Never Look Back: A Brilliant Russian Assassin. An Obsessed American Manhunter. And One Very Deadly Secret... [Mass Market Paperback]

Ridley Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1993

The cardinal rule of espionage: Never look back.

KGB agent "Dragonfly" knows it. A master of disguise, he's the ultimate terrorist, leaving headlines in his bloody path. Andrew Clayton forgot it. For eighteen inactive months, the hardnosed Security Intelligence agent has blamed himself for his brother's death at Dragonfly's hands. But now Dragonfly has surfaced in Canada, and Clayton knows he's got one last shot at revenge. What Clayton doesn't know is that Dragonfly is armed with the supreme biological weapon, set to release its toxic devastation should his mission be compromised. Stopping Dragonfly without triggering a major disaster will be deadly-if not impossible. But for Andrew Clayton, it's something that must be done...

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"Ridley Pearson is one hell of a writer. He grabs, he twists, he tightens the screws until you're drained." --Clive Cussler

"Breakneck action!" --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Ridley Pearson is the award-winning coauthor, along with Dave Barry, of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and Sword of Mercy, Escape from the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind, Blood Tide, and Science Fair. He has also written more than twenty best-selling crime novels, inlcuding Killer View and Killer Weekend, and the young adult fantasies Kingdom Keepers-Disney After Dark, Kingdom Keepers II-Disney at Dawn, and Kingdom Keepers III-Disney in Shadow. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (January 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312929757
• ISBN-13: 978-0312929756
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,206,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ridley Pearson (www.ridleypearson.com), the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, is the bestselling author of over 35 novels including, Peter And the Starcatchers (co-written with Dave Barry), the young adult novel, The Kingdom Keepers, and two dozen crime novels including: Probable Cause, Beyond Recognition and Killer Weekend (July 2007). His novel The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer, a prequel to a Stephen King miniseries, was a New York Times #1 bestseller, as was Peter and the Shadow Thieves (#1 for 6 weeks). Ridley adapted The Diary Of Ellen Rimbaurer for ABC Television; it aired in 2003.

Peter and the Starcatchers is to open as a stage play, off-Broadway in March 2011, under Disney Theatrical.

Ridley is a founding member of, and plays bass guitar in, the all-author rock band, The Rockbottom Remainders (www.rockbottomremainders.com), with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan and Greg Iles. The band has raised over 2.5 million dollars for charities over its 18 year history.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars more boring than stalled traffic, August 11, 2001

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Roger "rsarao" (Howell, NJ, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Look Back: A Brilliant Russian Assassin. An Obsessed American Manhunter. And One Very Deadly Secret... (Mass Market Paperback)

Wow. I've enjoyed other Pearson books when I'm looking for a quick read, but this book was painful to finish. It seems at times to be parody of the international spy novel -- the character, dialoge and story lines are so cliche I found myself laughing out loud at times. I resorted to keeping this in my car to read only when stalled in traffic -- even then, sometimes the traffic was more interesting. Avoid this one.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars couldn't finish, May 21, 2001

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Ralph Adam Fine - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Never Look Back: A Brilliant Russian Assassin. An Obsessed American Manhunter. And One Very Deadly Secret... (Mass Market Paperback)

normally love Pearson ... his books are taut -- good characters -- _realistic_ characters ... but not this time ... everyone in the US gov't is a brilliant patrician ... suave ... handsome .. cool ... and, oh yes, independently wealthy too! come on! not one likable character ... even the villain was one-dimensional ... tossed it after reading just a third of it -- even that was too much! ... not worth the effort -- quite annoying ...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SHOULD NOT HAVE READ "NEVER LOOK BACK", January 29, 2002

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Mac Blair "Mac Blair" (Huntingdon, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Look Back: A Brilliant Russian Assassin. An Obsessed American Manhunter. And One Very Deadly Secret... (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a really waste of time for me. I have read all of the Lou Boldt series so I thought anything by Ridley Person would be good, boy, was I wrong. There were many, many boring pages, to much description of what I think was going on. So much was really unbelieveable. Clayton or what ever his code name is at the present time, is a superman, cannot be killed no matter what. Just an all around bad book for me. I did read it all thinking it had to get better, but it did not. Read something you know you like or some of the Lou Boldt books and leave this one alone.