Book Synopsis:
‘I am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.’
Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hitman in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first.
So when a bullet hits the glass inches from his face, he knows who fired it – doesn’t he?
But the sniper isn’t the hardened killer he was expecting. It’s Mireille – a mysterious, silent child, abandoned in the woods with instructions to pull the trigger.
Reuniting with his spiky lover, Kat, Seventeen must protect Mireille, and discover who sent her to kill him, and why.
But the road he must travel is littered with bodies. And the answer, when it comes, will blow apart everything Seventeen thought he knew.
My Review:
Assassin Eighteen is a fast paced, thrilling read which I really enjoyed. It’s going to be a difficult book to review as I don’t want to give anything away.
The book starts off with a bang and the pace never really lets off as we follow seventeen and his sidekick/ love interest kat. It was great fun To follow him on his mission, with some of the settings helping to bring the scene to life as they were so vivid. You can really tell the author is a film maker as some of the parts of the book were incredibly visual and action packed.
I thought the plot was fantastic and there always seemed to be something happening to keep me reading. It seemed very real which made the book even more exciting to read as I often felt like I was actually there watching everything unfold alongside the characters. There were lots of twists to keep me guessing and I absolutely loved the unexpected but fitting ending.
This is the second book in the series and I’m really hoping there will be more to come. It would be great to see this as a film as I’d love to see the fantastic scenes come to life.
Huge thanks to Alainna from Hodder and Stoughton for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
John Brownlow is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. Born in Lincoln, UK, after studying maths and English at Oxford he produced and directed more than a dozen documentaries for British TV. In the early 2000s he turned to screenwriting, and wrote the film SYLVIA about Sylvia Plath, starring Gwynneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig. He also wrote the TV series FLEMING, about Ian Fleming’s work in wartime intelligence, and the TV adaptation of Jessie Burton’s best-selling novel THE MINIATURIST. His debut novel, SEVENTEEN, was published in 2022, and the sequel is due to be published in 2023.
John holds British and Canadian citizenship and lives in Ontario, Canada.
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