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    Exit Strategy
    Exit Strategy
    Exit Strategy
    Audiobook15 hours

    Exit Strategy

    Written by Kelley Armstrong

    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda and Richard Ferrone

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series comes an exciting new heroine whose most secret identity is both lucrativeand lethal. Regulars at Nadia' s nature lodge don' t ask what she does in the off-season. And that' s a good thing. If she told them, she' d have to kill them. She' s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn' t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn' t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur-- and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort. To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 13, 2013
    ISBN9781470367077
    Exit Strategy
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    Kelley Armstrong

    When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night. Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.

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    • 3/5
      Interesting premise, and makes a change from this author's earlier books about werewolves and witches. Hard to recommend wholeheartedly as it goes on a bit. The heroine is likeable, though you want to hit her over the head when she's being so obtuse about her mentor. The main issue is one of likelihood - it often feels a mite implausible.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Completely different to her Otherworld series, this is the story about an ex-cop now making a living as a part time assassin, who gets hooked into a job that turns out to be a much bigger deal than originally anticipated.More of a mystery/thriller than SF, but as usual, great characters, good pacing, great plot and twists, and well setup for a sequel.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Love it :) This series is so much more easier to love than her paranormal series. Not that I dont love them its just got new charas & great ones at that.
      My fave mix of genres.

      Im frustrated with the romance but its better that way. Not predictable :)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Nadia is a hitwoman, but not your average hitwoman. She is an ex-cop. After a series of events fires up her blood about the injustice of the law, she starts taking hits for criminals. While she claims she isn't a vigilante, she is perhaps only a step below that. With her partner, Jack, teaching her the ropes this time they are hunting together for a pro turned serial killer.This book was really good. It wasn't too dark but it had a serious tone to it. The beginning was a little hard to get through but I will definitly be looking for the sequel.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      A light and perhaps fluffy read, that hit the right spot at the right time. I enjoyed this and liked the characters. Nadia is an ex-cop with a troubled past, who has turned assassin to pay her bills. She teams up with other assassins when a serial killer starts killing people hitman style, and their careers are all put in jeopardy.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This starts well; fast action, credible and interesting heroine, orginal premise. I felt it lost pace in the middle - too much focus on demonstrating craft and not enough insight into what these kinds of folks are about. The last quarter of the book got things back on track.I know Armstrong can write. Parts of this book show her talent well. Perhaps what marred my enjoyment was my lack of sympathy for the laconic "Jack" character. Laconic is much hard to do attractively in a book than in a movie. I found his partly completed sentences and general reticence irritating. I enjoyed Nadia and found her compelling.I'm going to read the next in the series and see if things take off.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Enjoyable, a new direction. I prefer the paranormal series, but as Armstrong's preferred protagonists all seem to be female predators, she still knows how to deliver a good story. Nadia, quiet family mobster hitman, works with her newly acquired mentor and friends to find and stop an old hitman gone serial killer. This is a solid murder mystery with all the excitement of drawing out the story mixed in with some character insight into paid killers. Worth reading the sequel.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I loved this book. Ex cop turned hitwoman goes on the hunt for a hitman turned serial killer, with the help of other hitmen. The pacing was great, the writing spot on, the story was enough of a cat and mouse game to keep me interested but not frustrated. Despite our heroine being a Canuck, most of the action takes place in the USA, so I'm looking forward to the next book which seems to take place more in and around the lodge that she owns in Cottage Country.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Not as good as her witch/werewolf series but still entertaining.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Former cop, Nadia Stafford, runs a guest lodge in Canada but in the off-season she supplements her income by working as a hitman for a Mafia family. She gets a call from her mentor, Jack, who wants to recruit her help in hunting for a serial killer who is zigzagging the country and leaving behind dead bodies. The killer seems extremely efficient and there's a rumor he may be a member of the hitman community.

      Nadia is a fascinating character and the author has given her a lot more depth than I expected when I first started the book. Nadia is a former cop who lost her job when she went vigilante and took justice into her own hands. She is conflicted and has plenty of flaws. She kills people for money but tries to maintain some sort of honor. Her mentor, Jack, is an enigmatic man of few words but he's obviously attracted to Nadia.

