Patrick Wood Audiobooks

The Final Betrayal: a brisk, pointed listen on money, technology and trust

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

69 listener ratings

Who is Patrick Wood?

Short books have their own kind of nerve. Under four hours, no room to wander, every chapter obliged to earn its place. The Final Betrayal, the title we hold under Patrick Wood’s name, is built on that economy, and it lands on the business, money and technology shelves rather than the fiction ones, which sets the expectation clearly enough: this is argument rather than escape.

What comes through the writing is impatience with comfortable assumptions. The subject matter sits where finance and technology meet the way ordinary people live, and the tone is that of someone convinced the listener needs telling rather than soothing. It is a compact case, made at pace, aimed at people who prefer their non-fiction with a pulse.

Patrick Wood in audiobooks

At three and a half hours or so, The Final Betrayal is comfortably a single afternoon, or a return commute with a little left over. Katherine Quinton reads it, and the choice pays off: a clear, level delivery that lets the argument carry itself instead of being underlined at every turn.

Listener ratings sit in the high fours across a respectable body of scores, which for something this brief usually means people finished it and meant to. Start at the beginning and simply keep going; there is no other sensible route through a piece this tightly wound. The full listing is below.