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Overview

The hunter has become the hunted

Victor is a freelancer, a professional, a killer—-the best there is. He’s ice cold, methodical, and deadly. He lives alone. He operates alone. No one knows his background, or even his name. For him, business is a straight transaction. He’s given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid.

He’s in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. The contract is simple, routine, and Victor completes it with trademark efficiency, only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life. Faced with powerful and determined enemies, and caught in the crossfire of an international conspiracy unfolding across four continents, Victor is forced to go on the run across a winter-ravaged Europe. Pursued by the authorities, hired assassins, and intelligence agencies from both sides of the Atlantic, he discovers that no place is safe for him anymore and there is no one he can trust.

But Victor is no easy target, and he’s every bit as ruthless as those hunting him. He will find out who wants him dead and why, one corpse at a time.

Debut author Tom Hinshelwood has written a classic cat-and-mouse thriller for the twenty-first century that takes off from the very first page and never lets up. Filled with adrenaline-charged action worthy of the big screen, The Killer will have readers looking down the barrel of a gun at every turn.

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Library Journal
Hinshelwood's background as a video editor is evident: this bang-up debut thriller is just begging for the big screen. Top assassin Victor accomplishes an assignment, but a waiting hit squad lets him know his client has betrayed him. Hunting that client—with two assassins, the CIA, and Russian Special Forces on his trail—keeps Victor running from London to Moscow to Tanzania. VERDICT The nearly nonstop action with a high body count will remind readers of Robert Ludlum, but the pace between shoot-outs is slowed by Victor's introspective analysis of his lonely life. [Library marketing.]
Publishers Weekly
British scriptwriter Hinshelwood's superlative fiction debut takes familiar suspense elements—a hired killer, a CIA traitor, a gorgeous operative, Russian spies, and an espionage coup involving advanced weapon technology—and whips them into nonstop action that veers and twists from one ferocious gun battle, double cross, and betrayal to the next. In a Paris alley early one morning, hired assassin Victor performs a routine job, shooting 58-year-old Latvian national Andris Ozols, then relieving the body of a small flash drive. When Victor returns to his posh hotel on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, he unexpectedly must fight a gang of other professional hit men. Further attempts on his life raise the question: who wants him dead and what's on the memory stick? The action shifts from Paris and various spots in Europe to CIA headquarters and the coast of Africa, the scene of a final cataclysmic clash. Thriller fans will be eager to see more from this bright new talent. (Apr.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312558048
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 4/13/2010
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 721,526
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

TOM HINSHELWOOD is a freelance video editor and scriptwriter. He was born in Staffordshire, England and now lives in London. The Killer is his first novel.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 24, 2011

    Well done

    A lot of dead guys, but still good.

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  • Posted March 15, 2011

    Entertaining!

    I enjoyed this book very much until around page 240. 20 page car chases and knife fights don't do it for me. The book was very well written hence the four star rating, but I think this new author is much to good to have 40-50 pages of filler in the middle of a novel. As I said. Very well written, so give it a shot you could do far worse.

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  • Posted August 8, 2010

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    Attention To Detail

    Never has reading a book tired me more than reading The Killer. What starts out with unadorned killing ends up in an orgy of battle,with every detail lovingly conveyed by the author, Tom Hinshelwood. His efforts in creating this book must have been awesome, as he really seems to know not only his weapons, but the use and misuse of them. Each assassination is carefully choreographed. Hinshelwood puts no mustard on his hot dog, and his killer has no edge of sympathy about him. So it''s a bit of tough going, reading a killer book without anyone to root for. We eventually learn of the CIA's involvement in the story, and none of those characters are folks you'd want to take home to dinner either. But, the author does keep the reader tagging along, if only to see how it all turns out. There is some reward then, when all of the killer characters end up in Tanzania, and the battle of battles begins. That choreography I mentioned is nowhere better than here, when assassins take after each other with gusto. And again, that attention to detail, so prized by the author, requires the reader to stop and take a breath as the action is so heavy and convoluted that you can only read slowly to make sure you are getting it all.
    Why finish such a tedious novel? Gun lovers, soldiers (of fortune and not) may find it an easy read. But for myself, I admired the creativity and choreography, and even cared slightly for the killer at the end, but not much. Finishing it was its own reward, although I will point out that the author's ending leaves the door open for many more battles to come.

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  • Posted July 8, 2010

    The Killer gets a killer review.

    I thought this book was excellent. The detail of this book is very good. It keeps you intrested from the first to last page. I would suggest this book to anyone.

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