      I really enjoyed the characters and the storyline but I felt like it took too long to set up the plot. The last half is fast moving though and made up for the slow start. I thought it was an enjoyable story and would definitely check out the next book in the series, Made to be Broken.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Ex-cop turned hit-woman - sounds exciting, huh?Well, it ain't.The story is very (very very) slow. There is no tension developed (the bad guy does bad things at the same pace throughout). There are too many minor characters (every hit-man in the area must've been dragged into the story, most of them with no obvious point). There are too many stereotypes (hit-woman is a survivor of sexual assault who "gets even" by being a hit-woman, main hit-man is the strong and silent mentor type, the other main-hit-man is also a cop-hitman and there's a very weak romantic triangle between these three... and I didn't mention the older woman mentor-hit-woman who... oh nevermind, she's just there for the development of some fake tension).On to the bad guy - hit-man gone crazy? Why? Well, the reader never finds out because the author never tells us. The book just wasn't logical. There aren't 6 hit-people who'll all work together to bring down an additional randomly gone crazy hit-man. And if there were, they wouldn't all be buddy-buddy, and they wouldn't all have the same moral high-ground (hey, they are HITMEN for crying out loud, that doesn't put them at the top of the moral list). Anyway, I won't be reading any more in this series and wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this one.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I've been a big fan of Kelley Armstrong since her early years of writing the Otherworld series. I love that she has branched out from the paranormal to other genres and this series about a female hitman (hit-woman?) from Canada did not disappoint. I'm not sure why I put off starting this series for so long but I plan to read the other two sometime this year.

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    • 4/5
      This is the fourth novella in the Murderbot Diaries series. There is a full length novel in this series planned to release in 2020. If you enjoyed the previous novellas you will enjoy this one as well. They are quick and entertaining sci-fi reads.This ties up the main plot line involving Dr. Mensah and GrayCris Corporation. Murderbot is trying to save his old buddies from the first book while submitting evidence that GrayCris is acting shady. There is quite a bit of action in this volume and it was great to see all the characters from the first book again. I have enjoyed these novellas and enjoyed watching Murderbot learn how to both blend in with humans and take pride in himself as a bot.Overall this is a great continuation of the series and wraps up this main storyline. I would recommend to those who enjoy humourous action-packed sci-fi about AIs and what it means to be human.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is the fourth of a series of science fiction novellas that are at the same time violent, full of non-stop danger and adventure, and humorous meditations on existence and human nature. The protagonist, part robot with organic parts, calls itself Murderbot, because of an incident in its past for which it wasn’t guilty, but the appellation stuck. In any event, Murderbot is a security robot, or SecBot, designed to protect its clients - who are humans - from any threats. But Murderbot as gone “rogue,” having hacked its controlling module so that it now has free will. Murderbot would like nothing better than to spend its time watching all the space adventure series it has downloaded, but still can’t resist the pull to rescue humans from all the scrapes they continually get themselves into.In this installment, Murderbot learns that his former client and now friend from the first novella has now been accused by the evil corporation GrayCris of corporate espionage. Murderbot knows the truth - that it is GrayCris that is engaged in criminal behavior, and has the evidence to prove it. But first he must rescue Dr. Mensah, who was taken hostage by GrayCris. If you have been following the series you will safely be able to predict that Murderbot will get into outrageously dangerous situations, take out the numerous bad guys (or bad bots) that attack him, and save the day. But getting there is where all the fun is.Evaluation: Murderbot has no gender, but I think of it as a “he”; perhaps that is just a reflection of my personal bias. No one in the books have that same problem. They are of all races and genders and don’t tend to categorize any others, whether human or not. Murderbot has a variety of super-tech capabilities, but seems very human, indeed. It is more powerful than Lee Child’s Jack Reacher character, although reminiscent of him in ways, but amusing, seems more “human” than Jack. Best of all, Murderbot’s dry sense of humor, sardonic wit, and constant existential angst are supremely entertaining. I love this series!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Tons of fun. Ex-cop-turned-hitman (er, hitwoman) does detective work to figure out which of her colleagues is breaking the rules. It's more thriller than mystery, but it's paced well and there are tons of delightful secondary characters (the happily-partnered elderly lesbian conwomen in particular won me over.) The criminals are always the interesting characters in thrillers, and this book succeeds largely because it focuses on them. And where else can you find a thoughful exploration of the generational differences in the acceptance of female assassins in the Mafia?

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    • 4/5
      This is a great, fast paced thriller with a fantastic heroine. I love Kelley Armstrong's novels and this is one of my favorites so far.

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    • 4/5
      I was suprised by how much I enjoyed this book. Though not especially original (old hitman turns serial killer, other hitmen try to kill him before he gives the profession a bad rep) I liked Nadia's personality and enjoyed spending time with the professionally paranoid and seeing them dance around becoming friends. The serial killer was not particularly interesting, as it should be, and our nefarious heroes carried the day (no real suspense there) This is the beginning of a series and I look forward to reading more.

