David Black has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Turn Left for Gibraltar.
Turn Left for Gibraltar
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As 1941 draws to a close, brave young men are fighting for freedom in countries across the globe. But for Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, washed up in neutral Spain alongside 'interned belligerents' from both sides of the war, hostilities have come to a pause. Before long, his unlikely comrades must once again become his enemies, and he is back at the frontline of the battle for the Mediterranean. But aboard the submarine HMS Umbrage, operating in the waters off Malta, Harry is soon reminded that allies can be more dangerous than foes. When his volatile skipper is lost at sea, it falls to Harry to take charge of the boat - and of the lives of the men who now depend on him. Ashore, there is another lesson: how war drives its wedge between more than just nations. Shirley is waiting for him back in Scotland, but the world offers many distractions for a young man...As Malta is besieged from the air and home seems ever further away, Harry must summon all his courage not only to stay alive - but also to forge in himself the nerve and the wisdom necessary to shoulder the responsibility of command.
©2017 David Black (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved
Die Rache des Voodooprinzen
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Die Trainees der Sinclair Academy kämpfen gegen eine Horde Zombies, die auf Londons Friedhöfen ihr Unwesen treibt. Eigentlich genug Arbeit für die jungen Geisterjäger. Doch dann wird auch noch Staysys Mutter, die Voodoopriesterin Ezili Cole, aus ihrer Wohnung entführt. Ein längst vergessener Feind ist nach London gekommen, um Rache an Ezili Cole zu nehmen für das, was sie ihm vor Jahrzehnten angetan hat. Und er ist mächtiger als jemals zuvor... Die SINCLAIR ACADEMY ist ein streng geheimes Trainingszentrum für junge Agenten. Sie untersteht dem Scotland Yard, und wie ihr Begründer und Mentor, der legendäre Oberinspektor John Sinclair, jagen die Trainees der Academy keine gewöhnlichen Gangster - sie jagen Dämonen, Geister und Vampire.
©2017 Bastei Lübbe (P)2017 Lübbe Audio
Onna - Die Frau mit der Fratze
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Eine Geisterfrau mit einer abstoßenden Fratze treibt in den Docklands von London ihr Unwesen. Als der Geist einem kleinen Mädchen mit einer Schere das Gesicht zerschneidet, werden die Trainees der Academy gerufen. Sachiko reißt den Fall an sich, will ihn auf eigene Faust lösen und verweigert die Hilfe der anderen Geisterjäger. Doch Jack lässt sich nicht so einfach abwimmeln. Weiß Sachiko mehr über die Vorfälle als sie zugeben möchte? Zur gleichen Zeit versuchen Hassan und Staysy eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft zu entziffern - nichts ahnend, dass sie damit den Schlüssel zur Rettung von Sachiko in den Händen halten... Die Sinclair Academy ist ein streng geheimes Trainingszentrum für junge Agenten. Sie untersteht dem Scotland Yard, und wie ihr Begründer und Mentor, der legendäre Oberinspektor John Sinclair, jagen die Trainees der Academy keine gewöhnlichen Gangster - sie jagen Dämonen, Geister und Vampire... Inszenierte Lesung mit Geräuschen & Musik.
©2016 Bastei Lübbe (P)2016 Lübbe Audio
Gone to Sea in a Bucket
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Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it. Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance. But then Lieutenant Peter Dumaresq steps in to offer him a lifeline - an advanced navigation course that will take him aboard a crack submarine, HMS Pelorus, under the command of a Royal Navy hero. Faced with a possible court martial, Harry chooses life underwater. Once aboard, however, Harry is confronted for the first time by the full horror of submarine warfare. If he can just overcome his fears, it will be the making of him. Because survival itself is the challenge now. For Harry and the rest of the crew, the next depth charge could be the one that sinks them.
©2015 David Black (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
The Bonny Boy
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A wartime sub prowls the Med...but who is the enemy? It is 1942. Lt. Harry Gilmour has already made a name for himself in the Royal Navy submarine service. He has risked his life to save a fellow seaman after his first boat, HMS Pelorus, is rammed and sunk in the North Sea. He’s played a leading role in HMS Trebuchet’s epic foray into a fjord in the then-neutral Soviet Union to scatter German ships secretly assembling to invade Iceland. And as number three on HMS Umbrage in the Mediterranean, he had assumed command after her skipper had been lost overboard and gone on to attack an Italian cruiser squadron. Yet he is only an RNVR officer - a wavy-navy wunderkind. But when he gets his own submarine as the Royal Navy supports Montgomery’s Eighth Army campaign, an unexpected enemy looms on the horizon. Harry comes face-to-face again with Captain Charles "Bonny Boy" Bonalleck, skipper of the doomed Pelorus and now in charge in the Med. Harry blames the Bonny Boy for the tragedy - and has told him to his face. Can Harry trust Bonalleck’s offer to let bygones be bygones? Will the mission he is sent on help end the war - or end his career? David Black is the author of the Harry Gilmour series of novels set in the Royal Navy submarine service during the Second World War. He also wrote All the Freshness of the Morning, a fictionalized account of President John F. Kennedy’s epic wartime service as skipper of the US Navy torpedo boat PT-109 during the Solomons’ campaign against the Japanese in the South Pacific. Black is a former UK national newspaper journalist and TV documentary producer. He now lives in Argyll and writes full time.
©2019 David Black (P)2020 David Black
What to Do When the Shit Hits the Fan
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Would you know how to prepare for an unforeseen emergency, or handle an unexpected disaster? With real-world considerations in mind, disaster preparedness consultant David Black shows us how to stay alive when tragedy strikes. His step-by-step actions can help us make it safely through a variety of crises, from catastrophic weather to terrorism to civil unrest. Black presents tailor-made plans for individuals, businesses, organizations, small groups, and communities to follow, in all regions of the country and broken down by type of emergency and environment. In addition, he provides a hierarchy for response including communication, healthcare, food, water, and shelter in the absence of institutions and commercially available services and supplies.
©2007 David Black (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin
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Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating - and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife. So when Radegonde is sent on a mission to Martinique, it's vital that these proud men learn to work together, especially as it seems everyone from Churchill to de Gaulle - not to mention Hitler - has a stake in the outcome. Will Harry be able to navigate these dangerous waters safely and return with hard-won wisdom, or will old enemies arise to sink him?
©2016 David Black (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Before the Reign Falls
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During the renovation of a decrepit old barn by several friends, the chance finding of various old manuscripts lodged between some wall cavities reveals clues to a mystery that goes back over four and a half centuries to the time of Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, and Lady Jane Grey, who is often referred to as the Nine Day Queen. Told from several viewpoints, the startling story of Lady Jane Grey finally comes to light as the previously unknown last moments of her life involving mystery, intrigue, politics, and love come to an explosive ending that may even force a revision of the history books.
©2019 David Black (P)2019 David Black