Audiobook Review: Jack of Spies by David Downing
Title: Jack of Spies
Author: David Downing
Read by: Gildart Jackson
Category: Spy Fiction
Audio published: May 13, 2014 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars
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It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty s Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in faraway London. He knows, though, that a geopolitical catastrophe is brewing, and now is both the moment to prove himself and the moment his country needs him most.
Unfortunately, this is also the...