The Deceived (Jonathan Quinn, #2) in Espionage Aficionados

Nov 17, 2017 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: spies, thriller, 2017

As is mentioned in quite few reviews this second installment of the Jonathan Quinn books is not as good as the first and opener of the series. So I will graciously admit to the majority that they are right for a change.

The whole crew are back again Quinn, Nate and Orlando. This time the story is personal [How I dislike that moniker ever since the Craig years in 007 land, I am expecting his sister in the next one] and a in a clean up job Quinn comes across the corpse of a man who saved his behind ...more

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Feb 11, 2011 Eric_W rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-and-thrillers

I read and enjoyed the first Quinn novel. Quinn is a cleaner, a person hired to remove bodies and clean up after assorted mishaps. In this 2nd in the series, Quinn has been hired to get rid of a body in a shipping container. He discovers that it’s an old friend Steven Markoff, a CIA operative who once saved his life. On the wall of the container, Markoff had scratched a series of numbers and two letters: LP.

As a way of honoring his old friend, Quinn decides to contact Jenny, Markoff’s girlfrien ...more

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Aug 16, 2008 Jeffrey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: espionage, read-in-2008

Another super book from Brett Battles in his series about the Cleaner -- Jonathan Quinn, who was introduced in the first volume in this series called The Cleaner. In this novel, Quinn, who cleans up dead bodies and other messes for various intelligence agencies or other parties that can pay his fee, is sen to clean up a shipping container which has a dead body in it. It turns out the dead body is a friend of Quinn, who feels that he should find out what happened to him. When Quinn investigates h ...more

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