Keeps them hooked and makes this novel stand out among other novels of the same genre In this book we follow Victor across 4 continents when a job he is doing goes spectacularly wrong The pace in the book as we follow Victor keeps the suspense up and keeps the novel interesting It really is a great book for fans of crime thriller novels Tom Wood Victor is a skilled assassin that is seriously intense and paranoid Nobody knows his surname or background and very few people know he exists Who will be his next target I really enjoyed this and look forward to the next Tom Wood Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0751545309 can be found here Note The Hunter is the UK title It is titled The Killer in the US Forget James Bond Forget Jason Bourne Forget Jack Bauer Meet Victor He s an assassin a man with the no past and no surname But when a job in Paris goes spectacularly wrong.

Intrigue enough to keep you hooked until the last page I m addicted to this series Tom Wood The start of Victor assassin and great series Enthralling and sophisticated to the last page Tom Wood This was to me a surprisingly good and addictive read The author takes what might have been a sort of been there done that action adventure and turned it into a thoughtful interesting read with some pretty original twistsAnd saying it has a couple of fairly original twists is a big deal in what is at heart a political techno type thriller I was at least mildly surprised on one occasion which doesn t happen all that often any . We start out with the story of a professional killer he hates the phrase Hit Man who does his job and then is unexpectedly yet inevitability betrayed After an exciting and running shoot out through a Paris hotel against impossible oddsthings get tricky. It s so odd to find myself in a book on the side of the hired killerit s only happened once before Hit Man Yet here I am involved in the novel and already planning to get the next volume in this series I really hope this one holdsp It s an excellent start to what I hope will be an excellent series. I can highly recommend this one and I do Enjoy Tom Wood I read this for the Goodreads Action Adventure Aficionados group read and boy did it fit the bill If a reader is looking for an authentic antiheroic lead who could very well be the bad guy in another book.

Victor is an assassin at the top of his game After an all too simple job in Paris a hit squad is sent to kill Victor but the only man who knows where he is sent him to Paris in the first place Betrayed and out in the open Victor has turned from the hunter into the hunted for the first time in his life Running across Europe he desperately tries to unravel the conspiracy against him but how high does the rot go Will he manage to survive long enough to piece together the big picture Time will tellThis has to be one of the fastest paced books I have read in fact one of the best books I have ever read full stop. Victor is Bourne Reacher Bond on Speed This books is superbly written with really great action fantastic characters strong plot and twists great hints of humour between female character and Victor. I couldn t put it down and the end of the book had me gasping for breath to see who was going to survive with so many powerful characters with great international settings from France UK USA Russia Cyprus just great international plot. The series revolves around Victor a ruthless and deadly but actually rather a nice guy who just happens to kill people for moneya freelance assassin with no past and no home a loner the total antihero hitman. guns shoot outs good guys bad guysExplosive car chases action packed with nail biting fighting and shooting sequences a total frenzy of kill or be killed What I found interesting was how the author created such an likeable and appealing herothis is a man who kills for money and yet I found something human in him Most of the secondary characters are not very likeable. The Enemy Tom Wood Victor is an assassin at the top of his game but when a simple job in Paris goes badly wrong he becomes the hunted instead of the hunter Running for his life across Europe he tries to unravel the conspiracy while battling the another assassin The action is great Rob Sharpio does awesome narration the story and voices Tom Wood Published 12 05 2011Author Tom WoodWow. I thought that this was a really amazing book and just my type my brother in law lent me this book as I love these kind of books I hadn t read a book by Tom Wood before but would definitely read all of his books It featured the amazing Victor who even though he is an assassin he is definitely my favourite character It is a fast paced and unpredictable book with plenty of twists and turns just when you think you know what is going to happen next it has an unpredictable turn and throws you off guard It is expertly written by the outstanding Tom Wood he is definitely one of my favourite authors now This is part of a series that takes your mind on the adventure with Victor It is a very addictive book that is nearly impossibly to put down even for a minute I absolutely love this book and it definitely deserves a 5 star rating The writing style of Tom Wood is so easy to adjust and just draws you into the story line Victor is an assassin possibly one of the best assassins you will read about in my opinion he doesn t do things that you would expect an assassin to do which keeps the reader on their toes and keeps them interested in the story line Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust pursued by enemies too powerful to escape The hunter has become the hunted Victor is a freelancer a professional a killer the best there is He s ice cold methodical and deadly He lives alone He operates alone No one knows his background or even his name For him business is a straight transaction He s given a job he takes out the target he gets paid He s in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client The contract is simple routine and Victor completes it with trademark efficiency only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life Faced with powerful and determined enemies and caught in the crossfire of an international conspiracy unfolding across four continents Victor is forced to go on the run across a winter ravaged Europe Pursued by the authorities hired assassins and intelligence agencies from both sides of the Atlantic he discovers that no place is safe for him any and there is no one he can trust But Victor is no easy target and he s every bit as ruthless as those hunting him He will find out who wants him dead and why one corpse at a time The Hunter Victor the Assassin 1 One of my favorite