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anna maria

Kill dir me

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 17 aprile 2019

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Ultima avventura di Victor, l' assassino creato da wood, questo libro è come gli altri pieno di azione ed adrenalina, la trama è interessante ma non mi ha convinto fino in fondo. Forse l' autore dovrebbe pensare a cambiare qualcosa...voto 7.

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riccardo63

Another great story with Victor

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 8 settembre 2018

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I love every book about Victor the killer.
I can easily read it in English because Tom wood write so clearly that is easy and I can't wait for the Italian edition. This one was just great with a new female character that I suspect will appear again in the next book. Although Raven was the top! I want her back Tom :-)

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Another great Victor book

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 11 marzo 2023

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Absolutely gripping and entertaining! The writing and plots keep getting better with each book. Looking forward to the next one.

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daveymacstar

Great read

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 7 marzo 2023

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Once again Tom wood does it

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Helen Crossland

Buy it or borrow it, kill for it if you have to, but read this one!

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 20 ottobre 2018

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I don't normally write reviews, but I have a confession to make... I'm a book addict who's in love with Victor, and Tom Wood is one of my favourite writers. So I just couldn't not write a review.

I will skip the description bit, you can read that in the blurb, and just get straight to the point. I loved it! But this is not enough to make you log into your Amazon account or run to the nearest bookstore and buy it, is it now? Although you should. Trust me when I say it, any and all of Tom Wood's books are a must-read if you enjoy crime thrillers written exceptionally well and with enough twists and turns to make you want to call in sick to work just to finish the book. And Kill For Me is no exception. It's hard to put down. If you're familiar with this series you love Victor just as much as I do and already know you have to read this one too. If you're not, however, here's a bit about the most dangerous and highly addictive assassin in the whole world: you can hire him if you need to kill someone (although you might not afford him unless you're the CIA or the patron of Guatemala's largest cartel), he's super intelligent, more lethal than a battalion of pissed-off marines, you see everything he sees in great detail and understand every decision he makes to the point where you feel like you're the one fighting and killing all those bad guys. Reading the books in the series in order lets you get to know Victor really well and you know for a fact that he's not the one to allow himself... feelings. Of any kind. Untill now. In comes the sassy and sexy DEA special agent Joanna Alamaeda, and Victor... well, I'll let you discover what Victor does, I don't want to spoil it for you. I just want to say this: I liked this twist in the plot. :)

Of course there are other characters in the book and not just Victor. The ruthless Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, who rules through fear and hates her sister so much that she hires Victor to kill her; sicarios, thugs and other bad guys who want Victor dead for one reason or another, but only manage to get themselves killed by him. There's non-stop action, twists and turns, fighting and killing, lots of planning too, and enough intrigue to keep you hooked the whole time. The writing is beautiful, Tom Wood is a great storyteller, the characters are complex and everything flows naturally. The setting is exotic and you can't help but feel the heat and humidity in Guatemala city, along with the hardships and violence people have to deal with on a regular basis there.

What more can I say without revealing too much? Just this: buy it or borrow it, kill for it if you have to ;), but read this one!
Diane

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bruce mardon

Almost a 5 star... here’s why.

Recensito negli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 il 4 dicembre 2018

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I find the whole Victor series refreshing in that Tom Wood doesn’t make Victor too likable. He is after all an assassin. This book really shows you the dark and merciless traits a professional killer needs to cultivate in order to continue doing what he does. Some may find him too heartless, I find him believable for that very reason. In my opinion, a good character has to be a believable character and Tom Wood has created that in Victor. It’s impressive that he has been able to create someone that the reader doesn’t really get to know without making him empty, you get just enough to keep you interested, but not too much to make you think you have him figured out.

The pace of the book is great, the twists are well placed and often unexpected. I would have given it a 5, but I feel like it lacked slightly in drawing me in to the scenes... I felt they weren’t given enough breadth, I wish Tom would have given me a bit more to work with, painted a clearer and more colorful backdrop on which the story was told. It felt a bit like watching a movie filmed completely on a close up lens.

I usually dont like it when an author writes in irrelevant information, but in this case he didn’t include enough “extra stuff” to justify the time span of the book, almost as if he had written a book twice as long and then edited out anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary. The story spanned many weeks, but didn’t feel like it needed to. I would have preferred a book that gave me less scenes but more description. With words you aren’t bound to time, so freeze it every now and then and unpack the moment for me. I hate to use the Jack Reacher books as a comparison (different styles), but they feel both expansive and detailed in almost every scene. You always know where Jack Reacher has been, what he has done and where he is going. The scenes don’t start and end abruptly, but rather blend together in a cohesive flow. Lee Child is a master of inviting you not only into Reacher’s external world, but his internal world too, which makes you feel close to the story. In this book you are transported from one important scene to the next without much of a glimpse into the everyday life of an assassin. A bit too much In and out.

That being said, I love the characters, I love the action and I love the story as a whole.

An enjoyable read.

