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    Amberlough: Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier
    Amberlough: Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier
    Amberlough: Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier
    Audiobook11 hours

    Amberlough: Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier

    Written by Lara Elena Donnelly

    Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal

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    About this audiobook

    "[Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal] delivers a stellar performance, imbuing each character, even the minor ones, with a fully realized personality...Kowal's background in theater allows her to maximize the emotional impact of each pivotal event." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

    From author Lara Elena Donnelly, comes a debut spy thriller, Amberlough, where a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup

    Trust no one with anything – especially in Amberlough City.

    Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he’s good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. They suit each other: Aristide turns a blind eye to Cyril’s clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover’s moonlighting job as a smuggler under wraps.

    Cyril participates on a mission that leads to disastrous results, leaving smoke from various political fires smoldering throughout the city. Shielding Aristide from the expected fallout isn’t easy, though, for he refuses to let anything – not the crooked city police or the mounting rage from radical conservatives – dictate his life.

    Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, a top dancer at the Bumble Bee Cabaret and Aristide’s runner, who could be the key to Cyril’s plans—if she can be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means — and people — necessary. Including each other.

    Combining the espionage thrills of le Carré with the allure of an alternate vintage era, Amberlough will thoroughly seduce and enthrall you.

    "James Bond by way of Oscar Wilde." —Holly Black

    "Sparkling with slang, full of riotous characters, and dripping with intrigue, Amberlough is a dazzling romp through a tumultuous, ravishing world." —Robert Jackson Bennett, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and the Edgar Award

    "An astonishing first novel!" —World Fantasy Award-winning author Ellen Kushner

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781427291530
    Amberlough: Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier
    Author

    Lara Elena Donnelly

    Lara Elena Donnelly is the author of the Nebula-, Lambda-, and Locus-nominated trilogy the Amberlough Dossier. She has taught in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, as well as the Catapult classes in New York and the Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers. In the summer, she wears The Cobra & the Canary. In the winter, Nudiflorum. And some others in between, to keep things interesting. As of this writing, she lives on the grounds of the old Hamilton Estate, with a screenwriter and a small mask-and-mantle tabby pretentiously named after a bitter Italian aperitif. For more information, visit www.laradonnelly.com.

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    • 5/5
      Seriously one of my favorite series! I highly recommend it
    • 5/5
      Really good read, I'll be sure to check out the rest. Well narrated too.