Review: Bizarre read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
The Assassin Shall Prevail by Alex Burke is a surreal tale through the mind of ‘O’ on the day he wakes up and realizes that he is “the world’s greatest assassin” on the day he is supposed to perform his first assassination.  The tale is told on the edge between reality and dream.  I will admit, this story was difficult for me to get into at first because of the fact that it was hard to tell if what was going on.  Once I realized that a lot of the story takes place in ‘O’s thoughts it was much easier to follow.Alex Burke integrated many interesting characters in this story through funny dialogue.  Some characters were imaginary and some, like Nixon, Stalin, and Elvis were stolen from history.If you like fast paced action novels like those of James Rollins and Dan Brown then you may have difficulty getting into The Assassin Shall Prevail, but if like a book with a weird plot then it will be right up your alley.