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Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 18 ottobre 2016

Un assassino senza scrupoli, ma con un'anima.
I personaggi sono ben costruiti, la trama è credibile, libro ben scritto, godibile.

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Lettore Curioso

Waiting for the 5th book

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 20 marzo 2015

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Wonderful book, like all the previous books on Victor, some I read in Italian, some in English. Mr Wood, please keep writing...

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Mary K

Good pacy book!

Recensito in Germania 🇩🇪 il 20 febbraio 2023

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Good pacy writing and makes me want to keep reading. A bit more violent than Reacher books but all in all a good action read.

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georgeboy

Pulls you right in

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 8 dicembre 2022

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Loved story, character and got pulled in straight away for the adventure. Purchased the first book then the whole series , total addictive . Up there with All the solo anti hero characters by both uk and American storytellers

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sasseka

Wieder einmal voll ins Schwarze getroffen!

Recensito in Germania 🇩🇪 il 15 aprile 2014

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So langsam wird es mir unheimlich! So wie auch Bücher 1-3 trifft #4 total meinen Lesegeschmack!

There’s nothing worse than not being able to say no to someone or something. Hold on. Maybe there is. Realizing you want to and don’t want to say no at the same time; knowing full well things will get messy and any prior worst –case scenarios will surely seem like a walk in the park. Oh joy! Victor’s answer is yes nonetheless. Fortunately, he isn’t one to dwell on decisions made and instead, focuses all his considerable talent and skills on completing his latest…obligation.

Painstakingly accurate. Clinical. Free of emotion. Deadly.
Victor hasn’t lost his touch in the slightest, but he’s definitely out of his element this time around. No assassin “without a past” likes to be slapped in the face with the very past that wasn’t supposed to exist. Well, at least Victor would’ve preferred not to be reminded of a certain betrayal. Of course these circumstances were exactly what made Better Off Dead a great read.

Pretty much right off the bat it felt like Wood used a different approach to plan/develop the storyline as a whole. I could be completely wrong, but that’s the impression I got. The plot or rather the conflict was easily grasped if not to say basic in nature. A really good choice in this case, if you ask me! Why? Here goes: Not once was I confused about what Victor was supposed to do (looking at the big picture) and that’s exactly what paved the way for a more personal approach; personal because of Victor’s reasons to grant a favor in the first place, personal because said favor required quite a bit of rethinking in terms of not being the aggressor and simply executing a kill, but protecting another human being. Victor doesn’t protect and Victor certainly isn’t used to being considerate of someone. A challenge he had to face on top of trying to solve the problem - preferably by keeping his charge and himself alive (it was also refreshing to see Victor “miss a step” for lack of a better word; maybe especially so because he is not in the habit of repeating his mistakes).

So when I call the conflict in itself “basic” / "straightforward" (the surprises unraveled as I read along) what I mean is it provided the necessary wiggle room to let the “unfamiliar” play out the way it needed to. And boy did it play out. Fear not, Victor didn’t lose his ruthlessness - cross double-tap (to) my heart.
It wasn’t an easy task for my favorite assassin to accomplish and thankfully so because I was looking forward to my action-fix. Got it and then some! I could go on and on about the thrill, the bad “guy”, the incredible movie-like fighting, but I won’t. I’ve said it all before in my other reviews. It ALL goes for Better Off Dead as well. I’m raising my hat to Wood.

As for the writing (syntax, variety, pace and so on), I have to say that it’s probably Wood’s best work to date. Smooth-flowing and well-structured and I literally not once had to reread a paragraph or stumbled over a word / phrasing that should’ve been avoided. Not. once.
New editing process? New editor? I have no idea, but the positive result stood out although I honestly didn’t have anything major (or at all ;-)) to complain about with the other books either.

Fantastic job! My favorite part? I have many to choose from, but if I had to pick just a one…how beginning and end fit together so brilliantly.
Whew, I’m a bit rusty…haven’t written a review in quite a while.
Can you guess my rating, my fellow thrill-seekers? [* für Amazon natürlich angegeben; 5 Sterne.]

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David

None stop action

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 23 ottobre 2022

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Victor is OCD with his type of work and necessarily so in this story with an excellent hit team of mercenaries chasing him. It seems he has an impossible task on hishands. But he is very much a tough man winning against adversity. But he will never escape from his own personality prison and let people in. Particularly the wonderful character he has been tasked with keeping alive. A very good unputdownanble read. 😀

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Rellim

Love this series!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 29 aprile 2021

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I’m still reeling from that ending. AHHHHHH!!!!

No Tomorrow is book 4 in Tom Wood’s Victor the Assassin series. It absolutely stands on it’s own – but characters that were introduced in earlier books reemerge here.

