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Exit Strategy by Steve Hamilton
Nick Mason Series Book #2
4.5★'s
From The Book:
Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. But first he has to find them—they’re ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified “deep black” locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them—and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man.
As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself.
My Views:
I had read Steve Hamilton's Alex McKnight series for years and was sorry to see that several years had past without more about Alex....so when I saw that Hamilton had produced another series about a reluctant assassin, Nick Mason, I was both excited and reluctant. How could an assassin be anything but an assassin by choice? The first book in the series... The Second Life of Nick Mason answered that question in spades.
Exit Strategy...the second book in the series finds Nick trying to balance his "new life" and stay alive at the same time. He wants to see his daughter but being anywhere near her presents danger. He wants to see justice done but all his attempts are met with violence at every turn. Can Nick survive and will he ever find freedom? As readers look for those answers we are thrown a monumental twist that will keep us eagerly awaiting the third book. Don't keep us waiting Steve. Start writing.
