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    The Rhythm Section

    By Mark Burnell

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    Soon to be a major motion picture, from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively.

    She has nothing to lose and only revenge to live for

    She thought her life was over…

    Stephanie Patrick's life is destroyed by the crash of flight NE027: her family was on board and there were no survivors.

    Devastated, she falls into a world of drugs and prostitution – until the day she discovers that the crash wasn't an accident, but an act of terrorism.

    Filled with rage, and with nothing left to lose, she joins a covert intelligence organization. But throughout her training and operations she remains focused on one goal above all: revenge.

    Editor's Note

    Action-packed…

    Read this action-packed spy thriller before you see the movie adaptation starring Blake Lively and Jude Law. One woman will stop at nothing in her quest for revenge against the terrorists responsible for the plane crash that killed her family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateNov 26, 2015
    ISBN9780007397556
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    The Rhythm Section
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    Mark Burnell

    Mark Burnell was born in Britain and grew up in Brazil. He is currently living in Northumberland with his wife and son, and is working on his fourth novel featuring Stephanie Patrick.

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    • 4/5
      Intriguing "rise" of a young Stephanie Patrick, devastated but shut down emotionally after her family (except for older brother) were all murdered in horrible terrorist -sponsored airplane disaster. When the novel begins, we experience the last hour of the airplane passengers; then it shifts to Stephanie, college dropout, living the life of a half-homeless, drug infused prostitute, using her body to gain just enough money to get by, to forget, to be numb. A bit of downer at the start(it's graphic, and sad...I was hoping for a suspense-filled political mystery) - but then the book shifts gears again when she meets a journalist, who will not leave her alone. He's begun to investigate the crash, and is certain -although the airline authorities and both the US and United Kingdom officials decided it was mechanical failure- that it was a terrorist act, and that the authorities are trying to keep it quiet. Through his quiet support and friendship, Stephanie crawls back to her former reality & leaves her pimp, the streets of London's seamy underbelly, & slowly begins to allow herself to feel again. When the journalist is murdered, his apartment and files ransacked, Stephanie realizes everything he suspected & told her was true. Her newfound anger on behalf of her murdered family & all the passengers propels her into the next phase: avenging angel. While sometimes contrived, the precise diction, with straightforward descriptions, action sequences, and the underlying thread of impending future terrorist attacks kept me turning pages. Instead of an emotionally "cool" spy thriller, Stephanie's trauma, her struggles with juggling her multiple identities, & her reoccurring bouts of self-loathing & guilt make this a more complex & emotional story. And it was great to have a well-rounded, very imperfect female protagonist, albeit a very beautiful woman in her prime of life. I was comparing this to Jason Matthews' Red Sparrow...
    • 5/5
      I read this because a movie has been made of the novel. While movies are often unfaithful to books they are often indicators of worthwhile reads. The lead character, a female responding in belated anger to the discovery that her parent’s death in a plane crash was due to a terrorist bombing decides to seek vengance. Following her families death she had lost herself and become a prostitute with a drug problem. Somehow she is saved at the last extreme by a freelance journalist. After his murder she is recruited by a top secret terrorist murdering angency of the British government. The twists and turns of the story make for good suspense. Now I need to ponder watching the movie, and whether to go on with the series. Always too much to read. Stephanie, the protagonist goes through many identities in the course of her character development. The character develpopment is a foundation for this book making it interesting.Written in the early 90s it is eerily prescient of events of the 2000s.
    • 4/5
      My actual rating for this book is closer to a 3.5 than a 4. The book cover touts the main character of this new series, Stephanie Patrick, as another Nikita or Lisbeth Salander. In a way, she is, in that she is a damaged woman who transforms from a prostitute barely making ends meet to a well-trained assassin. And as with any organizations that train and deploy assassins, nobody can be trusted, and that's what keeps things interesting: who is going to double-cross whom?There were two main problems with this book that kept it from living up to its potential:1) The book took FOREVER to finally get Stephanie to the point where she gets recruited to be an assassin. I had nearly lost all my patience for the book, waiting for the plot to finally get going along this thread.2) Once Stephanie is recruited, she is put on random assignments under multiple identities. The assignments are so random and not related to each other, that I was actually bored. No assignment lasted long enough for me to really get into her identity and what she was doing. The book kept jumping from one assignment to the next, with Stephanie on airplanes flying back and forth all over Europe.The book was at its best when it slowed down enough to give us a better glimpse into Stephanie's feelings. The one relationship that she hesitantly embarks upon that feels real to her has moments of true tenderness because I could really feel how difficult it was for her to be herself.The book was also good when it took a single terrorist plot and stuck to it at length. That drew me in, and I was on the edge of my seat, wanting to find out what happens. This is what the book needed to do more of, rather than skipping from assignment to assignment without having any depth for the reader to care what Stephanie was doing.So overall I found this book to be a mixed bag. This one mostly kept my attention, but I'm not convinced that I want to read the next in the series.

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    • 3/5
      “It’s like in music. Drums and bass are the rhythm section, right? Your heart is the drums, your breathing is the bass.”I enjoyed the first 170 pages of this book! Stephanie is an interesting character, with such tragic turmoil in her life. “Assassin comes from the word hashasheen, which means, literally, smokers of hash.” When Stephanie becomes an assassin, the story became very confusing to me, who is linked to who and what, and why? I kinda felt like I had smoked some hash!Interestingly, I found the ‘Afterword to the 2018 Edition’ to be the most appealing part of the book! I had never heard of the Bojinka plot before! Wow.