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    Exit Strategy

    Written by Steve Hamilton

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission...

    Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them.

    But first he has to find them-they're ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified "deep black" locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them-and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man. 

    As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself.

    In an action-packed journey that leads from a high-security military installation in the Appalachian Mountains to a secret underground bunker hidden far below the streets of New York City, Nick Mason will have to become, more than ever before, the lethal weapon that Darius Cole created.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9780451483591
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    Exit Strategy
    Author

    Steve Hamilton

    Steve Hamilton was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated from the University of Michigan where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for fiction. In 2006, he won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. His novels have won numerous awards and media acclaim beginning with the very first in the Alex McKnight series, A Cold Day in Paradise, which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Mystery by an Unpublished Writer. Once published, it went on to win the MWA Edgar and the PWA Shamus Awards for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Anthony and Barry Awards. His book The Lock Artist is the winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Hamilton currently works for IBM in upstate New York where he lives with his wife Julia and their two children.

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    • 4/5
      This more than the first Nick Mason delivered a real change of pace relative to Hamilton's other books. Explosive, bone-crunching action, dodgy moral foundation and a pervasive sense of claustrophobia kept me turning the page, hoping for a satisfying conclusion. Instead you get a gleefully cavalier attitude towards the supporting cast and a genuine sense that anything could happen now. Efficient and entertaining.
    • 5/5
      Exit Strategy is the follow up of the Second Life of Nick Mason. Exit Strategy is a page turner I found hard to put down. It helps to have read the first book as it sets the characters and plot up. The ending either set was set up for another Nick Mason or the conclusion of the series-I'm not sure which is the case.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book. I happened across book 1 at the library and really enjoyed it. I love the character of Nick Mason. He is torn between doing the right thing and protecting the people he cares about. I am certainly a fan of this series and I hope there will be a third book!

      I received a galley copy from First to Read.
    • 5/5
      This is the follow-up book to The Second Life of Nick Mason where he is trying to take back control of his life from the crime lord who owns it. I found this book to be action-packed from the first page to the last page. I liked it better than the first book and the ending was a complete surprise. The good characters are starting to grow on me and the bad ones I hate even more. I was glad to see that Cole got what he deserves and I am now looking forward to reading the third book in the series. I find Steve Hamilton to be an excellent writer and I need to check out his Alex McNight novels. I would highly recommend this book to those who like action-packed thrillers. It's best to read them in order so start with The Second Life of Nick Mason.
    • 3/5
      In this second book of the series, Nick Mason has become a killer but he is not the only assassin in this book. He and his handler Quintero both work for Darius Cole, a crime boss who runs his Chicago criminal operation from prison. That's where Nick met him and the price Nick paid for his early release was 20 years worth of indebtedness to Cole. Nick wants to exit this arrangement. Strangely, he never contemplates suicide, which would have both solved his problem and lessened the number of dead bodies, but also would have shortened the book series. "Before Gordie could reach for his Ruger, Burke swung the toolbox, shattering both the radius and the ulna bones in the big man's forarm, then quickly closed in on him in the confined space, broke two of his fingers and took the gun away. He hit him in the face with it until his nose cartilage was pulverized and several of his teeth were lying on the bathroom floor." That's what you get in this book. If it isn't what you want, move on to another book. This should be a movie, and probably will be, but it just wasn't my kind of book. I found the first book entertaining, but the unbelievability factor was ramped up too high for me this time and it was just nonstop action and brutality with an extremely high body count. This book was more cartoonlike and less plausible than the first book. After Nick has been bleeding on his girlfriend's floor for a while, and he then tries to send her away because someone is going to kill her, she actually says to Nick "but what about us" (they have been together for maybe 2 weeks) and he, of course in his manly way, replies "there is no us". If this were a movie, at that point the entire audience would be laughing hysterically. However, I am sure there is an audience for both the movie and this series, which I assume will continue after this book. It just wasn't for me. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 4/5
      Poor Nick. I thought he might get out of his contract with Darius Cole.
    • 4/5
      Second book in the series and even more action than the first book.

      At the end of the previous book, Nick had decided to find a way out of his situation. He's been acting as an assassin to a criminal kingpin and wants out of that life. This book opens with more "assignments" for Nick while he plots his way free.

      I won't give any spoilers but there are lots a twists and turns. The final twist is telegraphed early, but Nick doesn't see it coming - or doesn't want to see it coming.

