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Jonas Wilde: Eliminator #3
The Predator
Professional assassin retires, then members of his organization are murdered, he off to Rome to avenge their deaths
- GenresThriller
190 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1968
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Andrew York
65 books5 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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June 14, 2018
The third Jonas Wilde novel (for some reason Top Notch Thrillers have not republished book 2, why is that? Strange and infuriating). I didn't enjoy this one as much as Book 1, it started off well, but went downhill once the action shifted from Rome to the US. Very dull passages, some clunky dialogue too.
May 15, 2025
It’s part of a series that I won’t pursue. After a strong start it became a little unbelievable and superficial. A short book almost a novella.
December 20, 2012
Though I normally like to read a series in order, these days it's difficult to find them available. This is the third in the series, but my first. I truly enjoyed it. It reminded me of the spy craze of the 60's and the 'realism' that many of the books had that the movies and television didn't.
The character of Jonas Wilde is a complicated man who doubts his position as an assassin for the British Government. The plot is fairly simple, that of the (spoiler) spy who 'quits' and goes the revenge mission alone. Only to find he's been played by his organization and was on assignment all along.
I know the first book of the series is available as an ebook and I want to read it, but I wanted to read a couple (I try to find them through local libraries) before I invest a dwindling budget in a series I'd never finish.
The character of Jonas Wilde is a complicated man who doubts his position as an assassin for the British Government. The plot is fairly simple, that of the (spoiler) spy who 'quits' and goes the revenge mission alone. Only to find he's been played by his organization and was on assignment all along.
I know the first book of the series is available as an ebook and I want to read it, but I wanted to read a couple (I try to find them through local libraries) before I invest a dwindling budget in a series I'd never finish.
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