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  • Written by: Robert Ludlum
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 28 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Parsifal Mosaic

Written by: Robert Ludlum
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's Summary

Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal.

Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic

“[Robert] Ludlum’s narrative imagination is a force of nature.”—The New York Times

“As fast-paced and absorbing as any he’s written.”—Newsday

“The suspense never lets up.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A crackling good yarn.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
©1983 Robert Ludlum (P)2012 Random House Audio
Espionage Genre Fiction
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What the critics say

"Mr. Ludlum's narrative imagination is a force of nature." (The New York Times)

"Massive melodrama... Ludlum does know how to put on a show." (Chicago Tribune)

"A crackling good yarn." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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J. Peterman reads an entire. book. to. you.

So, I did it. I listened to the whole thing.

I read the Parcifal Mosaic in High School and wanted to revisit it. It’s a pretty good story. Not amazing, put pretty good. The dialogue leaves something to be desired.

What grated on me more and more, though, was the narrator’s style. J. Peterman from Seinfeld comes to mind. The weirdly lengthened words, the singsong up and down of the voice, the over-dramatisation of. every. word, and not to mention the badly done accents. It made me cringe constantly. I gritted my teeth and kept with it because I was curious about how it would all work out. But it was painful.

Audible needs to find more narrators who understand the intimacy of this medium. Their voices are literally *inside* our ears a lot of the time. They don’t need to emote to the cheap seats, at the back of the theatre. A good dose of subtlety would go a long way.

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