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    • 4/5
      Re-read, enjoyed a lot, went out and grabbed the next in the series now that I knew it's out. It's not rocket science and it doesn't have the extra zing of the supernatural-based Women of the Otherworld series, but it's solid, pacey, readable, fun, and has a great lead character in Nadia Stafford.

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    • 3/5
      Smooth writing, straightforward storytelling, lots of interaction between characters. The only other book that I have read by the same author is Bitten. As I read through this book, I can't help but notice a fair number of common elements. The heroin got drawn into a parallel life somewhat unwillingly and is mentored by a small group of seasoned practitioners while romantic tension developed among the main characters. The heroines in both books are constantly dealing with emotional baggages and rage. The actual story line of manhunt (or werewolf hunt in the case of Bitten) almost become a subplot amidst all the intertwined relationships among the characters. There were several action scenes that were quite intense. All in all an effortless entertaining read.
    • 1/5
      Tried reading this book, interest did not stick. I love Kelley Armstrong but I was not feeling this book.
    • 5/5
      The last of the four Murderbot novellas. All four have been fantastic. Great premise, and great characters. In this book the overarching plot finally comes full circle as Murderbot is reunited with his crew from the first novella. While I loved these stories I am going to have to wait a bit to dig into the follow-on novels. Too many other books on my pile to be read!
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure what took me so long to read this book. I love Kelley Armstrong. I've read everything except this series. It is wonderful. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book. Curious how many of the characters will be in the next book. I hope we'll see more Jack (I think we will). I also think we'll see Evelyn. I really didn't care for Quinn. Didn't see enough of Felix to comment. I'm sure the story will be great no matter who we see.
    • 4/5
      Exit Strategy follows Nadia - an ex-cop turned hitwoman - as she and a collection of other hitmen try to hunt down one of their own who has turned serial killer. While each professional has their own personal reason - from personal to simply bad for business - Nadia is fueled by a sense of justice and ultimate desire to protect. Overall, I found the book to be very entertaining. I like hitmen (fictionally - my sense of self-preservation keeps me from liking real ones), and Armstrong delivers a wide range to chose from. The sense of secrecy between them keeps any characters from feeling too shallow, while preserving the sense of mystery surrounding not only the case, but the "who and why" of how the group comes together. At 480 pages it's a nice meaty chunk of entertainment that is perfect for a long snow day or lounging by a pool.
    • 4/5
      This is an enjoyable book by one of my favorite urban fantasy writers, and yet I didn't enjoy it nearly so much as her Otherworld series. I liked it enough that I'm not sorry I bought it, but it's debatable whether I'll buy the next one (assuming there is a next one) as quickly as I did this one. (I bought this book within a day or two of its release date.)One of the reasons I didn't like this book as much as Armstrong's other work is the genre. I highly prefer my fiction to have an element of the paranormal in it. Doesn't have to be werewolves or magic or elves, but I don't like straight fiction nearly as much as fiction with a twist. (I read to escape. How much of an escape is reading about a world that actually exists? Not quite enough, for me.)Another reason I prefer the Otherworld series is the main male character's voice. Jack has a consistent way of speaking where he brings the subject up as a question, and then provides his take on it. So: This book? Like it well enough. In comparison? Not so much. It's a great way of characterizing him, and she's very consistent with it, so the writing itself is solid. But it bugs me, and so I didn't like him much, and so the read wasn't as enjoyable.But... all that said. The book is solid. It's well written, with the quality I have come to expect from Kelley. The twists are nicely disguised, and as long as you pause to read the chapter headings (numbers for main characters, names for villain) you won't be confused by the occasional POV shifts. I think this is a great branching out for one of my favorite authors, and I hope she can make a go of it. I definitely do recommend the book, especially for those people who like straight fiction better than I do.
    • 4/5
