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    The Mark of the Assassin
    The Mark of the Assassin
    The Mark of the Assassin
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Mark of the Assassin

    Written by Daniel Silva

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 20, 2009
    ISBN9781423368571
    The Mark of the Assassin
    Author

    Daniel Silva

    Daniel Silva is the award-winning, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including The Unlikely Spy, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, The Messenger, Moscow Rules, The Rembrandt Affair, The English Girl and The Black Widow. His books are published in more than thirty countries and are best sellers around the world. He lives in Florida with his wife, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas.

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    • 4/5
      A fast paced mystery which starts out a bit slow (but well paced) and keeps your reading with twists and a surprise I didn't see midway through.To be fair though, the setup alone is half the book.The story starts with an act of terrorism. A jet liner is shot out of the sky using an land-to-air shoulder missile, the shooter is a terrorist known to the authorities who is found dead next to the empty missile tube shot in the face three times.Three shots to the face are the mark of the assassin and CIA agent Michael Osbourne knows it - he has encountered it before while working in the field.Michael believes that the jet liner was not shot down by Arab terrorists but by someone else and this makes him a target.What Michael doesn't know is that a group of rich and powerful world policy manipulators have targeted him for assassination and sent the world's best assassin to do the job; an assassin who justifies his work and morality by the famous Wild West well reasoned defense of "he needed killin'".Mix those elements with political intrigue, a wife, medical issues, international locations, twists, turns and a few surprises - and you got yourself a winning combination.The book has well developed characters, great plotline and it kept me interested until the last, as well as a theory which is thought provoking, if nothing else. "The Mark of the Assassin" was a good, quick read with several references to Silva's first novel "The Unlikely Spy" which I found entertaining - even though this is a separate story and has almost nothing to do with the first novel.At the time of this review, the under the book's title it said "Gabriel Allon" in parenthesis - this is not a Gabriel Allon book.
    • 5/5
      Stunning! Could not let this one go. Loved the characters and the depth of detail. Also loved the narrator - superb job! Will definitely check out the other titles from Mr. Silva.
    • 1/5
      The playback skipped entire sections making it impossible to follow the story. What i could follow was weakly done. The author could have improved the book with a little research
    • 4/5
      First-time reading silva....good start...good story and characters and kept me turning the pages...looking forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      My first Daniel Silva novel - looks like I'm in for a treat as I track more down. Intriguing plot. Makes you wonder what dirty deals are really being done at the highest levels of power in politics and the corporate world and how many innocent people suffer because of them.My one beef was that Elizabeth had the most trouble free IVF procedure and result I've ever read about, certainly given the circumstances surrounding it ie. husband not present for the implantation but tangling with terrorists overseas and is being hunted down by an assassin, (so is she), has discovered close friend murdered, kills assassin's assistant at close quarters and witnesses husband's shooting. A good page turner with lots of twists and turns.
    • 4/5
      Seemed like a long book; but, wasn't very much actually. Book involved Washington DC political actions, money, power and ego--it seemed like every time I turned it on, somebody was getting whacked. The book postulated an international secret society that viewed itself as the global ruler and their political goals involved murder and mayhem. Hmmmm...
    • 3/5
      I hate to denigrate any work of Daniel Silva. However, this work is not on par with his other literary successes. Especially the Gabriel Allon series. However, the plot is quite good. An American flight is downed by a stinger missile and hell breaks out in the Middle East. The conspirators start to erase their tracks to the crime, and need the help of a soulless assassin. I remain glad I read it.
    • 3/5
      Wanted to like it as it had all the elements I enjoy-spy’s, international countries, double crosses but the characters? Help! . Elizabeth? She doesn’t have one lovable quality. Shallow as a kiddie pool. Her reaction to finding out what Michael’s profession was made me laugh out loud then groan with incredulity. The narrator was ok until he came to attempting women’s voices and every time they come across bitchy, condescending, and impatient. His patrician accents? Finger nail on chalk board inducing.
    • 3/5
      Started off kind of slow but picked up. From the middle to the end of the book I could not put it down. A very good read.