I’m adding Wood to my list of authors that write strong, intelligent, and capable women characters. It showed in previous books but here he gives us two and they are present for almost the entire book. The first is Gisele who needs protecting, but has a sharp mind and learns quickly. She is independent and fierce, yet rightfully terrified at her circumstances. I adore how she keeps Victor on his toes. The second is one of the antagonists who also shows why she is at the top of her profession. Who is the cat and who is the mouse? Brilliant writing.

I also continue to love that everything is not perfect for Victor and that I’m surprised by where the story and action scenes take me. There’s at least 5 more books (A Quiet Man was just released) so I know Victor survives – but I genuinely feel the peril and sometimes wondered how on earth he would make his way out of the situations. Not without a few more scars…

The ending was a wonderful surprise. It also leaves no clue as to where Victor is headed in The Darkest Day but I have it cued up and am ready to keep following his missions.

Narration:
Rob Shapiro. Oh man. It’s truly amazing when I feel myself leaning in to be part of a hushed conversation and jumping with excitement along with a character. Love it!

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Earwicker

More delicious mayhem from our favourite assassin but a bit incredible

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 25 aprile 2014

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If you enjoyed the preceding Victor the Assassin novels then you'll certainly like this one. The world's premier assassin is in good form, and the action is gripping and hugely entertaining right from the outset. I won't go into any details that might spoil it for you if you plan to read it, but I'll just mention of couple of gripes. First of all, I re-read The Hunter the other day while I was on holiday, which confirmed an impression that there's a slight lack of consistency in Victor's character that causes this latest novel to just lack that little extra depth that might've lifted it up a level. I know this is hard to do since we're not supposed to know much about him, but the central plot ends up being hung on what comes across as a highly implausible decision on Victor's part to protect some villain's daughter because he apparently liked (loved?) her mother... and he even declines a fee and pays for it all himself. Eh?! Come again?? There were times when I was a bit worried our hero might start exploring his sensitive side, but thankfully, once the author had got the somewhat astonishing bit of plot out of the way, the weird bit that gives him a story to write, the action and denouement are exciting and generally well penned. (Note though there're a good few typos in the Kindle version - Amazon, how about a system for reporting them?) Anyway, I don't want to end on a negative - it's another very welcome and exciting ride from a talented thriller writer, and I'm looking forward to more from Victor. I'd just like to see his character developed a bit more robustly and made a little touch more real - it's not a mile out, but he could just be brought into slighter sharper focus, which'd make the series one of the best out there.

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Amazon Customer

A 5 Star except for a glaring, out of character action.

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 14 marzo 2019

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Victor the Assassin series is excellent. If you like Eisler's John Rain books you should like these as well.

Book four is good and I was rocking along when Victor makes a jolting mistake, totally out of character for this Super Careful/OCD protagonist. He drops the evil mastermind's top henchman with three shots to the chest. He could/should/would finish of this guy with a head shot. Of course he would. No one is around, nothing compels him to run away. Two seconds for a head double tap. But nooooo. He does not notice there is no blood (body armor). He does not take the precaution even you and I would take. He walks away and shortly thereafter the evil henchman is back on his trail.

Just could not get past this idiotic, totally out of character boo-boo. Victor the assassin later follows this up with the lesser error of giving his only weapon, a knife, to his brave, but combat incompetent, companion. Then, suffering from a severe previous beating, Victor takes on the bad guys with his martial arts. That too just did not make sense.

It was like watching the movie when the good guys are running away from the bad guys and someone trips over his/her own feet. Just too contrived and fakey. So - 4 stars.

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Liz Barnsley

My favourite current Thriller series.

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 1 marzo 2015

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Oh I do love a bit of Victor. My favourite fictional anti-hero in a lot of ways, I never fail to enjoy these, this series is probably the most satisfying thriller series out there at the moment.

Anyway we are onto book 4 already, in this instalment Victor turns from death to life in an attempt to protect the daughter of an old “friend” – not really Victor’s thing but hey, needs must and all that and he does have his own peculiarly ingrained sense of honour and rather eclectic loyalties – all of which help to make him as fascinating as he is.

As ever terrifically well constructed and a real rollercoaster read, Victor has his work cut out for him here, facing enemies old and new and trying to stay one step ahead of the game. I do love how Tom Wood manages to portray Victor as both completely free of emotion whilst at the same time chock full of the stuff – he is a great yin v yang of a character who will utterly engage you to the point that it often doesnt matter what is going on around him.

This particular story had a most satisfying start and an ending that made me quietly smile, the main portion in the middle is brilliantly paced and genuinely earns its “Thriller” tag and I enjoyed it just as much, if not more, than I have all the others.

Highly Recommended for Thriller fans. (Start with The Hunter if this is your first foray into these)

Happy Reading Folks!

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