What do You think about The Perfect Assassin (2008)?
This is an older book, I believe published in 2008, but the story rings true today. It's well written with a great plot and a really interesting lead character. The book has plenty of action and the relationship of the two main characters, while predictable, is still interesting, especially their initial meeting.My only warning is that the early part of the book is best read in large sections as the plot is a little complex and more difficult to follow if you only read one chapter at a time.The most similar book/characters I have read is the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. A follow-up to the book came out last year, and I am currently reading it.
—Duff Young
How does stuff like this get published? The Perfect Assassin is anything but: (view spoiler)[he tells just about everyone who he is and what he does, he falls in love and transgresses all personal boundaries he's trained not to cross, he's unable to control his sex drive, because, well, sex sells and so does having a love interest who has Munchhausen and who you've kidnapped and threatened to kill multiple times... (hide spoiler)]
—Ioana
Soon to be a Dr. a young woman is sailing her fathers boat back to the US from Europe. She runs into a patch of wreckage and sees a man clinging to a cooler and manages to get him on the boat. He is cold and wounded and she patches him up only to have him demand to take to the coast of England. When they reach the coast he disables the boat and rows ashore. The woman gets the boat into the nearest harbor and arranges to have it repaired and finds a hotel. She is surprised be a couple "investigators" who begin to question her, but she suspects that they are not what they seem and as things start to get dangerous, her former passenger appears and after taking care of the pair convinces her that her life is in danger and they leave the hotel. She now finds herself in the middle of an international conspiracy and of a manhunt for her passenger. A good read with plenty of action to keep the story moving along.
—Bob
