The Shadowers, Donald Hamilton
The Shadowers, Donald Hamilton
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The Shadowers

Author: Donald Hamilton

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 04/14/2015

Synopsis

In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission yet: matrimony.An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, but he’s not the kind of guy a woman would marry—unless she has to in order to maintain an ingenious cover. The man whose daily bread is violence takes a most unlikely bride—just to ensure death doesn’t part them.

About Donald Hamilton

Donald Hamilton (1916–2006) was the creator of Matt Helm, star of twenty-seven novels that have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, attended the University of Chicago, and served in the US Naval Reserve. His writing career began in 1946 with short stories for Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. His first novel was Date with Darkness, published in 1947, and altogether he published thirty-eight novels. The first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen, was originally published in 1960, at the height of the Cold War.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin)

An evil and dangerous man has a plan to kill a large number of leaders and important people, a mass assassination. So Matt Helm is forced into one of the most dangerous, the most threatening, the most deadly situations he faces in the entire series of books! He has to get married. Yes, a real marriage......more

Goodreads review by Werner

Note, June 10, 2020: I've just done some minor edits to a few parts of this review. which didn't change any of the assessment of the book. Like some other reviewers, I wouldn't class this one as among the author's best works (even considering the limited number of them I've read). It has much in comm......more

Goodreads review by Jim

April2018 I liked this better this time through. There are maybe a dozen characters all told & they're very well done. Hamilton has a way of describing them & taking apart motives that is intriguing. This was quite twisty & often brutal, but never gory. Hamilton makes it clear that bad things happen......more

Goodreads review by Tom

The 7th book in the Matt Helm series has him traveling to New Orleans and Pensacola trying to prevent an assassination attempt. Helm, of course, works as a government agent and his approach to the work is both patriotic and apolitical. Or maybe he isn't even patriotic but just good at his job. There......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Not my favorite in the series, but still a good book. Helm is married to a woman so he can protect her from assassination. As usual, he's given the barest of information & expected to fulfill his objective. The plot hinges on a misunderstanding that is very well plotted. The idea behind the story is......more

Quotes

“One of the few credible secret agents in today’s fiction…Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist; your reading diet lacks essential vitamins if you overlook him.” New York Sunday Times

“This series by Donald Hamilton is the top-ranking American secret agent fare.” Book Week

“A real world with a real character.” Tom Clancy

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