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The Jonah
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Detective Jim Kelso, voiced by narrator Damian Lynch with a charming, everyman quality, is sent to a small coastal town to investigate how an average local family almost lost their lives from taking LSD. Lynch amps up the pace and tension as Kelso discovers the existence of a dangerous organization and begins to piece together the terrifying secret of the Jonah. Listeners will find themselves at the edge of their seats and unable to tear themselves away from this audiobook as Kelso edges closer and closer to the truth.
Summary
Half light. The shadow of his past was always with him. But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.
Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake. It's his past, his future, his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others.
James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.
Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant best-seller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.
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- Karen
- 11-01-23
Excellent
A thriller with a supernatural twist. A great build up of tension. We’ll worth a listen.
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- S B.
- 03-09-21
Great story , maybe a re edit tho?
there's nothing wrong at all with the story or the performance , just a couple of bad chapter changes and one repeated paragraph
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- Caroline
- 25-07-22
Not the best James Herbert, and not a great narrator
This narrator has a weirdly unnatural style which I didn’t enjoy.
The story was ok, but definitely not one of the better James Herbert books.
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- Amazon Customerm
- 17-05-22
brilliant
I put my iPods in so I could listen while I was busy the book is exciting and is extremely well read
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- Debbie McLean
- 28-05-22
ok
it was ok, not the best I've listened to of James Herbert but the narrator Damian Lynch was good xxxxxxx
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- carlos
- 28-11-22
Just about ok
Not the best James Herbert books , but It was included with audible, quite a weak story , but just about kept me interested
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- lisa hird
- 27-02-22
A classic
Love all of James Herbert's books. Worth a listen. Well written and well performed by Damian Lynch.
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- Retro Brit
- 16-05-22
Splendid thriller/horror
This was a superb read with another climatic paranormal ending. Distrust, horror, sympathy and sadness for our Jonah hero. 😃👍
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- Dominic
- 04-07-18
up to standard
i had read a lot of James Herbert's work. i enjoy the eay he writes as his characters are always well developed.
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- Dredddog
- 09-07-17
Interesting mash-up
This was an entertaining story, although not one of Mr Herbert's best. It is actually a bit of an experiment and must be one of the first crime/horror mash-ups written. It does this a little clumsily in places and when the horror does appear it sort of comes out of nowhere. The narrator was clear and fine most of the time. All in all, this was plenty of fun and definitely worth a read but not spectacular.
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