I like listening to audio CD's in my car on the drive to work and this didn't let me down. Initial impressions are excellent, the CD's are stored in a gun metal tin inside a cardboard sleeve. Inside the tin the disks are held in individual cardboard sleeves. As a Bond fan I had a smile when I noticed there were seven disks, all labelled 001, 002 etc... The story is read by Jeremy Northam, defiantly a voice for Bond. His style of reading suits the story well and draws you in and holds you there. The story itself is said to be written "as Ian Fleming". I wonder who decided to give it that strap line. It's true the story picks up where Fleming's James Bond stories left off. So the time and place and characters all feel very familiar. What isn't familiar is the length of the novel and the amount of writing that really has nothing to do with the main story put "Sets the scene". That's not a style Fleming used in his brief and punchy Bond novels. Faulks carries this off well however and the story is really very good. There are times when the story seems to get lost, wanders along and then gets going again. This doesn't sit to well if you are expecting a strait Fleming copy but works if you treat Faulks's tale as a new look into the life of an old acquaintance. A great production of a good book. I thoroughly recommend this for all Bond or adventure fans.