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Listening Length: 11 hours and 24 minutes

Program Type: Audiobook

Version: Unabridged

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Audible.com Release Date: November 20, 2009

Whispersync for Voice: Ready

Language: English, English

ASIN: B002Y2Q9AW

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THE TEASERA teaser is a loathsome literary device to snag bookstore readers with up-front action, albeit out of context. In "The Mark of the Assassin" an unnamed man, woman, and 16 year-old boy are infiltrated by the KGB into Austria from Czechoslovakia in 1968. The boy shots his companions.THE SETUPTerrorist Hassam Malmud (aka Abu Jihad) and "Yasim" (aka "the boy", aka Jean Paul Delaroche, aka October) pilot a yacht to off Long Island. Hassam shots down an American Airliner with a stinger missile. Hassam is murdered by "Yasim", who is extracted by a helicopter, and the yacht blows up. The attack is actually financed by an American arms dealer (with the substantial support of a "SPECTRE"-like cartel of individuals [including the chief of the Mossad] who desire to promote world instability). The attack is blamed on "The Sword of Gaza" which is actually innocent in this case. The good-guy protagonist is CIA analyst Michael Osbourne.COMMENTSAfter the first several dozen named characters, I gave up writing down names and notes, and thereafter frequently had no idea who was speaking to whom nor why. It was just too much work to keep track of the numerous interchangeable secondary characters.Despite the numerous characters, none of them engaged me, and all of the potentially interesting characters are killed off after a few pages. Osbourne is the key "good guy", but his abysmal tastes and judgement in women put me off. The whining Elizabeth is particularly annoying--but she's the "good one".There is sort of a "critical mass" of implausibilities which are allowable in a novel before "suspension of disbelief" is strained too far. The "critical mass" depends on how engaging the novel is. I did not find any of the characters in "The Mark of the Assassin" to be engaging--I did not care what happened to them. So, I found myself deeply annoyed by many unnecessary implausibilities, and even cheering for Delaroche and his stupid girlfriend at times.It would take too long to catalog the serious implausibilities, so I'll just point out a few. It makes no sense that Delaroche was extracted from the yacht by a helicopter--which would be easily visible and tracked on radar. Besides, where did it take him? Presumably to another ship--in which case it would have been far more logical if Delaroche had reached the "other ship" by the Zodiac (inflatable boat) which is otherwise unnecessarily mentioned. Perhaps some idiot editor suggested that a helicopter would be more dramatic.For another example, the idiotic "signature" three-shots-to-the-face" is absurd for a professional assassin who has allegedly gone to insane lengths to remain "below-the-radar".Finally, being paid millions of dollars for a series of assassinations, such a person would have used some of the cash to contract trusted "support services". Instead, Delaroche implausibly depends on his employers to supply him with air travel, vehicles, etc.--giving them the opportunity to collect finger prints, DNA, photos, voice prints, etc. which they can use to track him down and assassinate him when the "jobs" are over. Remember that Delaroche is so paranoid that he murders his best friend, only because said best friend is the only person on earth who knows his true identity. Why is such a professionally paranoid suddenly so trusting of "employers" whose identity is not even known to him?On the good side, the author displays an excellent international vocabulary, using American terms in the U.S., British terms in England, and so forth.THE VERDICTAlmost as fundamentally absurd as a James Bond novel, but not as much fun. A good read if you find it easy to overlook the shortcomings described above.

While I am new to this writer, I am not new to his genre. I had read only one other book by this writer, "The Black Widow". I did a review of that book and headlined it as "scary". At that time I wasn't sure I wanted to read him any further. But...here I am.This was without question one of the best books, by any author, I have read. The plot line is superb. The rising action builds, subtly, to the anti climax, which explodes in your face. The characters, both protagonist and antagonist, are believable and well defined. The best mark I can give a book is to say that it grabbed me from page one and did not let me go until page last. This book fit that level of captivity to the tenth degree.Daniel Silva does his research so thoroughly that the story line comes out as a fact based read rather than as a work of fiction. I read a lot of counter terrorism and covert ops. This is some to the best stuff I've ever found.I expect to be reading this writer for some time. That he is so prolific only makes me more a fan.

Daniel Silva has become yet another spectacular spy/political thriller novelist that has been on the scene for years that I’m only now just discovering as I delve deeper and deeper into this genre…and in this excellent book, The Mark of the Assassin, I’m learning that I’m not even getting his best work; this novel is a very early effort (1998), with a character (CIA Case Worker Michael Osborne) that he’s already long since retired (following this work and a single follow-up). But if his “new” go-to creation, Gabriel Allon, and that continuing storyline is anything like what we experience here, then I’m sure to become a lifelong fan.With “Assassin,” Silva immediately impresses with high political intrigue, supreme action, heavy plot twists and, above all, superior literary skills…this novel takes off from the very start and is high octane throughout, exactly what one wants from a book like this. I knew this book and this author had struck a heavy chord when an extremely frustrating airport experience in Phoenix, which finally ended in two long delays and a resulting mechanical failure, was severely lessened when I was able to make major inroads into this plotline. THAT is the mark of a great novel in my mind!This work begins with the shoot-down of a U.S. passenger airliner over Long Island as it departs from Kennedy International. A stinger missile, launched from a small boat off of Montauk is quickly determined to be the cause, raising immediate terrorist concerns. The culprit’s body however is discovered with the launcher and three bullet holes in his head, only adding to the mystery. Our protagonist, CIA Case Officer Michael Osborne immediately recognizes this as the signature of a mysterious assassin ultimately known as October, clouding the terrorist view and setting the stage for our story.In parallel with this gruesome act, we’re slowly introduced to a subversive, secretive society involving the highest of the power players in Washington and the power elite, the huge money gambol that focuses specifically on the defense contracting world here, and all prior to a Presidential election. Leveraging this sad occurrence for popular support in Congress, incumbent President James Beckwith garners not only backing for a massive missile defense program (and sure defeat for his Democratic foe Andrew Sterling), but a huge increase in his popular opinion poll numbers.Weaving these two disparate paths into a brilliantly cohesive tale involving world politics and global geography (Silva is amazing at describing locales throughout Northern Europe, Washington D.C and Long Island), we watch as Osborne and October inevitably collide, learning that it was October who’d also tragically killed Osborne’s first love, a story that in and of itself that has deeper meaning as this plotline unfolds. Both men, we discover, have a much more introspective side and Silva spends much time exploring that, adding much depth to this storyline.The only minor quibble that I’d make with the book is that Silva seemed to go extremely overboard by establishing each character as a smoker…each scene had each character light up and light up again…it got to be almost distracting! I don’t know if he was trying to symbolize the spy/terrorist/underworld business as tension filled to the extent that only tobacco can be the salve but, man!! Even Osborne’s pregnant wife is jones-ing for a cigarette! I hope this dynamic disappears quickly from future works…Minor quibble aside, this is a fantastic work, full of all the nuances, action, intrigue and literary skills one wants from the spy/thriller genre. Daniel Silva obviously went on from this early work to become a major author and it is clear to see why…I am certainly looking forward to reading much more in his catalogue and if one is looking to see the birth of genius, The Mark Of The Assassin is an excellent place to start.

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