James Greville has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is The Spy Killer.
Arthur: Shadow of a God
Summary
King Arthur has fascinated the Western world for over a thousand years and yet we still know nothing more about him now than we did then. Layer upon layer of heroics and exploits has been piled upon him to the point where history, legend, and myth have become hopelessly entangled. In recent years, there has been a sort of scholarly consensus that "the once and future king" was clearly some sort of Romano-British warlord, heroically stemming the tide of wave after wave of Saxon invaders after the end of Roman rule. But surprisingly, and no matter how much we enjoy this narrative, there is actually next-to-nothing solid to support this theory except the wishful thinking of understandably bitter contemporaries. The sources and scholarship used to support the "real Arthur" are as much tentative guesswork and pushing "evidence" to the extreme to fit in with this version as anything involving magic swords, wizards, and dragons. Even archaeology refuses to speak out. Arthur is, and always has been, the square peg that refuses to fit neatly into the historians' round hole. Arthur: Shadow of a God gives a fascinating overview of Britain's lost hero and casts a light over an often-overlooked and somewhat inconvenient truth: Arthur was almost certainly not a man at all, but a god. He is linked inextricably to the world of Celtic folklore and Druidic traditions. Whereas tyrants like Nero and Caligula were men who fancied themselves gods, is it not possible that Arthur was a god we have turned into a man? Perhaps then there is a truth here. Arthur, "The King Under the Mountain", sleeping until his return will never return, after all, because he doesn't need to. Arthur the god never left in the first place and remains as popular today as he ever was. His legend echoes in stories, films, and games that are every bit as imaginative and fanciful as that which the minds of talented bards such as Taliesin and Aneirin came up with when the mists of the "dark ages" still swirled over Britain - and perhaps that is a good thing after all, most at home in the imaginations of children and adults alike - being the Arthur his believers want him to be.
©2019 Richard Denham (P)2019 Richard Denham
The Spy Killer
Summary
Ex-British spy John Smith is nearly broke, has bad teeth, is lousy in bed, and drinks too much. But he's no fool. He's a man who knows his own limitations and works within them. He blackmailed his way out of the secret service years ago and is barely making a living as a London private eye when his ex-wife comes calling and asks him to follow her philandering husband. But that sleazy, all-too-common job leads to some uncommon trouble...and Smith is thrown like a chunk of raw meat into a lion's den of international espionage, betrayal, and killing. His only hope of surviving is to outwit his clever and brutal adversaries at their own deadly game. "Very astutely plotted, with many surprising twists and a sharp bite," (The New York Times) "There's nothing ordinary about this adventure. It's big league intrigue." (Kirkus Reviews) "A deadly, cold, serious drama of counter-espionage." (Atlanta Constitution) "A witty spy story in the anti-James Bond tradition." (The Cedar Falls Courier) This novel was original published under the title Private I and was adapted into a feature film starring Robert Horton, Jill St. John, and Sebastian Cabot.
©2019 Jimmy Sangster (P)2019 Brash Books LLC