The Kill List
The edge-of-your-seat thriller from the legendary author of The Day of the Jackal
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4.0 • 55 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The international bestselling political thriller from the author of The Day of the Jackal, now a Sky TV series with Eddie Redmayne
'Packs a punch... impossible to put down' Daily Mail
'The plot is as taut and lean as ever' Daily Express
'The master of the political thriller strikes again' Kirkus
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THE KILL LIST
The names of those men and women who would threaten the world's security - held above top secret at the highest level of the US government.
THE PREACHER
At the top of it, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out.
THE TRACKER
Ex-US marine, now one of America's most effective terrorist hunters, with an impossible job. Aided only by a brilliant teenaged hacker, he must throw out the bait and see whether his deadly target can be drawn from his lair...
Readers love The Kill List:
'Totally unputdownable! ***** Reader review
‘Frederick Forsyth books always hit the spot. One of the greats.’ ***** Reader review
‘[An] action-packed page-turner' ***** Reader review
‘Another great read from the master storyteller’ ***** Reader review
‘This book is up there with his best, meticulously researched, well- plotted...and the story doesn't lose impetus all the way through.’ ***** Reader review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This subpar war-on-terror thriller from Diamond Dagger Award winner Forsyth, with its unknowable outcome, offers less suspense than his Edgar-winning debut, The Day of the Jackal, where the ending is never in doubt. A Muslim extremist, known only as the Preacher, is spreading the message of violent jihad via English-language videos, and his acolytes have begun targeting public officials in the U.S. and the U.K. The job of stopping him falls to Kit Carson, an ex-Marine now part of a super-secret agency in Virginia called Technical Operations Support Activity. Carson, who's known as the Tracker, assembles an assortment of allies straight out of a Mission Impossible script, including a reclusive teenager who's a master hacker employed to trace the Preacher. Some readers will wonder why Forsyth bothered to give Carson a personal incentive to complete the mission. Others will find a lack of memorable characters an obstacle to genuine engagement.
