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Stay Alive

By: Simon Kernick
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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About this listen

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless, The Last 10 Seconds, Siege, and Ultimatum.

One witness

You’re on a trip with your family, miles from anywhere. A shot rings out - and your whole life changes in an instant.

One secret

A woman is racing towards you, chased by three gunmen. Although you don’t know it, she harbours a deadly secret. She’s in terrible danger. And now you are, too.

No escape

You’re running, terrified, desperate to find safety. You know that the men hunting you have killed before. And if they catch you, you’ll be next.…

©2014 Simon Kernick (P)2013 Random House Audiobooks
Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting

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"Brilliant" ( Sunday Mirror)
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Would only recommend to a brave friend living far away from the Scottish highlands who is never alone in the woods or hills.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Stay Alive?

So many frying pan to fire moments for people that I genuinely cared about.

What about Paul Thornley’s performance did you like?

Great delivery of a tight story drawing the reader into the jeopardy of the vulnerable characters.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Even the highlands aren't safe!

Any additional comments?

The only book my girlfriend has listened in one sitting as she was to scared for casey and jess to stop.

Terrifying and addictive

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Much enjoyed book. good flow to the story. Would recommend. Looking for another Kernick book to listen to straight away. Decent narrator also.

good book.

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I really enjoy Simon Kernick's books, and like the Scope character a lot.

This was a good yarn as usual, but there were a couple too many plot turns requiring me to suspend disbelief for me to rate it 5 stars.

Good, but not so good as previous ones.

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Some tedious and extended passages of repetitious chases of the goodies by the baddies spoil this thriller. DCS Boult a good part but where was Tina Boyd??

Not the best plot line

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Action packed as always and keeps you guessing till the end. Can't wait to listen to the next one now.

Love Simon Kernick's books

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Not the best thriller. The narrator is OK, but he speaks with the same rhythm and inflections in every sentence which gets a bit dull. The story is fairly ordinary and the last half an hour or so has an explanation of how and why shoe-horned into it. Overall it is a fairly average storyline read by a fairly ungifted narrator

Not fantastic.

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Enjoyable enough and breaks from the normal Simon Kerning plots a bit. If you are a fan of them you'll enjoy it. If you've not read his stuff before try severed or rentless first they are superior books.

Simon Kerning Fan

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Kept me spellbound. The narrator brought the story alive. Every time I had to pause I could not wait to get back to continuing listening to an excellent story.

Excellent storyline.

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I enjoyed the author's book Last Ten Seconds so knew his style would probably be a pacy thriller that takes the listener on a roller-coaster experience. However after a gripping start and intriguing early chapters the present story descends into just too many situations of jeopardy, bodies piling up and lonely parts of the Highlands of Scotland apparently inhabited by Russian gangsters, paedophiles, corrupt policemen, hit men and gun-totting grannies. There's little in the way of character-development and no respite from action. I think the story needed a few quiet interludes to slacken the relentless pace. It's all a bit too macho for my taste, though the narrator does a great job and must have been exhausted by the end!

Overly frenetic thriller

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Enoyed this book very much..sad it has ended. It held my attention through a rollercoaster of fast-moving adventures...I recommend it whole-heartedly.

NAIL-BITING, FAST-PACED THRILLER

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