettyclose to the end

Classic

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This is the first time I have encountered AI voice reading an audible book. Maybe it’s common practice, I don’t know . It generated a lot of inappropriate pauses. It really spoiled the enjoyment of what is an excellent story.

Infuriating AI voice

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