      The publishing date for the third book seems to have been pushed out, but I'm looking forward to where this goes next.
    • 1/5
      The premise of 'Exit Strategy' is that a man who has become involved in organized crime is forced by his "boss" to commit murder whenever ordered so as to eliminate anyone who is a threat to the organization. The protagonist, Nick Mason, is unleashed from time to time and kills as ordered, often outnumbered, outgunned and at a distinct disadvantage. Somehow, he is able to overcome all odds and succeed in his lethal encounters. Mason is painted as an unstoppable Angel of Death type. Supposedly, he is a reluctant hit man, and Steve Hamilton tries to give him some humanity by showing his interest in not killing innocents. The premise doesn't hold with the action. Mason outthinks and outwits all his opposition and succeeds every time, despite the odds, yet he is shown as totally incapable of figuring out how to cancel the bosses leverage over him - the threat to kill those important to him if he were to refuse or to fail. Hence, the Exit Strategy is his lame plan to get out from under. The story fails miserably as there is no reason to identify with Nick Mason as some kind of "good guy forced to do bad things", it simply doesn't wash. I did not enjoy this book and regret spending the time necessary to read it all the way through. It was clearly written with a sequel in mind, one I will never bother reading, as I don't think anything written by Steve Hamilton would be worth the effort. I'd give it a rating of less than 1/2 star if one was available.
    • 4/5
      In Exit Strategy, Steve Hamilton has created a dynamite followup to The Second Life of Nick Mason which introduced us to the titular hero. Nick Mason traded his life to criminal kingpin Darius Cole in exchange for his freedom. The freedom to see his family, an ex-wife and a young daughter. Now, whenever Nick’s phone rings, he must do Cole’s bidding with no questions asked. In The Second Life of Nick Mason, Mason learns he has traded one cage for another. In Exit Strategy, Nick must keep doing increasingly dangerous jobs, including killing the people in witness protection who stand between Darius Cole and freedom.Exit Strategy starts with a bang, literally, as Nick finds himself sent to gun down one of the witnesses from Darius Cole’s trial who is back in Chicago in preparation to testify again at the retrial. Nick must continue to perform his tasks while searching for a way out of his seemingly impossible predicament. Each step seems to take him further away from the man he thought he was. His latest task sets him on a collision course with a dangerous assassin: the man he replaced in Cole’s organization.The first Nick Mason book gives us some background on how Nick came to be in his current predicament and what he was willing to trade to see his family again. In this book, the action leaps off the page from the very beginning and continues at a breakneck pace all the way to the end. Nick has to compromise his morals to the point where it’s unclear they still exist. What is clear is that failure to follow Cole’s instructions place the lives of his family in jeopardy, as well as anyone else who is close to him. Nick is placed in the impossible situation of helping Cole win his freedom, which will only put Nick further under Cole’s thumb.Hamilton does a great job of keeping the action moving from beginning to end. He never lets you feel comfortable that anyone is safe and the surprises keep coming all the way to the end. This is turning into a really good series and Nick Mason is a great creation. I can’t wait to read the next one. Highly recommended.I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of this book.
    • 5/5
      Exit Strategy] by Steve HamiltonNick Mason Series Book #24.5★'sFrom The Book:Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. But first he has to find them—they’re ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified “deep black” locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them—and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man. As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself. My Views:I had read Steve Hamilton's Alex McKnight series for years and was sorry to see that several years had past without more about Alex....so when I saw that Hamilton had produced another series about a reluctant assassin, Nick Mason, I was both excited and reluctant. How could an assassin be anything but an assassin by choice? The first book in the series... The Second Life of Nick Mason answered that question in spades. Exit Strategy...the second book in the series finds Nick trying to balance his "new life" and stay alive at the same time. He wants to see his daughter but being anywhere near her presents danger. He wants to see justice done but all his attempts are met with violence at every turn. Can Nick survive and will he ever find freedom? As readers look for those answers we are thrown a monumental twist that will keep us eagerly awaiting the third book. Don't keep us waiting Steve. Get to writing.
    • 4/5
      Second installment of the Nick Mason series. Nick has been assigned to take out witnesses in the witness protection system who testified against Darius Cole. In the meantime, everyone he knows and loves is in danger. Taut thriller, gruesome and graphic violence, eerie consequences. Nick's life is forever changed.