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Resurrection Day

By: Brendan DuBois
Narrated by: Rich McVicar
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"Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them."

In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of the nuclear war. The crisis was averted, but what would have happened if war had broken out? In Resurrection Day, award-winning author Brendan DuBois brings this horrific concept to life.

©2014 Brendan DuBois (P)2015 Brendan DuBois Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction War Military Soviet Union Imperial Japan
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" Resurrection Day is the best 'what if' novel in years - more clever and resonant than Robert Harris's Fatherland - and all the more scary because disaster was minutes away from happening for real. A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever." (Lee Child)
"In his first novel outside of his acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris' 'Fatherland. DuBois postulates an America that has been politically devastated by a nuclear exchange arising from the Cuban missile crisis.... Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest." ( Publishers Weekly)
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I read this book many years ago and have picked it up to read several times since. It is an excellent story with an alternative history following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The audio narration is ok but, as a British person, I’m never going to be able to hear words like Manhattan or Paras again without thinking out absolutely ludicrous pronunciation the narrator used. He has clearly never heard an English accent and the producers should have stopped him. It almost ruined the experience of listening to the book. Almost.

Excellent interpretation of alternative history

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The story was okay but not brilliant. There were some plot holes and some things really didn't make sense but I could live with that.
The narrator was poor. The English accents were what an American who had never heard English people might imagine they speak. By the end, the rubbish accents and totally off pronunciation grated.

Okay(ish)

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Story is quite an entertaining alternative history ride.. But good god, the narrator *murders* English accents. Why? I'd far rather hear a story in an American accent all the way through than the weird mixture of Indian/Scottish/whoknows that the narrator comes up with when reading English parts.

Why do they kill accents?!

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Originally came across this book in hard copy and enjoyed the "what if" story line. but I have to say that the narrator in this audio book is frankly attrocious. I never thought I would consider Dick Van Dykes's accent in Mary Poppins as a polished performance; but you get the impression that the narrator of this audio book has never actually heard an English accent. it was almost so bad that several times I nearly gave up on the book.

good book, horrible narration

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Loved it, good narration if you can withstand the horrible imitated british accent!
A "must hear" if you enjoy counterfactual history.

Amazing book on what might have happened

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