Audio heaven: Bullet

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Itâ€™s not even a clue. Itâ€™s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But itâ€™s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time. Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape. But heâ€™s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on Earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for 50 years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the presidentâ€™s route and the assassination itself?
Unabridged.
Read by Buck Schirner.

When down-at-heel conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he is hoping his luck is on the turn. There were certain spectators from the last show hed rather forget Amongst the showgirls and tricksters of Berlins scandalous underground, William can abandon his heart, his head, and more importantly, his past. But secrets have a habit of catching up with him, and the line between the act and reality starts to blur. Bringing the seedy glamour of the burlesque scene magnificently to life, Louise Welshs deft contemporary tale is her richest and most macabre yet.
Unabridged.
Read by Ewan Stewart.