To Kill a Devil

Mason Collins #4

by John A. Connell

1946 Vienna. When a shadowy organization fails to assassinate Mason Collins, they go after his colleagues, his friends, and the love of his life. Mason knows the only way to stop the killings is to cut off the head of the snake.

Armed only with the alias, Valerius, Mason treks across Franco’s Spain to war-torn Vienna to eliminate the man ordering the hits. But tracking him down seems to be an unsurmountable task; everyone speaks his name with awe and fear, but no one knows if he’s real or a gangland myth.

Mason, desperate for answers, abandons his strict moral code, leading him down a very dark path, and to succeed in hunting one devil, he makes a pact with another.

But what Mason doesn’t know is that, even if he does find his way in the darkness, the man they call Valerius has something special in store for him.

To Kill a Devil brings post-World War Two Vienna to life in vivid detail, and if your tastes include a hero who is one part Harry Bosch and one part Jack Reacher, then you’ll love this noirish tale of intrigue and revenge.

298 pages, ebook

Published January 31, 2020

About the author

John was born in Atlanta, where he earned a BA in Anthropology, and has been a motion picture camera operator, a jazz pianist, a stock boy in a brassiere factory, a machinist, repairer of newspaper racks, and a printing-press operator. His first in the Mason Collins series was nominated for Barry Award, and Where the Wicked Tread has been nominated for Best E-book 2022 by ITW. The series has also received endorsements from the likes of Lee Child and Steve Berry. He and his wife divide their time between the U.S. and France.

Reviews

[Rod]

Fourth in the series. Mason keeps getting the snot beat out of him more each book. He makes another new friend who is his sidekick. Not sure why the bad guy who is all powerful didn’t kill him in prison instead of wasting political capital to spring him and then kill him.
But it was a good vaca read. I do like reading about how it was like there post war.

[Bill Peters]

Excellent series

Excellent series of books, well rounded characters and storyline, well written, well worth the effort, highly recommended, one to follow

[Lewis]

Mason Collins

A good read with plenty of action with a quick pace,This is the fifth Masons crime thriller and all have been good

[Dinesh Raghavan]

3.5*

[Rob Cohen]

Not as good as the previous books. Not compelling enough for me, no real mystery, and little suspense. But I really like Mason Collins and will keep reading!

[Denny]

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