Horse Under Water

Written by:
Len Deighton
Narrated by:
James Lailey

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
5
Narrator
3
Release Date
April 2014
Duration
8 hours 40 minutes
Summary
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton's second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P).

The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today's Europe.

The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious - in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
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Rudy Z.

It is the first audiobook from Len Deighton and I thoroughly enjoyed this the book between Ipcress and Funeral. The narrator does a great impression of "MyCocaine" and other characters in the book, and the book has some really funny wit that was a surpise after hearing a number of John Le Carre books recently. I love the movies and TV series based on Len Deighton books including the Harry Palmer trilogy and 2 later TV movies and the Bernie Samson Game Set and Match TV series. It is too bad more of his books were not translated to film. He is perhaps my favorite spy novelist.

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Maria J.

It starts out at 5 stars, simply because it’s by Len Deighton, one of the 20th C’s greatest writers. This one is a bit “damned by faint praise” by some, relative to Funeral in Berlin and the Samson books, but it’s still head and shoulders above 99% of the Cold War spy field. And then James Layley’s incredible narration— just the right touch of Michael Caine, plus subtle characterizations and accents for a broad cast of Brits and non-Brits and Europeans of one ilk masquerading as nationals of another land…MASTERFUL. Leighton+ Lailey is one of those magical combinations which puts the product far beyond any 5 star category.

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