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Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker, recognizing it for what it is, uses the key to unlock an anonymous door in the alleyway, which opens to an underground tunnel leading to Downing Street.
The Prime Minister has a small task for Cyrus Barker. A Foreign Office agent stole a satchel in Eastern Europe, but was then himself murdered at Charing Cross. The satchel contains a document desperately wanted by the German government, but while the agent was killed, the satchel remains in English hands. With a cold war brewing between England and Germany, it's in England's interest to return the document contained in the satchel to its original owners and keep it out of German hands.
The document is an unnamed first century gospel; the original owner is the Vatican. And the German government isn't the only group trying to get possession of it. With secret societies, government assassins, political groups, and shadowy figures of all sorts doing everything they can—attacks, murders, counter-attacks, and even massive street battles—to acquire the satchel and its contents, this small task might be beyond even the prodigious talents of Cyrus Barker.
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November 12, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781977369154
- File size: 282564 KB
- Duration: 09:48:40
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From the first words, the first scene, narrator Antony Ferguson delivers an intense Victorian spy thriller that is interspersed with swaths of dialogue and internal discourse. Clyde Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are a formidable team of private inquiry agents hired to deliver a mysterious package to Calais. Unknown foreign agents will murder and maim to abscond with the heavy parcel. Ferguson imbues Agent Barker with a smooth Scots accent, which contrasts with Llewelyn's lilting Welsh tones. Ferguson also produces a mix of high- and low-class British accents, audibly contrasting them with the accents of Italy, France, Germany, and Austria. Barker and Llewelyn use their considerable talents and wits to foil foreign agents and gain Scotland Yard's respect. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine -
September 2, 2019
Early in Thomas’s lackluster 11th Victorian mystery featuring private investigators Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn (after 2018’s Blood Is Blood), the pair are summoned to a secret meeting, where Lord Salisbury, the prime minister, informs them of the murder of Hillary Drummond, a Foreign Office operative. The day before, Drummond was stabbed with a sword by one of a group of young men wearing blue uniforms on a London street. Salisbury suspects that Drummond’s assailants followed him from somewhere on the Continent, but rather than have Barker and Llewelyn investigate the killing, he asks them to deliver a package to Calais. Drummond had secreted a key in his shoe, which led the Foreign Office to a railway locker containing a satchel. While the PM refuses to disclose what’s inside, Barker manages to learn that the contents are an ancient manuscript, which may be a previously unknown gospel that a scholar believes contains heretical ideas, such as giving money “generously to the poor.” Despite his instructions, Barker delays heading to France and concentrates instead on identifying who may be behind Drummond’s death. Action trumps detection in this outing. Series fans will be disappointed. Agent: Maria Carvainis, Maria Carvainis Agency.
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