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The Accident Man

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The journalist writing under the pseudonym Tom Cain has done a remarkable job of keeping a really fast pace non stop action thriller for the first half of the book. This half of the book is really impressively written, I can't remember ever reading a book that has been able to maintain that pace for so many pages, and its high quality writing too, it's brilliant. The quality does start to drop a little bit in the second half, as does the pace of the storyline, along with the believability factor of the main character Samuel Carver who seems to be able to pull out all kinds of hidden skills. The final chapters were a big disappointment with characters not keeping to what they've been throughout the former chapters, especially Samuel who seems to have forgotten all his training to get himself in the predicament he is for the final 70 pages or so. A lot of convenient things also have to happen for these final pages storyline to work. It's still an enjoyable read but it's a pity the quality of the first half is not there for the final scenes.

Accident Man is follows Samuel Carver a hit man who enjoys what he is good at, killing terrorists, drug cartel leaders and other deserving of death villains. His latest task is to take out a high ranking terrorist's Mercedes in a Paris road tunnel which he pulls of smoothly. Problem is he has been made a target himself and barely escapes a hit on himself. Sam pretty quickly learns his victim was not a terrorist at all but instead one of the world's most loved and kind people. He puts two and two together that he is being set up and was never supposed to be around to expose the death as nothing more than an accident. The only ally he has is a beautiful young Russian woman named Alix who is in the same boat as him but sometimes a beautiful woman can make you drop your guard.

Cain could have put a bit more work into the final chapters but if you are after a fast read The Accident Man won't disappoint. I'll definitely read his or her next book.