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The Perfect Assassin (2008)

The Perfect Assassin (2008)

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3.83 of 5 Votes: 4
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1933515155 (ISBN13: 9781933515151)
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English
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oceanview publishing

About book The Perfect Assassin (2008)

Maybe contemporary conspiracy spy thrillers just aren't my thing. I even finished the last 20% hoping it would redeem itself enough to earn 2 stars, but alas... I found the writing banal, wordy at times, then blatantly obvious and lacking in subtlety when it came to laying on the tension and mystery. Character development was sorely lacking and I was not convinced David Slaton was the perfect assassin. When Larsen would play out a scene with people exchanging details, which is obviously building up to some big reveal, only to stop at the point of the reveal and insert, "And then he told him how he did it." Readers don't really need such an important detail flaunted in their face like that, do they? It happened throughout the book and it made me nuts. If you like a series of scenes being described to you, you may like this book, but I would much rather actually feel a connection to the characters and situation.

I will do a few review on Barnes and Noble tomorrow, as I promised to do when I finished the book since it was giving to me for free.Currently on sale for 99 cents, it was a great book. Ward Larsen knows his stuff, and the description of the Scotland Yard, the Mossad and the Arab groups seemed spot on. The main character is well-portrayed and the heroine is mostly believable.The happy ending is nice but maybe just too perfect, hence the 4 stars, not the five. However, if you are a thriller fan, you sure the hell could do a lot worse. I really loved the Scotland Yard chief character and I hope he shows up again in another novel. The author has said that he won't be doing another book about the main character, David Slayton. That does make sense to me as well.Go spend the money and get the ebook, or the paper copy. The ebook is the one for under a buck. Web site:oceanviewpub.com/

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This is an older book, I believe published in 2008, but the story rings true today. It's well written with a great plot and a really interesting lead character. The book has plenty of action and the relationship of the two main characters, while predictable, is still interesting, especially their initial meeting.My only warning is that the early part of the book is best read in large sections as the plot is a little complex and more difficult to follow if you only read one chapter at a time.The most similar book/characters I have read is the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. A follow-up to the book came out last year, and I am currently reading it.
—Duff Young

How does stuff like this get published? The Perfect Assassin is anything but: (view spoiler)[he tells just about everyone who he is and what he does, he falls in love and transgresses all personal boundaries he's trained not to cross, he's unable to control his sex drive, because, well, sex sells and so does having a love interest who has Munchhausen and who you've kidnapped and threatened to kill multiple times... (hide spoiler)]
—Ioana

Soon to be a Dr. a young woman is sailing her fathers boat back to the US from Europe. She runs into a patch of wreckage and sees a man clinging to a cooler and manages to get him on the boat. He is cold and wounded and she patches him up only to have him demand to take to the coast of England. When they reach the coast he disables the boat and rows ashore. The woman gets the boat into the nearest harbor and arranges to have it repaired and finds a hotel. She is surprised be a couple "investigators" who begin to question her, but she suspects that they are not what they seem and as things start to get dangerous, her former passenger appears and after taking care of the pair convinces her that her life is in danger and they leave the hotel. She now finds herself in the middle of an international conspiracy and of a manhunt for her passenger. A good read with plenty of action to keep the story moving along.
—Bob

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