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Skinner's Ordeal: Complete & Unabridged
  
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Skinner's Ordeal: Complete & Unabridged [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Quintin Jardine (Author), Robbie MacNab (Narrator)
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  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Story Sound (15 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859034616
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859034613
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,513,308 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A mid-air explosion; a plane plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies, the British and American Defence Secretaries among the victims. Out of the blue, Edinburgh's Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself leading the biggest investigation of his career. The means of destruction is apparent from the start, but the investigation quickly grows more puzzling - for once they have an embarrassment of suspects with motive and opportunity. Then sudden random violence wrenches Skinner himself out of the picture. While his colleagues struggle with the mass of clues, he lies on the brink of death, trapped with the horrors from his own hidden past. As Skinner's ordeal reaches its crescendo, the police pursue their suspects one by one, until at last they are brought to a dramatic, thrilling, but tragic conclusion. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author
Quintin Jardine was a journalist before joining the Government Information Service where he spent nine years as an advisor to ministers and civil servants. In 1986 he became an independent public relations consultant. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A really gripping thriller, with many twists and turns., 15 Jan 2001
By scarpetta1@aol.com (Ferndown, Dorset, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Skinner's Ordeal (Bob Skinner Mysteries) (Paperback)
The book grips you from the very first page, with a heart wrenching decription of a plane crash. The story develops with emotion and feeling, and leads the reader through a detailed and intricate plot. The characters are well defined and very quickly the reader feels as though Skinner is someone you have known for a long time. An excellent read, and one of the best thrillers in ages.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and clunky prose., 16 Feb 2001
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This review is from: Skinner's Ordeal (Bob Skinner Mysteries) (Paperback)
When a plane explodes over Scotland, killing over 200 people, Edinburgh's ACC wants to know who is responsible. Personally, after the first twenty pages, I couldn't really care less. The book is written in the kind of wooden prose that went out of date with Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Skinner comes across as being one of the least interesting characters of crime fiction in recent years; a supposedly tough guy (though little evidence of this supposed toughness is shown) whose heart is melted by the plight of a little boy, the only survivor of the tragedy (Altogether now, awwwww!). Nor does the sub-Forsyth subplot concerning an arab double agent add anything to the novel. Edinburgh's toughest copy? Come one, DI Rebus could have him for breakfast any time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars No Ordeal to read this one., 4 Jan 2008
By ~ "Horseunderwaterbooks" (Cambridgeshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Skinner's Ordeal (Hardcover)
Bob Skinner is in his 5th adventure. The book gripped me and kept me guessing almost until the very last page. Quite a twist at the end.
Basically Skinner is on his way to give a dressing down to another station in his charge that has underperformed when he hears a radio broadcast in his car over the radio - a plane with 205 soles has come down
over the lammuirhead mountains. A barren farming area in Scotland. He calls his base and tells them he is turning round and going straight to the site. However, the sight when he gets there affects him in more ways than one as he finds his wife there, sealing up the bodies in bags as she is the ME and one of the best in the area. Bob tries to tell her to go home, but she tells him where to go. Then he notices that a vital part of the plane seems to be missing, the nose cone, so goes off to try and locate it and that is when he hears somebody crying. He finds a little boy stuck in the wreckage and goes all out to rescue him. The only survivor and potential witness to the whole horror. In fact the little boy knows a lot more than everybody thinks, he holds the key to the whole business...
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