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The Hunter

Victor the Assassin, Book 1

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The Hunter

By: Tom Wood
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
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Summary

Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. But when a Paris job goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents, accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust, pursued by enemies too powerful to escape.

©2011 Tom Wood (P)2014 Oakhill Publishing Action & Adventure Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense Assassin Fiction Exciting

Critic reviews

"Jack Reacher meets Thomas Crown in this electrifying thriller." (Simon Kernick)
"A nonstop, breathless, trimmed-to-the-bone thriller with action sequences that are absolutely state-of-the-art. It's the best chase novel I've read in years." (Joseph Finder)

"An impressively intricate thriller.... The scenes are vivid and the plot revelations parcelled out at expert intervals.... Exciting." (New Yorker)

"A superlative debut... Thriller fans will be eager to see more from this bright new talent." (Publishers Weekly)
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A perfectly paced narrative peppered with interesting characters and sub-plots. I've enjoyed many of Lee Childs' books and feel that in Victor, I've found the next Reacher!

Really engaging adventure!

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The narrator ruined the audiobook with the accents ranging from A pirate to Arnie for the same character. (that was the female ones)

Poor performance

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This ranks respectably in my action-thriller genre collection of audiobooks. victor is a brutal and highly trained assassin which I enjoyed listening to, I would not want to get on the wrong side of him, his skills in the art of killing and assassination are deadly and superfluous of any low ranking criminal or gangster.

Reads this and you will be entertained with explosive action from start to finish.

A Good listen

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loved it! will continue with the series of Victor the Assassin. cant wait to download

great read

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Would you consider the audio edition of The Hunter to be better than the print version?

Great story, pacey and exciting, however the narration leave a lot to be desired. If you can't pull off a convincing American accent don't try, Daniel ended up sounding like an English west-country farmer.

What did you like best about this story?

An imaginative take on the anti-hero trope. Well executed (pun intended).

Would you be willing to try another one of Daniel Philpott’s performances?

Erm... No. Not unless all of the characters were English.

Narrated by a west-country farmer..?

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