Weapons of Choice
Axis of Time, Book 1
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Jay Snyder
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John Birmingham
About this listen
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. In 2021, a quantum military experiment goes horrifically wrong. A multinational taskforce of ultramodern warships is suddenly transported back in time to 1942...right into the path of the US naval battle group bound for Midway Atoll.
History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters.
Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand - each hoping to tip the balance with a fist full of 21st-century firepower. What happens next is anybody's guess - and everybody's nightmare.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-10-22
A great listen.
This is one of those books I have read many times over the years and I was thrilled when I joined audible and found it!
I think this audio book will be a frequent listen again.
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- Ruslan Kudryashov
- 19-11-24
Unfair towards narrator!
The concept and story are good so far. What I don’t understand is why so many people bash the narrator. Sounds perfectly good to me and better than some.
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- Mike
- 26-07-17
Good time travel book
Would you consider the audio edition of Weapons of Choice to be better than the print version?
I have all three of the audio books in this series and got through the them in 1 week.Te way the story develops is well paced and you get a good feel for the story. The way the groups in the books play off against each other is well thought out and the action is exciting. The way the futuristic weapons are used and historical characters portrayed is believable.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-24
Compelling story and great narration
Compelling storyline and great narration. Considering the amount of different accents spoken, a few of them being slightly “off” isn’t really such a big deal.
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- Michael
- 28-04-17
What a dreadful narrator!!!
I've been waiting for years for these books to come on the audio market, the story is a real boys own adventure, but why have they got this narrator, when he's doing an American character it's ok but when he try's a female one
It's laughable, a female British voice is dreadful, a female Australian voice OMG talk about Dick Van Dyke in Mary poppins.
It's a real shame they've really missed a trick here.
I still bought the trilogy through as I love JB's work.
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- Peter Odukwe
- 15-03-17
Absolutely Brilliant Trilogy
Simply one of the best books i have ever listened too Epic scale and content. A lot of thought has gone into this. Entire series download.. Narration by Jay Snyder was for me, excellent. Do not be off by some of the reviews. Make up your own mind.
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- Matthew Sagar
- 19-04-24
Mostly decent
I found some of it poor and obvious but much of it was entertaining - ripping yarn
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- JOD
- 03-06-24
Good
I thought it was a good idea for a story but I think it was too long, could easily have been half the size, the narrator was good.
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- Harry Dowdeswel
- 22-01-20
Good story, terrible performance
As others have said the accents are awful, the American performer Synder can only seem to do American accents.
His English accent tends to be as someone else has said, like Dick van Dyke, cringy bad.
His Scottish is awful too.
His Welsh is the worst impression ive ever heard is so bad its not even funny.
His Australian is really poor.
His German is ok but kind of makes me think of mustache-twirling villains whilst hes doing some of them.
The way he says Hawai is really irritating, i know its probably how its pronounced by the natives but I doubt Synder is from Hawai, not like we call Germany; Deutschland.
Why would they hire a person who cant do 50% of the accents is beyond me and have to take a lot of the blame for this, and to be honest the writers (Birmingham) take on how people from the UK speak is about 30 years out of date and taken from a sitcom or something.
Which is a shame because after listening to all of them I enjoyed the story quite a bit.
P.S. Julia Duffy is really annoying throughout and including John F. Kennedy I thought was shoehorned and stupid.
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- Matthew Downs
- 14-04-22
Really enjoyed the story as well as the narrator
After reading some of the previous reviews I was a bit sceptical about the narrating within this audio book however I personally really enjoyed it. There's a lot going on within this book especially at the start and with the multitude of characters, I enjoyed the differentiation between them by the narrator. yes it could be slightly cringy however it wasn't as bad as made out. Great listen
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