The Double Eagle
Written by James Twining
Narrated by Trevor White
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About this audiobook
James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense.
Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief.
Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance.
Cassius. The criminal mastermind controlling the art underworld.
In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens memories of Depression–era politics and a seventy–year–old heist.
Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case.This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before.
Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect.
Tom, caught between his desire to finally get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.
James Twining
James Twining was born in London but spent much of his childhood in Paris. After graduating from Oxford University with a first class degree in French Literature, he worked in Investment Banking for four years before leaving to set up his own company which he then sold three years later, having been named as one of the eight "Best of Young British" Entrepreneurs in The New Statesman magazine. James lives in London with his wife and two daughters. Visit www.jamestwining.com
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A blockbuster-style international thriller, very much in the mode of James Bond films. You know the sort, lots of action in lots of exotic places with people jetting round the world at the drop of a hat, and very often in defiance of the laws of physics. Beautiful women, dastardly villains, solid heroes and lots of luxury item name-dropping. Characterisation always gives way to plot, which isn't to say the characters here are not fully rounded, just that they are stereotypes (as you would expect in a Bond or Bourne movie).Twining delivers on the plot twists and turns and provides some exciting, if by-the-book, action scenes. The after-the-credits finale sets us up for subsequent stories.I enjoyed it as a piece of fast-paced narrative that kept me entertained on a beach in the sun. And that is good enough for me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Story revolves around the Fort Knox robbery in which precious and very rare $20 golden coins have been stolen. Main character is Tom Kirk, professional thief and once-time secret agent specialized in getting-in-getting-out-silently operations. He is working with FBI agent whose career is in great jeopardy and is given last chance to “redeem” herself.Interesting story and characters but storytelling is somewhat …. I do not know. It may be due to the fact that I read the translated edition and something was … well, lost in translation. Author obviously knows a lot about art and did his research on art-world underground but descriptions are … e.g. one of the characters, Corbet, is described as a person whose face has same lines as art-décor locomotive from the advertising posters – I guess author wanted to say that Corbet is energetic person, but for me this looks somewhat clumsy.Story pace is very, very fast – you got the feeling you are watching some action movie – and that is good.If you like action-packed adventure novels, give it a try – I think you are going to like it.Recommended.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Easy reading but writing by numbers really in my opinion. Full of stereotyped characters and situations as Tom Kirk tries to track down a missing American Double-Eagle gold coin from 1933. I found it totally unbelievable that the lead female character would be allowed by her employers the FBI, to take an $8m value, rare gold coin to London.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wasn't sure would enjoy this, found after a wander round the library - but I did. Bit of a slow burner, Tom is an interesting character - retired industrial spy and art thief. The big bad was a bit too evil villain but if you carry on with the series as I have, he does even out into a much better written character. Nice mix of spy, thriller, adventure and puzzle solving.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Double Eagle was my first James Twining book but it won't be my last. I have already ordered his second book, The Black Sun. This book had major twists and turns and the ending was so surprising. Can't believe this was Twining's debut thriller. I have to say that this book is extraordinary!