The Kill List Author: Frederick Forsyth | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C5R8364 | Format: EPUB
The Kill List Description
An extraordinary cutting-edge suspense novel from the master of international intrigue and #1 New York Times–bestselling author. In Virginia, there is an agency bearing the bland name of Technical Operations Support Activity, or TOSA. Its one mission is to track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short document known as the Kill List. TOSA actually exists. So does the Kill List.
Added to it is a new name: a terrorist of frightening effectiveness called the Preacher, who radicalizes young Muslims abroad to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately for him, one of the kills is a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA’s top hunter of men.
He has spent the last six years at his job. He knows nothing about his target’s name, face, or location. He realizes his search will take him to places where few could survive. But the Preacher has made it personal now. The hunt is on.
- File Size: 831 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Adult (August 20, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5R8364
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,303 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Forsyth came to fame in 1971 with The Day of the Jackal, a gripping thriller about the search for an anonymous contract killer who had been paid to assassinate French president Charles De Gaulle. He deserved the fame he got for the book because it really was good! That was his second book and first novel. Since then, a string of others has followed of exceptionally high quality. So here we are , seventeen books and fourteen novels later,and here is The Kill List, which is another knockout spy thriller by Forsyth.
You don't read Forsyth novels for lush description or depth of the character development. Basically, you read them for plot. Forsyth is a pro at laying out exciting but credible high action narratives, based on the most recent of events and thus exceedingly relevant. He's an info wonk who knows and can explicate, without excess verbiage, the details that lend credence to his sometimes exceedingly complicated stories: in this current one, the technology of modern long distance spying, the ins and outs of politics (national and international), what to do if you forced to negotiate with Somali pirates, how to carry off a successful high risk "black op" while keeping it well below the radar screen.
Forsyth is a bare bones, no nonsense kind of writer who tells you only as much about his protagonists as you need in order to understand what they're doing and why they did it. He's not all that interested in local color but a fair amount of it still appears in his novels any way because his plots move across colorful and often dangerous terrains.
Kill List is about the hunt for an Arab terrorist, named the "Preacher," who has been inciting young Muslims in the United States and Britain to commit random individual acts of terrorism.
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