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The Killer

Tom Wood

Start date: April 16, 2015

Finish date: April 16, 2015

Why we're reading this: Anti-hero. A word which has lost meaning. Tom Wood brings the concept back to life in this book. Introduc…more
[close] Anti-hero. A word which has lost meaning. Tom Wood brings the concept back to life in this book. Introducing the morally ambiguous, competent and remorseless contract killer "Victor". A man who is both a Pawn and a Player in the games spymasters play with each other.

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Aug 19, 2014 Mike (the Paladin) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: action, thriller

This was to me a surprisingly good and addictive read. The author takes what might have been a sort of "been there done that" action adventure and turned it into a thoughtful interesting read with some pretty original twists...

And saying it has a couple of fairly original twists is a big deal in what is at heart a political techno type thriller. I was at least mildly surprised on one occasion which doesn't happen all that often any more.

We start out with the story of a professional killer (he ha ...more

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Jul 12, 2017 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: part-of-a-series, russian-setting, kindle-book, action-adventure-group-read, thriller-suspense, assassin, action-adventure, scary-sexy-cool-dangerous-hero, hero-i-loved, first-in-series

I read this for the Goodreads Action/Adventure Aficionados group read and boy did it fit the bill. If a reader is looking for an authentic antiheroic lead who could very well be the bad guy in another book, they will like Victor.

Victor is an assassin who has no identity. He goes from job to job, and commands high fees to do what he does. He didn't kill for pleasure or joy. He kills because he's very good at it. While Victor wouldn't kill someone for no reason, he has and will kill cops if they g ...more

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Nov 28, 2017 Timothy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: thrillers

I love browsing the shelves at my library looking for great series I might have missed. I recently stuck gold. If you like Orphan X and Evan Smoak by Gregg Hurwitz or Mark Greaney's Gray Man you will love Victor by Tom Wood. The title above is the UK version. In the USA, this first Victor thriller is known as The Killer.
This book is awesome. It is so well written and moves at such a breakneck pace that it is hard to believe this is a first novel. Victor is an assassin. A very good assassin. Vic ...more

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Feb 22, 2011 Richard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book very much until around page 240. 20 page car chases and knife fights don't do it for me. The book was very well written hence the four star rating, but I think this new author is much to good to have 40-50 pages of filler in the middle of a novel. As I said. Very well written, so give it a shot you could do far worse. ...more

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Mar 23, 2014 Dawn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Also called "The Killer" - i read a paperback - harder to read then a hard cover book and both harder than ebook on Kindle app.

Great book!! Love Victor character and the writing of Tom Wood. Will read the rest of the series. Also the titles of which have been changed since they were written. Victor is a loner and yet he was forced to work with a women who was his handler on a couple of projects when she discovered that her bosses were cleaning house and trying to kill her and Victor - so she rea ...more

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