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The Kill List Hardcover – 20 Aug 2013

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  • Hardcover: 332 pages
  • Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (20 Aug. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399165274
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399165276
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 2.8 x 23.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (616 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,037,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Full of insider technical detail, [The Kill List] packs the punch Forsyth's readers relish, complete with a breath-taking denouement in the desert that makes it impossible to put down...A master storyteller" (Geoffrey Wansell Daily Mail)

"I was gripped by the story of the lone assassin hired to kill President de Gaulle. I reread it last year and found it just as enthralling. It hadn't dated a bit. More than four decades later Forsyth's new thriller proves he has lost none of his powers. The prose, like the plot, is as taut and lean as ever. That reflects the journalist that first and foremost Forsyth has always been. So too does his unerringly topical eye." (Fergus Kelly Daily Express)

"THRILLER OF THE WEEK - A contemporary update on the theme of a deadly assassin closing in on an important target" (Mail on Sunday) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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'Full of insider technical detail, [The Kill List] packs the punch Forsyth's readers relish, complete with a breath-taking denouement in the desert that makes it impossible to put down ... A master storyteller.' (The Daily Mail)

'A contemporary update on the theme of a deadly assassin closing in on an important target.' (The Mail on Sunday)

'I was gripped by the story of the lone assassin hired to kill President de Gaulle. I reread it last year and found it just as enthralling. It hadn't dated a bit. More than four decades later Forsyth's new thriller proves he has lost none of his powers. The prose, like the plot, is as taut and lean as ever. That reflects the journalist that first and foremost Forsyth has always been. So too does his unerringly topical eye.' (The Daily Express) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 starsWay Below Par for Frederick Forsyth
By Orangutan on 24 May 2014
Format: Paperback
This is a very average book from a fantastic author. It's so much more mundane than his best books, you wonder how much effort actually went into this one - it feels like it was phoned-in for the cash. It's a linear story - very little character depth, very few plot turns, very predictable and very 2 dimensional. Despite the obvious research (as always) it does feel as though the basic plot is too contrived (the "Tracker" tasked with finding the "Preacher" just happens to have his dad killed by a jihadist whilst he's already on the case - "now it's personal!") There's also some rather big plot holes - we have an autistic teenager able to hack into any system in the world, and the way in which the Tracker discovers the real name of the Preacher is a real stretch - an Afghan villager happens to recognise the voice of the preacher speaking in English - 10 years after he last heard the man speaking in Pashto - and even though he doesn't speak English and doesn't see his face he "knows" it's the same person, really?

The plot itself is very formulaic - Good Man (the Tracker) tries to find the Bad Guy (the Preacher) - and apart from a brief diversion with a subplot about Somali pirates, that's pretty much it. They find him, follow him then kill him. No twists, nothing unexpected.

Obviously lots of people on Amazon disagree judging by the 4 and 5 star reviews - I guess all I can say is that if you think this is good you'll be absolutely blown away by his better books (Day of the Jackal, Odessia, Fist of God etc) which are so, so much better than this.

Overall a big disappointment.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 starsMarines, Pathfinders and hackers, oh my...
By Culleton on 17 Feb. 2014
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Remember Colonel Mike Martin - Forsyth's creation that appeared in The Fist of God and The Afghan? You know the one I mean - British paratrooper and SAS legend who was the star of both books? Yeah, you remember - the character that made you turn the page and keep on reading without putting the book down, especially in The Afghan. Well Frederick has come up with an American version - The Tracker.

In this book, we learn his name, and we learn his history, and he's an instantly likeable character. US Marine, Arab linguist/specialist etc etc, working for a secret CTU-style agency called TOSA (Technical Operations Support Agency), and his mission? Find and neutralise The Preacher - a new extreme terrorist who is shaping the wills of many to carry out atrocities in the UK and the USA.

Forsyth has delved once again into extremism after his break with The Cobra. And why not? It's current and is a good idea to give us a new bad guy to hate. After the death of Bin Laden I wondered if Frederick would delve back into this territory and produce an espionage tale with military might. But here we don't get a Seal Team Six - that would have been too obvious and cliche. Not even the SAS feature in this book. Instead, we get the Pathfinders. Bravo, I say. If you've never heard of the Pathfinders - read this book to find out more. They're not fictitious - they do exist in Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the real world, and here Forsyth gives us an ensemble cast of an Airborne team of British squaddies who get to ply their trade on foreign soil with the backing of the British PM and the President of the USA, proving that the Special Relationship has never been better.Read more ›
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific Thriller
By ACB(swansea) TOP 50 REVIEWER on 30 Oct. 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
An English speaking Islamic cleric is sending out internet sermons via an elaborate network radicalising Western Muslims into becoming hate-filled Jihadist assassins of high ranking officials followed by suicide. The villain is known as The Preacher. Unfortunately one of the kills is a retired Marine general. His son, Arabic speaking US Marine Officer Kit Carson, has been summoned by the President to head the quest to find the Preacher and demolish his followers. The Preacher tops the US Kill List. Carson is known as The Tracker. He has nothing tangible to go on and enlists the help of a young computer genius (Ariel) in his determination to find the Preacher. He provides him with the best available computer equipment that enables his mastery of the internet to scrutinise most parts of the world. The hunt is on.

This is a well-researched contemporary novel and full of technical and military detail. The battlefield now consists of both cyberspace and the desert with the Tracker later involving Human Intelligence, drone planes and other unconventional methods in his search. This is a pacey page-turning thriller and Forsyth still shows his mastery of the genre. It does not develop it's characters into fully 3-dimensional figures and the plot construction is taut and economical in its prose lacking its usual level of action, twists and turns. The ending has been criticised by some reviewers as being predictable leaving an unfinished impression. I did not personally find that.

This, despite a few flaws, is a compelling thriller of a terrorist cat and mouse chase and how they operate written by the undisputed expert, Frederick Forsyth completed long before the Jihadist attack in Nairobi. Entertaining, gripping and recommended.
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