For an assassin, the past is the deadliest enemy of all…
Betrayed and left for dead, Caine is hiding off the grid in Pattaya, Thailand. But when human traffickers target a woman Caine swore to protect, the vengeful assassin wages a bloody one-man war to get her back.
Facing off against the Thai underworld, a jungle militia, and an insane criminal warlord, Caine will stop at nothing to save his friend.
But when the trail of bloodshed leads to the frozen wasteland of Siberia, Caine himself hunted by a crack team of Russian mercenaries, led by a brutal Spetsnaz commander.
From sweltering jungles to a frozen lake, Caine unleashes hell on anyone who gets in his way. For years he’s kept his deadly instincts locked inside. Now, the killer has been set free. And his enemies have no idea what’s coming for them...
Contains material previously published in the novellas Devil’s Due and Cold Kill.
Andrew Warren was born in New Jersey, but currently resides in the warmer climate of Southern California. He studied film, English and psychology at the University of Miami, and has over a decade of experience in the television and motion picture industry, where he has worked as a post-production supervisor, story producer and writer.
His passion for writing and traveling led Andrew to Japan. As soon as he set eyes on the country he fell in love with it, and felt compelled to use it as the setting for a series of novels. It took a few years, but Tokyo Black was the result of that trip.
Andrew’s writing skills have seen him write for Youtube Red's "Fight of the Living Dead," MangoTV's "Sons of Earth", and Discovery's "True Nightmares".
His love of the Far East extends to all varieties of Asian cuisine, and he scours Southern California looking for the best ramen, dumplings and beef noodle soup. All in the name or research, of course!
His fascination for the spy thriller genre was born from a love of James Bond films. Growing up, he knew that he was never going to be a muscle-bound giant, like Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Instead, he opted for charm and sophistication, with a smattering of brains and super-cool spy gadgets.
When he’s not working or writing classic spy thrillers, Andrew likes to relax at home with his pet dachshund, Ares, and his cat, Mina. He is currently working on the next Thomas Caine thriller, which will be set in East Africa.
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It is interesting to see the change in approach of Caine. Like all of us, he is getting older and how long can he keep going this way. I wonder if Andrew Warren is looking at an aging Caine and how he may relate this to his readers who are also getting older. But I read all his books and they are a great read.
This installment in the series finds Caine in Pattaya Thailand (similar timeline to Tokyo Black) and human traffickers are rampant in the area. It doesn't concern him until they target a "bar girl" he's become friendly with and who cooks him dinner once a week for having helped her with a family problem. Once she disappears, he's on the hunt.
Of course in the process, he kills a Russian mobster involved with the trafficking ring and is then a target of his father. He goes from super hot Thailand to freezing cold Russian in the blink of an eye but those Russians have no real idea of what Caine is capable of. It's one thing to read his file, it's quite another to experience it in action.
That said, non-stop action, lots of ingenuity and about a 3.5 for me.