I listened to this on CD. The CD was recorded in 1990 and sometimes sounded as though the reader had walked into a tunnel, kind of muffled. Also, I didn't care for the reader, Graeme Malcolm. Sometimes he would stop reading... and you'd think it was the end... of the paragraph... or starting a new section... and then he would come back... and you'd still be in the same scene. He also read slowly and didn't give a lot toward characterization in voices or accents.

The book, though, I enjoyed. I had seen the movie previously and always liked that. The book went into more detail, of course, and had well-developed characters and interesting interactions. This is the first Ken Follett I have read, and I do like his writing style.


Product Description

One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin—code name: "The Needle"—who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.

Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heart—Eye of the Needle