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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 (638 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 725,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Action sequences are TIPSY WITH TESTOSTERONE."--"The New York Times"
"A story that's AS CURRENT AS TOMORROW'S HEADLINES."--"Mobile Press-Register"
"A HIGH-STAKES THRILLER..."The Kill List" is intense to the very end."--"Midwest Book Review"
"Forsyth's new thriller proves he has lost none of his powers...[He] remains THE MASTER OF HIS TRADE."--"Daily Express "(UK)

Action sequences are TIPSY WITH TESTOSTERONE. "The New York Times"
A story that s AS CURRENT AS TOMORROW S HEADLINES. "Mobile Press-Register"
A HIGH-STAKES THRILLER "The Kill List" is intense to the very end. "Midwest Book Review"
Forsyth s new thriller proves he has lost none of his powers [He] remains THE MASTER OF HIS TRADE. "Daily Express "(UK)" --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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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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4.0 out of 5 starsMarines, Pathfinders and hackers, oh my...
By Culleton on 17 Feb. 2014
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
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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2.0 out of 5 starsLike a new Rolling Stones record: you more or less get what you expect; it's not that bad; but it's not that memorable
By tpryan on 9 July 2014
Format: Paperback
Like a new Rolling Stones record: you more or less get what you expect, it's not that bad, but it's not that memorable.

As an early teenager one of the first novels I read was the Odessa File. I was captivated by the style, seemingly insider knowledge and pace of the story. Forty years later some of those trademarks are still there - like well-rehearsed guitar riffs - the enemy has moved, this time to the present and Somalia, and the story is engaging enough.

But just how much demand is there for yet more description of covert intelligence agencies within agencies, military aircraft and equipment populated by characters so perfect they can only be cut from cardboard. These people have no real lives, no real relationships, there's not even the 'flawed copper' character that pops up in crime genres, for example, and can give the lead a bit of a human touch

So it all becomes pretty tedious really. I persevered to the end but found Private Eye's parody of this pretty spot on. After reading not too many pages about the Preacher and the Tracker you the Reader, have become the Sleeper. Like the Stones and Monty Python, Forsyth's best is way back in the past.
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2.0 out of 5 starsAbsurd
By W. Stephens on 3 Aug. 2014
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
Is this really the same author as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc?!?! - Difficult to believe.

The writing is very bland and pedestrian.
Worse still is the utter piece of stupidity in the plot. Specifically, the plot is well up and running, USA specialist on the trail of an Al Quaeda operative inciting people to kill public figures.
The body count is very low, perhaps half a dozen in the USA (since these are individual assassinations) by 40% of the way through the book. Thus is it utterly absurd that the father of the USA specialist happens to be killed, as an innocent bystander to one of the killings. I.e. out of 6 or 8 people out of the entire population of the USA, this father just happens to be randomly killed. All of which adds absolutely ZERO to the plot, other than the fact that it is now 'personal' for the USA specialist. What utter garbage!!!

I enjoyed the well researched info' on the organisation and operations of the intelligence and spec-ops agencies, and for that reason alone I give it 2 stars (even though I was unable to continue reading after having my intelligence insulted by the above-mentioned absurdity).
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