Liss recycles familiar conventions—drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guys—but salvages his novel from banality with a few quirky touches. In sticky south Florida of August 1985, Lem Altick, a 17-year-old door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, witnesses the murder of two potential customers in a mobile home. Fearing he'll be fingered for the crime—or worse, that he's next—Lem establishes a wary relationship with the likable killer, Melford Kean, who is either a violent psychopath or an animal rights vigilante fighting agribusiness.
The novel centres around the protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, who committed suicide immediately after the Second World War. Iris, now an old woman, recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and middle age, as well as her unhappy marriage to Richard Griffen, a rival of her industrialist father.
American Assassin – Novel by Vince Flynnby Vince Flynn
Prior to becoming a CIA superagent, Rapp was attending Syracuse University along with his girl friend. When she is killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 the doors are open for his recruitment. This novel reveals Rapp’s early years and follows the formation of a new group of clandestine operatives headed by Irene Kennedy as they seek to stem the rise of Islamic terrorism before it reaches American shores. Read by George Guidall. Unabridged.
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Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is a novel based on the Assassin's Creed II computer game, however unlike in the game, the present day is not included, it is set only in the 15th century.
If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it? When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend, and offers Rain a choice: carry out a final assignment, or bear the responsibility for Dox's murder.
