The Pawns Count: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pawns Count, credited to E. Phillips Oppenheim, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Pawns Count by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Read by Tom Weiss "I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. "I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. "I am for Germany first and America afterwards," Oscar Fischer, the German-American pronounced. "I am for America first, America only, America always," Pamela Van Tale, the American girl, declared. They were all right except the German-American. It is during World War I. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a new powerful explosive, but he let's it slip in a London restaurant that he has made the discovery. Graham is ready to join some friends for luncheon at the restaurant but chooses to clean up before joining them. He never comes out of the restroom. Several spies from different governments set out to find him and the formula. What was particularly interesting to me about this espionage novel is that it was written in 1918, but it could just as easily have been from today. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pawns Count
• Author credits: E. Phillips Oppenheim
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:06:07

Catalogue topics

• libirvox
• adventure
• fiction
• mystery
• Espionage
• Spy Story
• World War I Fiction

Track guide

1. Chapters 01 & 02 — 28:32
2. Chapters 03 & 04 — 26:10
3. Chapters 05 & 06 — 23:52
4. Chapters 07 & 08 — 20:19
5. Chapters 09 & 10 — 18:46
6. Chapters 11 & 12 — 20:19
7. Chapters 13 & 14 — 26:46
8. Chapters 15 & 16 — 25:18
9. Chapters 17 & 18 — 19:50
10. Chapters 19 & 20 — 24:36
11. Chapters 21 & 22 — 23:52
12. Chapters 23 & 24 — 26:03
13. Chapters 25 & 26 — 19:13
14. Chapters 27 & 28 — 23:40
15. Chapters 29 & 30 — 25:57
16. Chapters 31 & 32 — 18:44
17. Chapters 33 & 34 — 26:11
18. Chapters 35, 36 & 37 — 28:10

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