There is only one way to keep a witness from testifying....
It was supposed to be an easy job: baby-sit a pampered playboy hiding from the a... read full description
It was supposed to be an easy job: baby-sit a pampered playboy hiding from the a... read full description
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Oct 21, 2009
Kevin
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Rucka herds a large gallery of complex characters through fun action and emotional character development. You get to see the cutting edge tech of the 90s (and realize how far we've come) and plenty of interesting characters. He seems to have dropped the shallow quirks some characters had in earlier novels which is also nice. Also Rucka has a lot of very interesting women in his books that are just as deep and strong and sexual as the men. It's easy to admire his main character's moral stance on
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Jul 07, 2010
Ensiform
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The third Atticus Kodiak novel, in which the bodyguard is hired to protect the star witness in an anti-tobacco lawsuit. See, Big Tobacco has hired one of the Ten, as in the ten best assassins in the world, to off the former executive before he can make his damaging deposition against the company. It's a pretty thrilling 300 pages, filled with Rucka's usual attention to detail and authentically dangerous action (characters die, Atticus gets wounded, things go wrong). Still, although Rucka's fe
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Aug 10, 2011
Joey
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If you divide the Kodiak series into "Eras" (which I do), Smoker is the best of the first era (Keeper, Finder, Smoker). Professional body guard vs. Professional assassin. Nuff said.
Aug 11, 2010
Drew
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Great character development. Very similar to his previous books in this series, except this time Atticus has a very skilled foe- one of the top assassins in the world.
Jun 23, 2009
Injuneer
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Oct 28, 2009
Danny
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Kodiak #3. Smoker as it turns out introduces a very key character in the Kodiak universe although you wouldn't know it at the time. In this book Atticus ends up protecting a big tobacco whistle blower named Pugh from one of the primier assasins in the world known only as John Doe.
Nov 19, 2007
Mike
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Wait, didn't i say that about another Rucka book? Yeah, bit of a fan. His heroes are noble and flawed, his villains smart and motivated, and the action arely goes where the reader thinks it will. Definitely a smart roller coaster of a book and an author worth paying attention to.
Jul 15, 2010
Dana
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Even though it appears I dropped in on them mid-series, I liked the characters. The plot strains credulity --I can't imagine that after the first assassination that the police wouldn't step in in a big way. Good writing and a strong voice, though, I'd read the rest of them.
May 26, 2008
Matt
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Rucka is awesome. I'm really enjoying these early Kodiak books, even though they don't have nearly the punch of his later work (Queen & Country is aces!)
May 30, 2011
David
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The action didn't stop from beginning to end. Very suspenseful.
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