Review: Fast Paced Action
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
Another good action thriller from Mark Dawson. This offering takes John Milton, an on the run former assassin for the British government, to Ciudad Juarez. While working as a cook in a restaurant, Milton interferes in the attempted murder of two bloggers and a young girl telling her tale of surviving the drug cartel. While two of those are killed in the attack, Milton makes it his personal job to see that the third makes it out of Mexico alive.As with many good thrillers there are parallel plots involving an honest Juarez cop, a bounty hunter and Milton's former employers who are still trying to kill him.In The Cleaner, Dawson told the story of the poverty in London's East End. In Saint Death, Dawson weaves the factual disappearances of women that has plagued Juarez over the past few years into his tale.While reading The Cleaner is not really necessary to enjoy this novel, it does help the reader in understanding why British Intelligence is trying to capture/kill Milton.