Review: Not Russell Blake's Best
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
Hmm . . .  The synopsis of this book sounded really great.  I was eager to read it.  However, I was frankly bored through the first half of the book.  I was almost half way through before I knew enough about Cruz to care about him.  It was even a little more than half way through before I was really interested at all in the assassin.  There is great potential here, but it fell a little flat.  This is not a thriller.  There just isn't enough life threatening action in it to classify, in my mind, as a true thriller.  And the big assassination plot ended up falling pretty flat for me.  Perhaps this is really meant to setup the following books.  If so, the reader has to be really invested to read through this book with the intent to read the others.  And the others would have to be significantly better than this one.  But how would you know that without taking the time to read them, with the potential to be disappointed?  A dilemma!  At least for me.  So, not sure I would recommend this book or the series based on having read this book.