Assassin

Jake Harrigan Thriller #1

by Bryan Murray

Jake Harrigan is a lethal government assassin based in Washington where his wife, who he adores, works for a large defense contractor, totally unaware of what Jake does for the government. While Jake is on a dangerous mission to terminate the patriarch of a large family oil company in Dubai, who refuses to work on illegal arms deals with rogue government agents, Jake's bosses, his wife overhears those same agents and her boss discussing their treacherous plans, after which she and her friend are terminated, just to keep them quiet. Jake is angry and devastated and with help from Sarah, a friendly Federal Agent, he goes in search of the people responsible, determined to kill them, not realising that the vengeance-seeking Arab sons and lethal bodyguards of the man he terminated in Dubai, have been sent to kill him by his treacherous agency colleagues.

Genres: Thriller

247 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2014

Reviews

[Pierre Tassé (Enjoying Books) · Rating 2 out of 5]

A simplistic novel. Shorter than a full blown story and longer than a short story. For an assassin Jake doesn't seem to have the where-with-all and spidey senses that other assassins seem to have (ie Victor the assassin, Mitch Rapp, Gabriel Allon and others). For a first story, it has the genesis of a good one but seemed "dumbed down" and trying to explain everything to the reader. In the category of "character development" well, there actually was no real background or build up...just a trusting agent. Seeing as how this was the first of a trilogy. I hate when they end up forcing you into book 2. Yes, given self-isolation and the fact I have another one of his books...I'll give book two a shot (no pun intended). MTF

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh dear! 1st time novel and shows it?

Corny and blatantly technically weak plot and amateur dialogue. Its like an academic musician deciding he can write fiction. Sorry author. Leave this genre alone.

[Victoria L. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very Poorly Written

The story was poorly constructed and poorly written. There was no depth to the characters, and the hero moved on after his wife’s death in just days. He wasn’t particularly likable. I won’t be reading the rest of the series.

[Evie Gleis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Assassin

I really enjoyed this book. So much so that I purchased book two and three as I’m interested to watch how Jake evolves.

[ROBERTO BATISTA SANTOS · Rating 2 out of 5]

i was expecting more.

The book start well, full of energy. But after 80% of reading it's started slow down. In the last chapter the book finished abruptly just opening space for a sequel new book. I hated books like this one.

[Trish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable, action and suspense delivered in a well written story

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will check for more books by this author. MT he story was well written, well placed and definitely worth reading.

[Michele bookloverforever · Rating 3 out of 5]

really simplistic political and characters' no depth, lacked nuance.