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The Tudor Deception
- Author
- Scott Mariani
- Narrator
- Colin Mace
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 November 2023
- Run Time
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Adventure / action fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction
- Rating
- 4.0 (2 reviews)
What to expect
An unmissable thriller from the master of the genre
An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack.
Only one man can track down the killers that link them both.
It’s 2005: Ben Hope, recently retired from the military, is living in Ireland and using his SAS skills to find and rescue missing children.
But when asked to take on the case of two boys who disappeared centuries ago, he walks away, little realising he’s lit a fuse that will not only destroy the life of someone he cares about, but also lead him on a journey that proves old secrets come with a very modern price.
Ben must follow the trail across Europe, unravelling the mystery and dodging bullets as only he can. As the death toll ramps up, what is the connection between a murdered history professor, an English lord and a pretender to the Tudor throne – and can Ben find out the truth before the killers make him their next victim?
Critics Review
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‘Compelling from the first page until the last, Mariani and his fabulous protagonist Ben Hope entertain in a gripping tale that will have you turning the pages well into the night’ Mark Dawson
‘Thrilling. Scott Mariani is at the top of his game’ Andy McDermott
‘A high level of realism … the action scenes come thick and fast. Like the father of the modern thriller, Frederick Forsyth, Mariani has a knack for embedding his plots in the fears and preoccupations of their time’ Shots Magazine
‘James Bond meets Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code’ J. L. Carrell
‘History, action, devious scheming and eye-opening detail. Mariani delivers a twisting storyline’ David Leadbeater
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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3.0 5.0
I've read every book in the Ben Hope series by Scott Mariani and thoroughly enjoyed each one. Unfortunately, this one just wasn't up to his usual standard in my humble opinion. It was almost like a different author wrote it. It was slow, too much ancient history which accounts for half the book ruined it for me, not to mention the plot was ludicrous
Hojohns 2024-07-14
Details
- Author
- Scott Mariani
- Narrator
- Colin Mace
- Duration
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9780008601133
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Adventure / action fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
An unmissable thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack. Only one man can track down the killers that link them both. It’s 2005: Ben Hope, recently retired from the military, is living in Ireland and using his SAS skills to find and rescue missing children. But when asked to take on the case of two boys who disappeared centuries ago, he walks away, little realising he’s lit a fuse that will not only destroy the life of someone he cares about, but also lead him on a journey that proves old secrets come with a very modern price. Ben must follow the trail across Europe, unravelling the mystery and dodging bullets as only he can. As the death toll ramps up, what is the connection between a murdered history professor, an English lord and a pretender to the Tudor throne – and can Ben find out the truth before the killers make him their next victim?
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