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The Fallen Angels: Crowning Mercy, Book 2 (Unabridged)
By Bernard Cornwell
Narrated By Anna Bentinck

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Castlibrary UK is proud to present The Fallen Angels: Crowning Mercy, Book 2 (Unabridged). This audiobook is available for download for our UK based customers.

Here is a highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. The gilded family had been the envy and the pride of England for centuries. Never had the Lazenders seemed more powerful or more wealthy. And never had the unseen means of their destruction seemed so close! Yet the heir to the estate was absent. Toby Lazender worked for the British in Revolutionary France, where he hunted down the men who had murdered the innocent girl he loved. It was his sister, Campion, who oversaw the family's affairs at the "little kingdom" of Lazen Castle. But Lazen is, unknowingly, a house under siege. The Fallen Angels, among the most powerful and dangerous men in Europe, are plotting to bring revolution to England. To succeed, they need money, and the Lazender fortune can provide it. The key to the fortune is control of Campion's future. A web of deceit closes around Lazen, drawing Campion ever closer to a subtle trap that has been laid just for her. Her only hope for survival lies with the Gypsy, her brother's broodingly aloof horse-master, a man whose loyalties are at best uncertain. Fallen Angels is a powerful blend of passion, adventure, and intrigue, played out in the shadow of the guillotine and the sunlit splendour of an English estate. It is a worthy successor to A Crowning Mercy, the first chronicle of the Lazender family. Click here to see all the titles in our Bernard Cornwell collection. ©2006 Bernard Cornwell and Susannah Kells; (P)2006 BBC Audiobooks Ltd. Published: 13/02/2006, BBC WW Customers who bought this also bought… £21.19 £7.99 £13.29 £7.99 £14.19 £7.99 £20.33 £7.99 Customer Reviews 17 Visitors' Rating: I just could not stop listening to it, and couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. A jolly good story in the best of Bernard Cornwell's tradition. More please!! Patricia, Clacton on Sea,, United Kingdom 30/07/2006 8/8 registered users found this helpful | Register This is a follow-on from Bernard Cornwell & Susannah Kells' book 'A Crowning Mercy'. It's set a couple of hundred years later, during the French revolution. You don't need to have listened to the first book to enjoy this one, but it would help a little bit. If you have listend to the earlier book, this one starts off a bit confusing, because we meet a Toby & Campion Lazender, but they're different ones from the previous book, and having the same narrator (and hence the same voices for the characters) takes a bit of getting used to. That soon passes however, and Anna Bentinck takes us on an exciting, and sometimes horrific, adventure through England and France at this turbulent time. The book is 'tense' because nothing is ever as it seems, and you are given just enough clues to think you might know what's going on, but not enough to make you 100% certain (until about 30 minutes from the end, I was about 80% certain who the 'villain' was, but there were a few other possibilities who made almost as much sense). As with the previous book, this has some quite graphic violence in it (as would be expected at the time of Madame Guillotine), so not one to listen to with young children or the squeamish around... Paul, Meltham, United Kingdom 30/05/2008 7/7 registered users found this helpful | Register Brilliantly written (as usual), a bit more 'girly' than his other books - all of which I throughly enjoyed. Great plots and twists. Danielle, Harrogate, United Kingdom 03/12/2007 4/4 registered users found this helpful | Register Read more customer reviews After reading all the reviews, I expected a lot from this book and it didn’t disappoint me. With bags of mystery and intrigue, its got a beautiful heroine in peril, a bunch of evil baddies out to get her plus a beguiling blue-eyed gypsy! It’s well written and beautifully and unobtrusively narrated. What more could anyone want? Heather, Cambridge, United Kingdom 06/08/2008 2/2 registered users found this helpful | Register another superb book, if you've read a crowning mercy you will find this an excellent follow up Raymond, maidstone, United Kingdom 11/10/2008 1/1 registered users found this helpful | Register This book is astonishingly detailed, deeply interesting and quite captivating. The authors have a deep insight into the psychology of human beings and the needs of their audience. Loved every minute of it and as with all good books it is one that can be read or as in this case listened to a number of times. Happy listening. Peter, United Kingdom 13/10/2008 This is probably not a novel to turn to if you want an accurate account of the French Revolution, but is a good, pacey read. There are plenty of cliff hangers and a dramatic unmasking ceremony at the end. (although even though the villain was the one I suspected it didn't really ring true, but none of the story was intended to stand up to close analysis). The only disappointment was that Gitan was almost too perfect. Toby, in the first book was a more believable character for me Catriona, Lincoln, United Kingdom 14/06/2009

Audiobook Keywords: Action, Adventure, Historical Adventures

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