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    The Killer
    The Killer
    The Killer
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Killer

    Written by Tom Wood

    Narrated by Rob Shapiro

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    Forget James Bond.
    Forget Jason Bourne.
    Forget Jack Bauer.

    Meet Victor.

    He's an assassin-a man with no past and no surname. He lives alone. He operates alone. He's given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid. He's THE KILLER.

    Victor arrives in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. He completes it with trademark efficiency-only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life. Pursued by determined enemies, a woman too beautiful to be safe, and intelligence agencies from both sides of the Atlantic, Victor will soon discover there is nowhere left for him to hide . . . and no one he can trust. But he is every bit as ruthless as those hunting him. And Victor will find out who wants him dead and why-one corpse at a time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 19, 2013
    ISBN9781452685663
    Author

    Tom Wood

    Tom Wood is the President of Church Multiplication Ministries and serves as Director of the North Georgia Church Planting Network, the Nashville Church Planting Network, and leads Church Planter Assessments for the PCA and Grace Network of Canada. He has planted two churches, served as Director of Church Planting for Perimeter Ministries in Atlanta and as Southeast Regional Church Planting Coordinator for the PCA. Tom has D.Min. and M.Div degrees and has been married to Rachel for 33 years. He coaches and consults with pastors and churches throughout the US, Canada and London, UK.

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    • 4/5
      Very exciting story.I was beginning to think, Victor, the assasin, was a complete robot without any emotions, but as the book progressed, he was beginning to question why he did what he did..Interesting characters, lots of rotten apples in CIA and KGB and plenty of action and shooting.
    • 4/5
      Not bad! Working on reading/listening to basically every espionage thriller series and this was next on my list. I will definitely be headed to book 2!

      Side note: the recording is super sketchy. There’s even audio like “End of CD 2” which makes me think Scribd just ripped it from a hard copy!
    • 2/5
      When you advertise your new book with "Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Reacher." you damn well better deliver. Tom Wood's "The Killer" didn't.I should have quit this book 100 or so pages in, but I held out hope. The core of the idea was good enough, it just wasn't executed very well.We meet Victor, an assassin, who's been hired to kill someone trying to sell Russian secrets. Once the job's done, Victor ends up the target. After escaping several attacks, he joins up with the woman who hired him as they're now both targets for elimination. They want to find out who's set them up and take them out. Hundreds of pages later, we finally get to the end which is rather unsatisfying. The Russian secrets turn out to be high-tech missiles that have been sitting at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Africa. Supposedly they may still be usable (which seems highly unlikely.) Russians are after them to keep others from gaining information on the technology. The CIA's after the missiles to keep them from enemy hands. Rouge CIA operatives are after them to sell them. And Victor is after everyone who's trying to kill him. It's a rather convoluted mess that never gets better as it goes.
    • 4/5
      An entertaining read. If you like Jack Reacher or the Jason Bourne series, then this book might be up your alley. Looking forward to the next one.
    • 3/5
      I chose this book for the silliest of reasons, involving fictional assassins, so I have no one to blame but myself. The first few chapters, introducing Victor the professional killer in a high octane firefight through Paris, are suitably gripping with promising characterization. Obviously, the reader never gets to learn too much about the protagonist, but there is a glimmer of personality. Victor's uneasy alliance with a female CIA agent was also intriguing. The whole conflict between the CIA and the Russians, plus the chase through Europe to discover the whereabouts of hi-tech missiles, however, was far too James Bond for my taste. Will America ever let go of the Cold War? And the final showdown between Victor and another killer was lost in translation, reading more like instructions to the hokey cokey, with hands, arms and legs interconnecting, than the tense dance of death the author was presumably going for. Not a bad novel, but not my style.
    • 3/5
      Victor is the consummate assassin who has been hired to kill someone and retrieve a thumbnail drive. After the job, he realizes that he has also been targeted by a group of assassins and now he's on the run trying to discover who sanctioned him and why.

      The CIA is also interested because the man Victor killed was supposed to turn the drive over to them. It contained the coordinates of a Russian ship that had foundered at sea and sank with some highly advanced cruise missiles. The CIA would love to locate the ship and recover the missiles. Well, it turns out everyone wants the missiles: the Russians, the CIA, a rogue group within the CIA, etc. etc. And, of course, everyone is after Victor including another assassin.

      Frantic action, predictable but a much better than average assassin-novel (that seems to have become its own genre) that I could easily imagine on the screen, staring Tom Cruise. Oh, wait, they did that one didn't they?
    • 3/5
      The writing is... we'll call it 'unsophisticated'... that's the nicest word I can find to describe it. There are a lot of unnecessary and rather immature "one-liner-scenes" throughout. i.e. there is one short section where we have the point of view of a customs agent where she tries to flirt with an assassin. He ignores her. She concludes he must be gay. And... that's it. That's the whole point of this entire section... fortunately it wasn't a long section, but it was so out-of-place that it was just weird.I love books that feature assassins/vigilantes so I should love this book. Unfortunately - although it is chock-full of assassins (pretty much every character in the novel is either a hired-killer or is trying to stop one) - it wasn't very suspenseful or engaging. I did finish it, but only because of the subject matter, not because the writing encouraged me to want to continue reading. It's very immaturely written - so either it's a new author, or he's quite young...I wish I liked it more. I want to read the next in the series because books on this subject matter seem few and far between... I just don't think the author writes maturely enough that I can bear to read any more by him.
    • 5/5
      Couldn't put it down. Was definitely on the side of the assassin.