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The Fox
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fox by Frederick Forsyth.
The 18th novel from best-selling thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, the man who defined the genre.
The Fox is based on the stories of British hackers Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love and centres around an 18-year-old schoolboy with Asperger’s Syndrome who is able to penetrate intricate firewalls to access the secrets at the highest level of foreign governments and other major organisations.
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"Forsyth is a magnificent storyteller." (Daily Mail)
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- Simon
- 21-09-18
Not Quite Such a Cunning Fox!
For once, with this author, when a publisher puts extravagant claims in their blurb it's hard to argue. Frederick Forsyth has written some of the all-time thriller greats so deserves the ultimate respect. They suggest he defined the thriller genre so is he still at the leading edge all these years later? He certainly throws a lot at this book to make it up to date and relevant with everything from Novichok to computer hacking being cast into the mix!
For me David Rintoul was more the star here with his superbly smooth narration which I always enjoy. The story itself relies on the now well-used super teenage hacker who can do things that no-one else can and in fact the first way they use his skills made me smile. However, I never felt that the characters came to life and the story was a fairly repetitive re-hash of the same thing happening in different ways.
It still felt that it had some of Forsyth's classy writing and one or two of the various secret service types made for good characters so with that excellent narration it's certainly not bad but Forsyth is no cyber security expert and this won't go down as one of his greatest hits.
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- Robert Precious
- 24-09-18
Good story.
Very up to date plausible,well told and always interesting.Absorbing read.i listened to it all through in two sittings. Unstoppable.
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- susan
- 29-09-18
Don't Waste a Credit
This is a truly badly written book, and then he suddenly lost his skill??? Sadly Frederick Forsyth has lost his skill.
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- Watcher
- 25-10-19
Just brilliant
Well researched and topical story which is quite believable. An excellent book which I could not put down
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- Jacky
- 30-09-18
Utter Rubbish
We were so shocked to think that Frederick Forsyth could have written this - or if it was ghost written for him, that he should have put his name to it. Either age and dementia have set in or it is just riding on the name of a once brilliant author. The fact that it has 4.3 stars suggests that the positive reviews have been fabricated.
The plot was so tedious, repetitious and insulting to the intelligence of anyone over the age of 8 years old. The facts were often wrong. The patronising history lessons interjected tedious prose. It was not read well, over acted in places and generally facile.
Do not waste your money.
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- gary round
- 19-10-20
1st Class
An excellent story,and fabulous narration i would expect nothing less from the master, Frederick Forsyth.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-09-18
Excellent Forsyth Story
The author has lost none of his ability to write a spell binding novel. a
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- alastair gray
- 26-01-24
full marks creativity
this was an exciting believable story, good to see good guys win. look forward to next adventure
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- Helen D.
- 04-01-24
Great Story
Great author intertwined reality with fiction beautifully. An insight into how the spy world might work!
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- margot manning
- 24-12-23
splendid
l like the level of detail and story telling by a great narrator and author
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