No Longer a Gentleman

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author, Mary Jo Putney has won two RITAs and two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards.

In No Longer a Gentleman, the gentleman in question, Grey Sommers, is conducting a bit of light espionage in France when a dalliance with a government official’s wife gets him thrown into a dungeon. Enter beguiling spy Cassie Fox, sent to free the suffering lord - and perhaps to liberate his heart.

©2012 Mary Jo Putney, Inc. (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC

A Lost Lord Found

Part of the Lost Lords series, this is a well-written (and well-read) story by Mary Jo Putney. As usual, the characters are the best part. The female protagonist Cassie had a moderately sizable role in the last book of this series, definitely a supporting character there but very much a strong and viable heroine here. At the same time, Cassie isn't Buffy the Vampire Slayer or one of the 21st century kickass heroines; she is smart, resourceful, and dedicated to her craft without having to defeat hordes of enemies in hand-to-hand combat (not that she's a slouch). Wyndham, in a nod towards Monte Cristo, comes out of his desperate situation a changed man: Powerful in his own right, but definitely damaged (just as in her own way Cassie is, just in a healed-over-scars sort of way). They suit one another very well, as the people of that time-period would say.

The reading was well-done, just as all the other books in this series have been. Sometimes I wonder if it is better to have the same narrator through a series, but the Lost Lords readers, all different so far, have all been very good (thus demonstrating that it isn't always better to have all of them from the same reader).

Good book bad narrator

I enjoy Ms. Putney's books. The stories are well written and never overdone. In this case there are two very strong characters whose lives are woven together by a finely constructed story.

The story was spoiled for me by horrid narration. I'm not sexist when it comes to narrators but when a male narrator does such a bad job with female voices it takes a lot of patience for me to listen.

Not that great....

The story line had the potential there but it just didn't deliver. 17th century female spy Cassie Fox is sent into France to rescue a imprisoned English lord and return him to his family. The plot is interesting but it just fizzles out, there is no emotion, or struggles, it seem just to be a reciting of actions and that's it. No depth or development into the characters, and if you don't care about the characters then why would you care about the story. I would pass on this one.

Lost Lords Are Found

This is a great series and that’s rare. Every one of these books are solid entertainment. I love the Regency era and I love MJs books so these are a win win for me. I’m not sure how many times I’ve read this book but it always keeps me enthralled and that’s my standard of a great story.

Finally not a virginal conquest

So lovely to read a well fleshed out regency love story without a blushing virgin. It dealt well with the concept of an independent flawed woman. Lovely read.