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georgeboy

Great story

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 8 dicembre 2022

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Great adventure , your on the side of Victor, even though he's a hired assassin. Only the bad guys&girls get erased and the character has morals regarding collateral damage

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healthysean

As Usual Another Gripping Thriller From This Great Character

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 27 agosto 2018

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The latest story from Tom Wood and his great character Victor The Assassin.

Freed from previous employers the CIA and MI6, Victor is a killer for-hire whose sense of self-preservation trumps all else. Yet as betrayal and counter-betrayal unspool in the vicious family feud, Victor finds himself at the centre of a storm even he could be powerless to stop.

Lethal assassin Victor lands in the middle of a Guatemalan cartel war in the latest nonstop thriller from the international bestselling author of The Final Hour. KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE...

Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition: her sister. Heloise has been battling Maria for control of the cartel in an endless and bloody war. Now Victor decides who survives. An easy job if it weren't for the sudden target on his back. ...AND THEIR ENEMIES CLOSER.

Victor's not the only one on the hunt. Someone else has Maria in the crosshairs and will do anything to get the kill. In the middle of cartel territory with enemies closing in from all sides, Victor must decide where to put the bullet before one is placed in his head....

The advantage of reading the whole series in order is you get to know Victor and I cannot help but like his character, love the character. Tom Wood has the perfect character and personality and creates a great story, with two nasty sisters, another assassin on the loose, a great sassy DEA Officer as well as some nasty cartel nasties.

Slower in pace to some of his previous novels due to the detail of the planning, but the strength is the story and how it builds to a very clever and complex and fast paced ending.

Maybe I am biased as I just love the character, but as usual for a Tom Wood book. Five stars

This author is a favourite of my book club "A Good Thriller" on goodreads.com

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Thrawn95

“You never know how brave you are until you’re scared.”

Recensito in Germania 🇩🇪 il 26 luglio 2018

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Tom Wood has never been one to repeat himself and his newest Victor thriller is no exception. While KILL FOR ME doubles down on the beloved ingredients of Wood’s previous works – there are more heart-stopping action scenes, unpredictable plot twists and fascinating insights into Victor’s mindset than ever before – it also takes Victor’s character arc into uncharted, exiting territory, which makes for a fantastic reading experience.

KILL FOR ME finds Victor trapped between a rock and a hard place. Just freed from his previous employers and presumed dead by the rest of the world, he has found a new appeal in life and therefore is willing to try out new things – like a dose of pretended normalcy for instance. This however, has the potential to further complicate Victor’s life, when the contract he accepts proves to be one of the most challenging of his career…

The book feels like a Tarantino western in many ways; the violence has a bloody, visceral splendor to it and most of the characters involved, are utterly despicable human beings. Also, the setting of Guatemala City fits the story perfectly. Wood’s descriptions are so vivid that you can literally feel the humidity when Victor walks through a sunbaked side street. The terrain also comes with its own unique trappings for Victor, who, as a foreigner, stands out in Central America like a sore thumb, despite his best efforts.

The action is fast and brutal and once the betrayals and counter-betrayals unspool and the body count rises by the hour, it becomes increasingly clear that Victor might not be able to walk away with his head still attached to his shoulders. The most fascinating aspect of the eighth Victor novel however, is the evolution of its main character. Tom Wood artfully walks the tightrope of widening some cracks in Victor’s emotional armour, without taking away his unique edge. As a result, the emotional payoff is immensely rewarding for long-time readers.

To put it in a nutshell: You have never seen Victor so vulnerable emotionally, nor so capable professionally. Like his creator, Victor is at the very top of his game and the resulting inferno makes for one of the best thrillers I’ve read in a long time. So don’t miss out on this masterpiece!

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Sceptic a la M. Teste

First Class with some new touches from an author growing into his peak

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 17 febbraio 2019

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This is the finest in the Victor series so far. Tom Wood is expanding the range of his writing. Alongside the story of Victor's exploits, we are given an overview of the narcotics trade in South America, two frightening psychopaths worthy of Thomas Harris (and I do not mean Victor as one of these!), and some interesting factual information which goes well beyond guns and ballistics. For instance, advances in plastic shrink wrapping have an impact on how small cartels can make packages of money and drugs for transportation and new machinery is bought up eagerly for this purpose to increase efficiency and reduce losses - real or made up, a quite fascinating idea!

This novel also has a more intricate plot than in previous Victor iterations. Victor's past is revealed (softly softly very little at a time....) and he lightens up in some passages wherein there is considerable humour. These passages alternate with the main plot line which, as usual, is Victor carrying out a commission. However, the book also devotes time to a wider cast of characters and their lives and all of this manages to contribute to the overall plot line.

One has to go back to Ian Fleming for this level of skill - although Gregg Hurwitz in the Orphan X books is up there too. Tom Wood has added depth to his writing and the depiction of the two psychopaths noted above are chilling, believable and although they may owe something to Thomas Harris the depictions demonstrate increasing skill in the craft of writing. One could go out on a limb - this is an existential thriller, yet at the same time it is entertaining from start to finish. Tnis is no mean feat!

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