An interesting story, but ruined by the performance — one of the worst that I can remember hearing. The narrator tends to hurry through sentences then comes to an abrupt halt, giving the narration a choppy feel. The narrator has no knowledge of how to pronounce French and was given no direction. That’s a problem because a good part of the action takes place in France and there are references to France throughout the book. A string of badly mangled place names is a good way to destroy verisimilitude.