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Early One Morning [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Rob Ryan (Author), Steven Pacey (Reader)
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Chivers Audio Books; Unabridged edition (30 Jul 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075408373X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0754083733
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.9 x 6.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Daily Telegraph
'Excellent...I cannot recommend it too highly...Comparisons may be drawn between EARLY ONE MORNING and CHARLOTTE GRAY. Ryan’s story is much the stronger' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'The combination of fast cars, sex and romance, spies, nasty Nazis and plucky heroes is damn near irresistible, and Ryan's grasp on the plot is hard to fault' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tense and moving World War Two spy drama, 21 Nov 2002
By Neil Davie (Pontcharra, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early One Morning (Paperback)
Like "Charlotte Gray" (to which it has been compared), the main part of Robert Ryan's splendid novel - loosely based on a true story - plunges us into the world of the British-run "Special Operations Executive" of spies, parachuted into occupied France during World War Two. However, we first meet the story's two heroes - in every sense of the word - Englishman William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist, on the pre-war European motor racing circuit. First rivals, both on the racetrack and for the affections of the beautiful Eve, the two men become close friends. When war breaks out, Williams (now married to Eve) returns to England and is recruited into the SOE by the mysterious "Rose". Benoist soons joins him and the two men launch a series of daring attacks on the German forces occupying France. These attacks, and the occupier's - sometimes successful - efforts to thwart them, make for tense, heart-in-the-mouth reading. Ryan handles excellently not only the action scenes but also evokes convincingly both the pre-war hedonism of the international motor-racing fraternity, and the drab, morally-ambiguous atmosphere of occupied Paris (the latter includes a grimly effective description of the deportation of Parisian Jews). What really drives the story, however, and leaves it in the memory afterwards, is the author's subtle depiction of the book's main characters, Williams, Benoist and Eve. It would be a shame to give away the story's dénouement, but the tension continues to the very last page, and the ending is very moving - especially when one remembers that many of the events described in the book actually took place some sixty years ago.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Resistance fighters, grand prix glamour and great romance, 4 Mar 2002
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This review is from: Early One Morning (Hardcover)
I wouldn't normally read a book about the war but I'd just seen Charlotte Gray so thought I'd give this one a go and it was fantastic. In fact, much better than Charlotte Gray because this is all based on real people and events. I had no idea that Grand Prix drivers had been recruited for Resistance work before I started reading and, fortunately for Ryan, they were all incredibly glamorous and colourful characters so the book's full of the most wonderful stories about their exploits. Ryan's obviously done loads of research and there are fascinating insights into all sorts of areas of war-time life (like how French prostitutes were recruited to give German soldiers sexual diseases). But the most unusual thing is I loved it (the romance between Williams and Eve is really powerful) and my husband loved it too (all the stuff about cars). It's rare we both can really enjoy the same book. You could buy this book for anyone.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An unusual and entertaining mix of fact and fiction, 21 Aug 2002
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This review is from: Early One Morning (Hardcover)
Early One Morning is an immensely engaging blend of fact based adventure, all the more gripping for the unlikely background of the racing driver protagonists, interwoven with an unsentimental but moving love story. The early chapters set in pre-war Paris capture in superb detail the decadence which was to end all too soon. This contrasts starkly, for instance, with the harrowing scenes of Jewish prisoners en route to the camps. The twists and turns as Williams and his close friend Benoist keep ahead of the Gestapo are in the best traditions of war time escapades (though some of the later war scenes including Williams own incarceration in a concentration camp do not carry quite the same punch).
All this is carefully wrapped in a series of flashbacks from the present day as the truth (?) about Williams is finally uncovered.
Early One Morning is a terrific read with wide appeal; its basis in fact only adds to this appeal.
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