things to read about is assassins So much action expected dialogue inner struggles other struggles etc Pumped Tom Wood Since July 2015 I ve read this book three times It definitely deserves to be bumped up from 4 to 5 stars The first book in the Victor the Assassin series The Hunter a. Victor is an assassin who has no identity He goes from job to job and commands high fees to do what he does He didn t kill for pleasure or joy He kills because he s very good at it While Victor wouldn t kill someone for no reason he has and will kill cops if they get in his way or interfere with his self preservation When this book begins Victor takes a job that seems way to easy for a man of his talents and it turns out he s right to suspect when immediately a team of shooters is on his trail He gets away but leaves a bloodbath behind him Now he wants to find out who screwed him Victor teams with the broker who gave him the job a CIA analyst named Rebecca to try to find the people who want them both dead Problem is Victor trusts no one and works best alone. This is top notch action and suspense The action scenes are well written and often bloody At first I wasn t sure if this was a book for me with the graphic description in one of the scenes where Victor kills one of the shooters after him But thankfully it doesn t set the tone for a gory book Instead the descriptions tend to be economical and fast moving Victor is an elite assassin for a reason He knows how to handle himself and also shows a pragmaticism that makes him come off as unfeeling He s not unfeeling but has turned off his emotions for his survival As this book unfolds you never find out 100% about Victor s past Just enough to humanize him I had the feeling he had some serious trauma in his past and compartmentalizing was a way for him to survive it But there s no sob stories here Victor is not the kind of guy who would accept or command sympathy There s enough mystery that will keep readers coming back along with the excellent action and storytelling. Rebecca is an important character but she stays a secondary one Still I liked her point of view and how she related to Victor I wish I could see her in future books There was a hint of possible romance that the author choose not to developnfortunately I like romance with my action when it s there Other secondary characters are serviceable developed enough to be three dimensional and to not be portrayed as mere pawns in service to the narrative I liked Alvarez s character The killer that the engineering of everything sends after Victor is pretty damn creepy Definitely the darker side of what Victor is A good foil for him. The author is very good with imagery which makes this book feel like a stylish European Non American action movie something that Luc Besson or John Woo might direct Armchair travelers will appreciate the many and distinctive locations in this book It s a mark of the researcher that they are portrayed in a way that feels authentic without being didactic The gun play is constant well because that s the one of the assassins s main tools but there are also some excellent car chases and hand to hand action A good mix of different action elements Very good cat and mouse moments as well that made this as much a suspense book as an action book. I like that Victor is somewhat unpredictable I was never sure exactly what Victor would do or how he would react in a situation and he kept me on my toes He can be very brutal and that might be an issue for some readers He reminded me of a less principled Jack Reacher in that regard He also made me think of Will Robie and Joe Pike all action heroes I enjoy I liked the subtle dynamic between Victor and Rebecca although the conclusion on that front was poignant and not what I would have wished for I think being with Rebecca helped Victor grow in an integral way which I think will be explored in future books He was cute how awkward he was around her Not something you d expect from a cold blooded killer. The climax really kept tension high as Victor definitely finds himself facing his match and his options become extremely limited He is fighting life and death and it s not pretty I ve never been a fan of invincible characters who never face risk so I liked it that this was written this way Literally I thought Victor was dead but then I recalled this was a series so I knew he had to come out of it alive But it was a near thing. I love tough guy characters and I m adding Victor to my list of go to action heroes with some of the ones I mentioned above He s very much an anti hero but he s not completely irredeemable While I didn t like that he killed some cops in this at least he s not the kind of guy who would kill children or families or people who weren t in his way or affecting his own ability to preserve his life I enjoyed this book very much and I m looking forward to continuing this series. PS I read this on my Kindle as The Killer but it was released in print as The Hunter Tom Wood He is the author of the Victor series of 10 novels and 2 ebook novellas Tom also wrote the standalone thriller A Knock at the Door under the pseudonym T W EllisVictor 10 TRAITOR is out now in UK IE AS NZ. com newsletter He is the author of the Victor series of 10 novels and 2 ebook novellas Tom also wrote the standalone thriller A Knock at the Door under the pseudonym T W EllisVictor 10 TRAITOR is out now in UK IE AS NZ, This author has become one of my favourites after only reading two of his books: Highly recommended Tom Wood The Hunter is the debut book and the 1st in Tom Wood s Victor the Assassin Series. Carrying out his latest assignment in Paris he finds himself being chased across Europe by killers who have been assigned to take him out. Pursued by enemiesCIA Russian SVR MI6 French Secret Servicehe has tose all his talents to keep ahead of them and try to find out who wants him dead and why. Victor goes from being the hunter to now being the hunted Non stop action, arms dealers killers double agentsJason Bourne Jack Bauer and Jack Reacher Victor is all three of them in one This is a guy I want to find out about. so having enjoyed meeting Victor I am now going onto his next adventure assignment: a The Killer is a fantastic thriller full of action death they will like Victor, Readers who enjoyed this might like David Baldacci s Will Robie series The first book is The Innocent. Subscribe to Toms newsletter to stay up to date and have the chance of winning signed copies and site_link tomwoodbooks, Subscribe to Tom s newsletter to stayp to date and have the chance of winning signed copies and site_link tomwoodbooks.Love love this book.k.com newsletter site_link .