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The Veteran

Five Heart-Stopping Stories

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The Veteran

By: Frederick Forsyth
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee, Bruce Boxleitner, Christopher Cazenove
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From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth - best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File - comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.

Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in “The Veteran” (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in “The Art of the Matter” (also read by Macnee). The additional stories recount a persecution in 16th century Sienna (“The Miracle” - read by Christopher Cazenove), a mid-flight drug smuggling heist (“The Citizen” - also read by Macnee), and the lone survivor of Custer's Last Stand (“Whispering Wind” - read by Bruce Boxleitner). Mixing together the elements of great suspense - revenge, mystery, murder and deception - this collection is Forsyth at his best.

©2001 Frederick Forsyth (P)2001 Phoenix Books, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Short Stories Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting England
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Usual excellent collection you’d expect from the master storyteller, only marred slightly by the almost impenetrable narration by Mcnee. He sounds so old he can barely form the words and his character voices are all ultra slow drawling like something you’d expect in a deathbed confession

Great collection marred by narration

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I have 150 audible books in my library and I rate this short story collection as one of the best.

Master story teller

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Good listen especially the last short story which was a very clever, inspiring tale. Frederick Forsyth at his best.

The veteran

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stories excellent and all really well read. Very enjoyable and very sorry that it is over

very good stories.

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Fredrick Fforsyth is a master story teller and his works come to life with a good narator

The last story about the frontiers man

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