      The premise: Nadia Stafford is a former cop who was shamed out of the force, and now has to deliver justice through unconventional means: she's a hitwoman, but a hitwoman with a conscience. Normally a solo-act, but when a serial killer starts a killing spree across the U.S. and the clues point to a former hitman, Nadia hooks up with others in her profession to find the killer and take him down, before he brings down all of them. To do this, Nadia must use everything experience has taught her, and to transform herself from predator to prey. She's got to catch him, before he catches her. My RatingMust Have: now, I can't say whether it's a must-have for a mystery guru, as I'm no regular reader of the mystery genre. But I get ENOUGH mystery in the genres of urban fantasy and even science fiction that I recognize something good when I see it, and when I consider that growing up, my favorite television shows were MacGyver, Profiler, Batman: The Animated Series, and Alias (well, I was an "adult" by time Alias came out, but bear with me), I feel like I know enough to enjoy a good book in the genre when I read it. For Kelley Armstrong fans, this book is DEFINITELY a must, though you won't find it in SF/F/H. I've found this series in both the mystery/thriller shelves and just in regular fiction, so when you're looking in the store, make sure you exhaust all possibilities. ANYWAY: anyone who's a fan of, say, Alias, is going to really enjoy this: Nadia is a fantastic heroine, and the world of hitmen/hitwomen is definitely fascinating. I loved the cast, the level of tension that keeps pages turning at a deliberate pace, and the mystery holding the whole story together of the Helter Skelter Killer was just a lovely excuse (and a well-played plot) that gave me a chance to get to know these people. I promptly bought book two, Made To Be Broken as soon as I finished this one, because while this book is certainly a stand-alone, the writing and characters are too good not to continue as soon as possible. I really, really enjoyed this, and it's definitely worth the time and money. Check it out.Review style: Stream-of-conscious review style, but don't worry, no spoilers for this one. If you're interested, the full review is in my LJ. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Kelley Armstrong's EXIT STRATEGYHappy Reading! :)
    • 4/5
      This is quite a change of direction from Kelly Armstrong, author of the 'Women of the Otherworld' series.Nadia is an ex-cop turned contract killer. She's a kind of vigilante, only targeting mob vendors who go too far (her first job was someone who ignored the warnings and killed a hooker he was meant to be protecting).There's an interesting, although to my mind rather implausible, network of other guns for hire and their mentors and the like, discussion of types of contract killers and so much more, dotted around a man hunt. The back cover gives away that they're hunting for a contract killer apparently turned serial killer, and the pace keeps up and keeps you engaged despite the flaws.Not so good as the best of her other books, and the adrenaline junkie heroine is rather reminiscent of Paige and Elena, but it feels fresher and it's good enough I'll read another one.
    • 5/5
      I've been a fan of Kelley Armstrong for a while, so when I heard she was coming out with a book in a new and different series, rather than the Otherworld books I'd read so far, I was pretty excited. If I hadn't known I was getting it for my birthday, I would likely have run out and gotten it the day it showed up in bookstores.I was a bit scared, I have to say, since I've noted in the past that the crossover from fantasy, even real-world fantasy, often makes it very difficult to go into a realm where there are no magical powers to save you. Turns out, that fear was uncalled for. This book was very good, and was as good as I'd expected.Here, instead of werewolves and witches, we have a hitwoman, who also runs a lodge out in rural Ontario, and her gruff partner, trying to hunt down a serial killer that's drawing more attention to the hitman community than they'd like. The book's got some twists, a couple of which I saw coming, many of which I didn't, and that's a good thing for a mystery/thriller type of book.The characters are sharp, the dialogue and inner monologue is as good as usual, and Nadia, the main character, feels different from the other narrator characters she's had before, mostly. As I was reading, I found a bunch of parallels with Bitten, the first Otherworld book, in terms of structure and character buildup. There's a background that keeps getting referred to, and brought up gradually over the course of the book. Her style, though, is better here, and that makes the book more fun in general, and loses the parts of Bitten that I disliked.All in all, I'm pretty happy with it, although it could have used some more proofreading before being let out the door. As long as that doesn't distract you too much, then this is one that her fans and thriller fans should give a try.
    • 4/5
      This was very good, not my favorite, but a satisfying end.
      Murderbot is one of my favorite fictional characters. I usually do not like books written in first person, but this was just so well done.
    • 4/5
      Fourth book in the Murderbot series, this story makes connections among the first three books. In this installment, the protagonist SEC Unit reconnects with Dr. Mensah, from book one. Mensah has been abducted by GrayCris Corporation and the SEC Unit must figure out how to rescue her. The SEC Unit is moving along the continuum toward artificial intelligence until it borders on human, though it still resists embracing any human emotions.

      I really love the SEC Unit as a main character, with its logic, sardonic sense of humor, and desire to protect humans. As is typical in this series, the first half develops the characters and catches readers up on the backstory, and the second becomes a sequence of action scenes. GrayCris continues its role as villain. For me, the development of the SEC Unit’s character is the reason I continue to read these diaries even though I am not typically a reader of books in a series.
    • 5/5
      4,5 stars

      Can't wait for the next one.

      Murderbot <3 I don't remember ever relating so much to a socially awkward and anxious character.