Courting Danger

My Adventures in World Class Tennis, Golden Age Hollywood and High-Stakes Spying

By: Dale Leatherman, Alice Marble

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This is a revised edition of Courting Danger by Dale Leatherman, who co-authored the original with Alice Marble in 1990. It corrects minor errors that have come to light during the past three decades. Alice Marble was a rebel in her time--outspoken, bold and beautiful, a tennis champion whose powerful game and glamorous exploits captivated the public and press in the 1930s. Her public life was filled with success. Championships at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open made her the top-ranked player in the U.S. from 1936 to 1940. And Hollywood friendships with Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, William Randolph Hearst and William duPont made her one of the most famous athletes in the world. But her private life was even more remarkable, marked by triumph, despair and suspense. Filled with colorful anecdotes about Hollywood's greatest stars, the book also reveals the personal and long-secret tragedies that haunted Alice's brilliant career--and her ultimate act of bravery and patriotism. Recruited by U.S. Army Intelligence to reconnect with an old lover and uncover his relationship with the Nazis, she put her life on the line--and almost lost it. Maven Pictures is developing the feature film of Courting Danger, to star Olivia Cooke.

Extremely fun edge of your seat book

I had no idea what I was getting into with this book and took it quite casually but it got better and better and better. Full of Hollywood golden age. Thriller moments. It’s a real winner.

Great story; horrible robot narration

I have never known any author who would dare to ruin their work with an automated narration, but here we are. This was a great story, but the automated narration was awful. Not only did it mispronounce words and names, it read everything from great surprise to elated victory to horrid hopelessness in the same bland monotone.

There is a reason you hire actors and pro narrators to bring your story to life rather than the dead mouse that this narration just dropped on my doorstep.