I enjoyed the plot and it was nice that the Team was split up so that we could focus on some of the more peripheral characters for a while. The Team goes to Bologna, Italy to track down and international assassin named T Rex. Unfortunately, the CIA has no idea what he looks like. While in Italy, the Team finds out about a desperately poor Russian biological-weapons researcher who thinks selling a deadly strain of E. Coli to an Iranian IRGC agent will make him richer. This nugget of intel takes the team to Naples, Rome, Lybia, and Sudan. The suspense in the last section really picked up. Lastly, the intrigue of revolving around the assassin T-Rex's identity was refreshing.However, it seemed that this book moved considerably slower than its predecessors. There seemed to me to be several unnecessary scenes that didn't move the plot forward. Likewise, the First Team's almost immediate empathy for one of the bad guys seemed quite out of place. The book seemed to me to end rather quickly - no-one seemed surprised or upset at the true identity of T-Rex. Also, at the end, why the hell do the Russian FSB agents arrest the Iranian agent who's trying to acquire the E. coli? Aren't Russia and Iran supposed to be allies?
What do You think about Soul Of The Assassin (2008)?
