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    The Secret Chamber
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Secret Chamber

    Written by Patrick Woodhead

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Conspiracies, secrets and high-octane adventure in the Congo. Another gripping thriller from the author of The Forbidden Temple.

    When a brilliant young English doctor vanishes in the impenetrable forests of northern Congo, Intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson Luca Matthews in the Himalayas, asking him to go to Africa and find Joshua. Reluctantly Luca obeys, but he is no longer the man he once was. Meanwhile in Africa, brilliant flying pilot Beatrice (Bear) Makuru, also wants to brave the northern wilderness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781407497549
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    • 2/5
      This story is 'OK'. There is nothing amazing, the story pace kept me interested, and details were all-right. Nothing amazing or gripping.
    • 3/5
      The inappropriately named Secret Chamber continues the misadventures of climber extraordinaire Lucca Matthews, hero of Woodhead’s promising debut novel The Cloud Maker. Traumatised and unbalanced by the death of a friend, Lucca has lost his climbing nerve and works as a porter in the Himalayas until forced back into reality by a distress call from his godfather, sending him off to ‘the black heart of Africa’ in search of a childhood companion. In the dangerous depths of the Congo’s Ituri Forest he meets his love interest, ‘Bear’ Makuru, the ripe and shapely half-French mining expert and pilot who is investigating explosions in Coltan mines. In the best tradition of old fashioned adventure tales, cliché follows cliché as our couple encounters ‘half-witted Boers’ and evil Chinamen, youthful psychopaths from the Lord’s Resistance Army and despotic monomaniacs, with plenty of pimps, mercenaries, secret mines, mysterious minerals and Rooivalk helicopters for good measure. The book is not well-written and many of the details are laughably incorrect – acacia trees in a rainforest? Bloemfontein a mining outpost in the Kalahari? – yet despite sloppy editing, sexism and racism, the story is utterly gripping and ends all to quickly. The Secret Chamber is a book I hated to love, but have to recommend to all lovers of fast-paced and thought-provoking action.