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The Executioner's Game [Mass Market Paperback]

Gary Hardwick (Author)
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December 27, 2005
An elite government assassin is sent to kill the man who trained him, only to find that his mission has been compromised and he is trapped in the deadliest game of all.

Luther Green is a government assassin. He is employed by E-1, an agency so secret, even the President is unaware of its activities. Luther was recruited from a military academy and plunged into a world where his only purpose was to eliminate America’s worst enemies. Luther’s mind and body were forged into a killing machine by Alex Deavers, a legendary agent who became Luther’s mentor and best friend in the agency.

When his training was complete, Luther was dispatched around the globe, racking up an impressive list of successful kills. After a decade of service, Luther is a deadly weapon whose former life is a faded memory.

Luther is called back to America for a special assignment. Kilmer Gray, the current Director of E-1, informs Luther that his old friend, Alex Deavers, has turned rogue agent while on assignment in Africa. Deavers has disappeared and is rumored to be insane.
Luther accepts the job of terminating his old friend.

Luther, and his TWA (Tech & Weapons Advisor), Marcellus Hampton, track Deavers to the U.S. Deavers proves a dangerous and elusive target leading Luther on a chase through the bowels of America’s inner cities, dropping clues which signal that all is not as it seems with the mission. Alex lures them into constant danger, testing Luther’s skill and loyalty at each turn.

Finally, Deavers leads Luther to the latter’s hometown, a place where Luther has not shown his face for over ten years. Suddenly, the game is compromised as Luther’s family and old friends are targeted by the rogue agent.

Luther captures Deavers, but now he cannot terminate him, not until he discovers why his old friend turned rogue and what actually happened in Africa. When Luther discovers the truth, he realizes that he was marked for death from the start and must now turn rogue agent himself or face elimination.

Luther discovers a secret spanning a half century, involving billions of dollars and costing millions of innocent lives. Luther summons all of his skill and turns it against the agency which created him. In the climatic battle, Luther topples E-1, humbles a President and rediscovers the man who was turned into a killer.
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Hardwick, a veteran film and television producer, screenwriter and director who also writes books (Color of Justice), has a moderately interesting story to tell in this political thriller about an African-American assassin working for an elite government intelligence agency with ties to the CIA. But despite his publisher's attempts to promote him as the black Elmore Leonard, Hardwick's prose isn't really up to the job, making even the more exciting scenes hard going. What he does share with Leonard is the ability to quickly capture the hard edge of Detroit street and crime life, as his lead character Luther Green uses what he learned growing up in that Michigan city to track down the man who hired and mentored him. Alex Deavers is now suspected of killing a U.S. senator on a fact-finding trip to AIDS-ravaged Africa, and the head of Luther's agency wants him dead. Despite his doubts about his friend's guilt, Green follows orders and sets off after Deavers. Few readers will be surprised to discover that they soon share these doubts, which increase with every twist of Hardwick's plot. A rewrite—or some better editing—could have made this a winner.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTorch (December 27, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060575859
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060575854
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,889,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Gary Hardwick is an author, screenwriter and award-winning director of The Brothers and Deliver Us From Eva. He lives in Southern California.

 

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Hardwick, February 2, 2005
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This review is from: The Executioner's Game (Hardcover)
While Gary Hardwick is better known for his police thrillers, this book is a nice change of pace. It explores the area of espionnage with a twist.

I love Hardwick's down to earth and thoroughly readable style of writing. I am not a huge fan of espionnage books, but Hardwick made me literally devour this book. He writes humble and human characters and his plots are always a whodunnit til the end.

I still prefer to read Hardwick's police stuff, but this book was a nice change of pace.

Great, great.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This spy-thriller won't disappoint!, December 5, 2004
This review is from: The Executioner's Game (Hardcover)
Gary Hardwick fans won't be disappointed with his latest, The Executioner's Game. Using select rules from his main character's E-1 Operations Missions Manual, Hardwick sets a riveting stage for readers to be fully immersed into a well written spy-thriller that not only entertains, but stimulates thoughts about race and crime of the inner city and how the two are perceived by law enforcement. This novel clearly establishes Hardwick as a daring storyteller with the kind of verve and energy that will keep old fans wanting more and new
fans seeking out his other works. A great read to kick off the New Year (due to be released on or before January 1, 2005)!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So Cool To Be So Cold, July 19, 2005
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BnHereB4 (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Executioner's Game (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed the characters in this journey of the governmental backwashers. The storyline and premise are fictional--or are they? The secretive governmental assassin program is purely fictional--right? And what about the conspiracy in the Motherland that describes events 1,000 times worse than Hitler's genocide; that is pure fiction--isn't it? Let me put it like this, if the author of this book is NOT under governmental surveilance,well......

The main character is a cold, calculating, patriotic governmental assassin who is 100% willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING and EVERYONE to complete his mission; that is, until he starts to uncover truths left by his "rogue" mentor that are beginning to make him analyze his loyalty and the government "brass" issuing the missions.

It's non-stop action from beginning to end! I highly recommend this author's work. He has the ability to transport you into the scenery and have your pulse quickening thru-out the action scenes. It's not too long or too short. He don't waste pages and pages of reduntant backstory stuff; gives U just enough to keep it rollin'.

If you enjoy suspense, conspiracy, assassins, honor and code type of stories, U better add this one to your collection mannnn!!

--BnHereB4
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