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The October Man
- A Rivers of London Novella
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A brand-new stand-alone novella in the Rivers of London series!
Tobias Winter has been assigned to the Abteilung KDA - the Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters.
Despite the intriguing department name, as Winter explains, dealing with the strange and the supernatural is 'actually 90 percent paperwork'. But this is a story about the other 10 percent of the job: the life-threatening danger part.
This is a tale about the Queen of the Harvest, the October Man, and the little-known time the vineyard around Trier started to eat people....
Winter may be P. C. Peter Grant's German counterpart, but surviving this investigation is entirely down to him....
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- Jacqueline E
- 02-01-2023
Hearing this makes so much difference!
I have read most of this story in English. I couldn’t believe how much difference hearing it read by someone who is a native German speaker made. The rhythm/cadence is so different and really opened up Tobias’ sense of humour and character.
Really enjoyed this story.
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- Jennifer
- 28-06-2019
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!
Ben Aaronovitch is once again brilliant at writing a totally entertaining experience. This production is as good as the Peter Grant series. Great choice of narrator to suit the story. If you like this genre, it's one of the great audiobooks to listen to as the presentation is wonderfully done. Highly recommend it if you want to lose yourself in a book, this is it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-04-2020
Great and want more
Really great novella. Hope we see more set in Germany. I found counter point to the normal stories, and I would love Ben to give us more from the German team.
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- Bishwa
- 01-07-2019
Pricey for such a short book
Disappointing short, but still at the full price. I won’t buy any more in the series if this is the direction they’re heading
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- Mama-Ace
- 14-09-2019
I loved this!
As a fan of the Peter Grant novels, it’s so wonderful to immerse in a completely new part of the magical realm Aaronovitch has so deftly created.
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- Roderic
- 06-11-2019
An enjoyable extension of the magical world
This was a diverting enough book though I found nothing remarkable in the plot line. I have a lot of reading time invested in the world Ben Aaronovitch has created but something (I am not sure what) is needed to sharpen up the plots in coming books.
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- #1 Customer
- 06-04-2023
Terrible production.
Great performance, but as an audio engineer, whoever produced this should be ashamed! Have they ever heard of a de-esser or multi-band eq?!? Utterly horrendous production, unlistenable through any small speaker.
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- An Avid Reader
- 02-07-2023
Another stellar ROL novella
Ben Aaronovich is a master of crime fighting duo’s! Tobias and Vanessa work so well together. If you’ve enjoyed other ROL books, definitely give this one a go!
It does make me wonder what would happen if Peter and Tobias ever met professionally - they could expand each other knowledge of magic so much!
Something to think about Ben <please>
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- Allan Cumming
- 27-06-2019
A change from Peter Grant
I was surprised that a Rivers of London book did not feature Peter Grant, and by a quarter of the way through, my surprise had turned to pleasure. The setting, characters and story were delightful. I look forward to more.
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- K. Young
- 02-09-2021
Enjoyable but nothing groundbreaking
The story is what you'd expect from a rivers of london novel set in Germany. I wouldn't recommend it at full price because it's only a novella but priced the same as a novel.
It does add a but more context from a German perspective but we already know most of it from other books. The author could have made added a bit more world building and differences between Germany/the main character and London/Peter Grant.
I can't say how well this reflects German culture, but the author is usually good at getting that kind of thing right. Talk of efficiency seemed a little on the nose, but is probably appropriate for a bureaucratic institution.
The performance has a decent accent - understandable in English while still sounding like he has a German accent (to someone who did high school German.) However, every time he uses an S it whistles and it doesn't sound good on my headphones. I got used to this and was still able to listen. I think it sounded better when I listened in the car, but I might have been used to it by then. I had to re-listen to the first chapter several times because I kept zoning out and found the voice difficult to take in at first.
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