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Sep 20, 2013mzch rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
As an audiobook, "A Deniable Death" is hampered by the characters' cultivated anonymity combined with the author's use of omniscient third-person narrative. There is little to clue the listener in that he's transitioned from the bomb-making engineer to the British agent in charge of a covert mission to track and assassinate him, for example, as both are referred to as "he." It would be interesting to see how chapters or sections are formatted in the book. I'm not sure if there would be a preferable way to narrate the book, but the reader's rather dry approach is almost too good a match for the author's understated tone. Perhaps that's the desired flavor, but it's like listening to saltine crackers, only the salt doesn't get added until about disc 8, when a rather lunkheaded character code-named Badger starts to experience a moral awakening.