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Lance Priest #1
The Perfect Candidate
Lance Priest is 21, a college student and a part-time used car salesman. He's also a liar, a chameleon, a different person to everyone who meets him. This makes him unique. It also brings him to the attention of the CIA and those tasked with finding that one person who can do what others cannot. Lance may be THE PERFECT CANDIDATE. To prove he has what it takes, Lance must pull off impossible covert missions and defeat deadly operatives plotting to sell nuclear warheads to a murderous regime on the eve of Operation Desert Storm. There is no Lance will succeed, let alone survive. If Seibel€™s training doesn€™t kill him, a deadly Saudi assassin and a pair of lethal former KGB agents just might. And then there is Marta Sidorova, a rogue KGB operative who kills almost everyone she meets. Things will get messy. Life will never be the same for Lance. But in a perilous world where ruthless killers don€™t play by the rules, it is good to have a natural born killer like Lan
- GenresThriller
380 pages, Paperback
First published July 3, 2011
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About the author
Christopher Metcalf
15 books35 followersChristopher Metcalf is an Oklahoma-based author.
He is a husband, dad, sales/marketing professional and author.
He has written five novels so far -- The Perfect Candidate, The Perfect Weapon, The Perfect Angel, en el Medio and The Perfect Patriot. They are spy novels that introduce and feature a unique character - Lance Priest.
Lance is a liar, a human chameleon, a killer. He also has the ironic nickname Preacher.
He thought the world was a cold, static. He thought he would move through the world like a scientist observing subjects in an experience. Then Lance met Marta. His life and the lives of many, many others would never be the same.
The two brutally efficient killers found in each other that thing that millions, billions of others have searched for. They found love, the endless, lifelong kind. People die for this kind of love; and many will.
Metcalf is also the author of Barkley's Sandbar Christmas Miracle, a children's holiday book featuring a great dane that saves Christmas.
He is a husband, dad, sales/marketing professional and author.
He has written five novels so far -- The Perfect Candidate, The Perfect Weapon, The Perfect Angel, en el Medio and The Perfect Patriot. They are spy novels that introduce and feature a unique character - Lance Priest.
Lance is a liar, a human chameleon, a killer. He also has the ironic nickname Preacher.
He thought the world was a cold, static. He thought he would move through the world like a scientist observing subjects in an experience. Then Lance met Marta. His life and the lives of many, many others would never be the same.
The two brutally efficient killers found in each other that thing that millions, billions of others have searched for. They found love, the endless, lifelong kind. People die for this kind of love; and many will.
Metcalf is also the author of Barkley's Sandbar Christmas Miracle, a children's holiday book featuring a great dane that saves Christmas.
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March 11, 2014
Perfect Candidate
Chose not to give a top rating because the book is as difficult to follow as it was. The concept and action story plot is calculated to keep you off balance but it gets way off as you near the end, almost as though Metcalf got tired of writing and decided to fast forward to whatever his next adventure would be. Still a good read and worth the try.
Chose not to give a top rating because the book is as difficult to follow as it was. The concept and action story plot is calculated to keep you off balance but it gets way off as you near the end, almost as though Metcalf got tired of writing and decided to fast forward to whatever his next adventure would be. Still a good read and worth the try.
June 4, 2014
Tremendous Start to the Seriesp
This was an easy 5 stars for me.
Lance draws you in quickly. CM develops elaborate characters and puts them in such descriptive scenes you can't wait to find out what happens next.
A little clunky with the style in the first few chapters, but this book explodes half way in.
This is a superb spy story! I'm ready for Lance's next mission.
This was an easy 5 stars for me.
Lance draws you in quickly. CM develops elaborate characters and puts them in such descriptive scenes you can't wait to find out what happens next.
A little clunky with the style in the first few chapters, but this book explodes half way in.
This is a superb spy story! I'm ready for Lance's next mission.
May 4, 2014
I loved this character. I read really looked forward to reading some more chapters every night. I was really happy to see there was another in the series when I was done with the book
January 5, 2014
last half of book is great, but I felt I could have read the first chapter then skipped to about chapter 20
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