Assassin [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141027975
• ISBN-13: 978-0141027975
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,410,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andrew Britton was born in Peterborough, England, in 1981. He spent his formative years in the UK and Camlough, County Armagh Ireland, a small village which is home to most of the family on his mother's side. In 1988, his family immigrated to the United States, taking up residence in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Just before his junior year of high school, Britton moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he currently resides.

Britton graduated from Leesville Road High School in 1999 and immediately joined the U.S. Army. He served as a combat engineer for three years. During that time, he was assigned to the 1st Engineer Battalion at Fort Riley, Kansas. In the summer of 2001, he received orders for Korea, where he served with the 2ID, the famed 2nd Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged as a specialist in 2002.

Less than two months after separating from the armed forces, Britton began taking classes at Wake Technical Community College, transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 2004. As an undergraduate at UNC, Britton studied economics and psychology. His education has been on hiatus for the past year, though he intends to return to school as soon as his schedule allows.

Apart from writing, Britton enjoys reading, traveling, and the occasional beer at the local bar.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars non-stop action thriller, March 3, 2007

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Assassin (Hardcover)

Ryan Kealey was written off by the American espionage agencies as yesterday's news, but they brought him back as the only person capable of defeating a protégé turned rogue killing machine. Though some died, he saved the lives of many world leaders (see THE AMERICAN). Now over a year has passed since he faced his mirror image and though a hero, he is classified once again as unusable though the brass honored his request to return to the fold.

The CIA learns from a reliable source Iran plans to bomb the United Nations just in time to influence the tight presidential election between the incumbent saddled with the Iraq war albatross and the popular Governor of California. However, whereas all American Intel tries to prevent the catastrophe from happening, Kealey thinks that a UN bombing is a red herring. He believes there will be a bigger target on a 9/11 scale though he is not sure what is intended with his worst nightmare being international terrorist and grandmaster criminal William Vanderveen is behind the horrific event; no one in any of the western intelligence agencies take his theory seriously except England's assistant chief, Naomi Kharmai.

THE ASSASSIN is a non-stop action thriller that never slows down from the opening moments in the White House and in Baghdad. Readers will wear seat belts as they come along for a ride that makes DC superhero The Flash look like the Turtle. Though characterizations are either thin or stereotyped including the lone star hero, fans of terrorist vas counterterrorist chess matches will want to read Andrew Britton's incredibly exhilarating novel.

Harriet Klausner

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Non-stop suspense, March 14, 2007

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Assassin (Hardcover)

The Assassin is "the best" of Tom Clancy, Michael Connelly, and Robert Ludlum all rolled into a single book. Fast paced, richly colored, characters to love, hate, and suspect, twists you don't see coming, and a compelling and entertaining story that makes you think.

The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister is nearly killed by bombs planted in the Babylon Hotel. Over 20 people, most of them American reporters, die in the explosion. And this after the American President has promised a withdrawal of troops.

Who are the killers and where are they? The situation needs to be dealt with--and quickly--the presidential election is mere months away.

In Washington, CIA's Deputy Director of Operations, Jonathan Harper, assists the president keep his promises and deal with Rachel Ford, a former congresswoman, long on the proper education and political maneuvering and short on experience.

A highly skilled but stressed CIA agent, Ryan Kealey, must separate fact from fiction, and friend from foe in Iraq, London, Germany, and other parts of the world. He must find those responsible for the bombing, and uncover the real plans--rather than the apparent ones the powerful are buying into. If he fails, the deaths of twenty people will be barely a footnote to the disaster that follows.

At age 24, Andrew Britton's second novel is rich in its descriptive quality and characterizations. As you read you find yourself wondering how much is fiction and how much parallels what's going on in our world today.

You'll be captivated by Ryan Kealey as he struggles with his demons, stays true to his mission, and deals with the inevitable obstacles thrown up by his enemies and his government.

Armchair Interviews says: The Assassin is a pageturner that uses fiction to help the reader confront the struggle between good and evil in our world today.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Action Packed Thriller!, February 4, 2008

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Melvin Hunt (Cleveland,, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Assassin (Hardcover)

This book picks up where "The American" left off. President Dave

Brenneman is locked in a struggle with California governor Richard Fiske.

The issue in the election is the Iraq war.Ryan Kealey returns in this book

as the hero. He is reunited with his partner Naomi Kharmai. They make the

discovery that William Vanderveen(jason March) is still alive. He has him a new partner Yasmin Raseen. She is a stone killer like him.Ryan and Naomi

discover a plan to cause death and destruction at the U.N. The former Vice

President of Iraq has initiated this plan as a method to return to power.

Kealey and Kharmai can get no one to believe them. They are running out of time to stop this catastrophe from happening. This book has an action packed ending.Be sure to read this book to see who wins the confrontation between Kealey and Vanderveen. A definite good book.