The Perfect Assassin by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
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The Perfect Assassin
- A Doc Savage Thriller
- By: James Patterson, Brian Sitts
- Narrated by: Joshua Kane, Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Series: Doc Savage Thriller, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Publisher’s Summary
Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling…as the perfect assassin.
Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor.
Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen, and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been. To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew : Do right to all, and wrong to no one.
©2022 James Patterson and Brian Sitts (P)2022 Grand Central Publishing
Greyhorse
So far, One of the best
I have not been impressed by most of JPs co-author but my interest is back with Brian Sitts. I hope these duo will continue to write further sequels. The readers like me are quite lost during the first few chapters but as the plot thickens, I started to like the villain (Meed) and “poor unfortunate and helpless fella, mister professor Savage. Introspectively, I look at myself as also that aging guy sitting most of my day in front of my computer, lacking in exercise and very much helpless except for my shrilling shout if I get abducted. I wish I have that same formula that Meed had injected to him so I can also rev up my adrenaline to “just do it” and have a makeover of my physique.
What reminds me of that training camp is the Meadows in Hanna (the Amazon TV series} where girls are programmed to train but cannot escape the facility or else. It is nice that there are two plots dovetailing the story so we can understand where Meed is coming from. Maybe in the next episodes, the authors would tell us where Meed’s fortunes are coming from. Her wealth appears to be bottomless but how can it be possible. With her persistence to train the professor, he is just one lucky dude that he was able to morph into a killing machine despite his ingratitude to her.
Again, I enjoyed listening to this book and I like the choice of the readers Joshua and the monotonic but seductive voice of Suzanne
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