Comrade Charlie [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Brian Freemantle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2006

Demoted to a low-grade clerk for his abrasive personality, Charlie Muffin stumbles onto a British traitor entangled in a high-stakes KGB intelligence-gathering mission.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Intricate, funny and highly satisfying, this fast-paced thriller again features veteran British intelligence agent Charlie Muffin, last seen in See Charlie Run . Here he is in operational limbo, dogged by the acting director general Richard Harkness, whose nitpicking rules may be designed to get rid of the freewheeling agent. Charlie's old KGB enemy Berenkov is also gunning for him, using his former lover Natalia (herself a KGB agent) as bait in a trap constructed of threatened Star Wars secrets. The Reds run two traitors--an American industrialist and a British bigamist--while setting up Charlie, who has discovered the operation. Meanwhile, Harkness builds a case to prove that the working-class, foulmouthed Charlie is himself a traitor. But in a series of countermoves (some of which are kept from the reader), Charlie brilliantly confutes all enemies and apparently wins back Natalia in an entrancing, breathtaking denouement. Billed as an historical thriller (in light of the changes in Russia since the book was first published in England in 1989), Charlie's latest escapade should send new readers scurrying to find earlier Charlie Muffin tales.
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From AudioFile

The incorrigible British agent Charlie Muffin is back, but no James Bond is he. It's the late 1980s, and the Soviet Union is beginning to crumble. Moscow, intending to beat the U.S. Star Wars program, schemes to gain vital intelligence. Muffin, whose been demoted by his British superiors, inadvertently walks into the thick of things. Hayward Morse has a pleasant voice; he's great when playing a cultured Briton and credible when performing several Russian characters. However, he's miscast as Charlie, who is as far from proper, as you can imagine. Still, Morse's reading and Freemantle's writing bring back memories. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Soundings Ltd; Unabridged edition (February 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845590406
• ISBN-13: 978-1845590406
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition--he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Bad Story, April 7, 2002

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John G. Hilliard (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comrade Charlie (Hardcover)

A good one from the old cold war days of spy thrillers. The author does a solid job with his writing and does keep the story moving. I have noticed that the more books he puts out the less is getting edited away, and my opinion is that is close to including too much that will slow the stories down. I would suggest The Blind Run from this author as one of his better works. There are the prerequisites multiple plots and trouble main character you find in most books of this type. All in all not a bad effort.