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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451209313
ISBN number: 0451209311
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 528
Printing Date: September 02, 2003
Publishing house: Signet
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 5201
Studio: Signet
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When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before-on a woman he once loved.
Now, it's personal for Osbourne. Consumed by his dark obsession with the assassin, he's willing to risk his family, his career, and his life-to settle a score...
Amazon.com:
Bestselling novelist Daniel Silva (author of The Unlikely Spy) draws upon his experience as a foreign correspondent and a Washington journalist in The Mark of the Assassin. Set in London, Cairo, Amsterdam, and Washington, the story line follows CIA case agent Michael Osbourne as he attempts to locate the terrorists who shot down an airliner off the coast of Long Island. Osbourne has two main antagonists: Delaroche, a KGB-trained expert assassin ordered to kill the handful of people who know the truth, including Osbourne, and the corrupt political culture of Washington, which ominously stymies him at every turn. There's a love story at the core of this book, as well as a brave endeavor by Osbourne to reconcile a mystery in his past with a present he has not fully accepted. The prose is slick, and readers will find themselves racing through these pages as the body count grows and the conclusion nears. The Mark of the Assassin is a worthy effort from a rising star.
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I didn't get far with this story. When a bunch of unlikely conspirators from democracies and tyrannies meet in a luxury villa on a mountain top, indulge themselves inordinately, agree to kill a great many innocent men, women and children for their own profit, then leave and let the villa burn to the ground, I gave up and threw the book away. This author can write a good spy story, and has written several that are both gripping and sufficiently plausible, but this isn't one of them.
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If I had read this book when it was published I'm sure I would have had a much different response to it. If, for instance, I could still regard the CIA as a credible agency and not a useless, terrible joke I might have found the premise of a dynamic, competent CIA agent believable. Since the average CIA agent has been proven to be an inept bureaucrat the entire concept of the book is laughable. Add the typical liberal viewpoint of anything conservative and you just have a pale, lifeless version of LaCarre. Too bad since based on "Unlikely Spy" I thought I was going to like Silva's books.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will now be on the look out for more Silva novels.
Weak review to be sure but it is late, and I had a long day yet wanted to be sure to recommmend this one.
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Maybe its because I read this after reading 7 Gabriel Allon books back to back, but this earlier work of Silva's can't hold a candle to the newer series. Michael Osbourne is an adequate protaganist, but he pales in comparison to Gabriel. His wife is whiny, the intrigue only fair, and the descriptions and metaphors still on the brink of what they will become in "The Kill Artist" and those that follow.
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I give this book mixed reviews. It began slowly, building the pace and setting the stage. But I found the wife's whining truly annoying. Her reaction when she found out that her boyfriend-turned-husband is actually a spy was laughable. Makes me think Silva doesn't really know women very well.
The middle is when the book starts to kick into gear. I loved everything about the middle, especially after we meet October. I loved all the character developments, meeting each member of the Society and discovering their machinations.
The ending was also pretty awesome, the action really brisk. I enjoyed the mano-a-mano fight between October and Michael.
But I have some MAJOR nitpicks which I'm going to go into some SPOILER-FILLED detail:
1. I absolutely DETESTED it that none of the bad guys got their proper comeuppance. Not a one! Even Vandenberg's death left me severely disatisfied. At least I would have liked to have seen Tyler exposed and stripped of her power.
2. I hated Max's death. HATED IT. It was just over-the-top. Why did the good guys suffer so much casualties and the bad guys only ONE???
3. I hated Elizabeth's initial reaction to finding out about the source of the leak in her law firm. Please, lady! Do the right thing! She had to be guilted into helping out the Washington Post?
4. I hate Elizabeth's character. How many times was she all, "Michael, I need you NOW! Or, Michael, come home NOW!" Whiny little beeyatch. I wanted her dead.
Is the sequel any better? Does it address item #1 at least? I read the blurb and it doesn't seem to. ::sigh::
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