The Amateur
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4.2 • 83 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A spy thriller classic, now a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, and Laurence Fishburne.
“A taut, chilling plot and a protagonist as memorable as one of Len Deighton’s, or le Carré’s Smiley.”—The New York Times Book Review
Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the CIA, a quiet man in a quiet back-office job. But when his fiancée, Sarah Diamond, is murdered by terrorists at the American Embassy in West Germany and the Company refuses to pursue her killers, Heller takes matters into his own hands.
Tracking down Sarah’s killers behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, Heller becomes both the hunter and the hunted—an amateur facing off against the world’s deadliest assassins and spies. But nothing will stop him from getting revenge.
Expertly plotted with shocking twists and pulse-pounding suspense, The Amateur is a sleek and stunning novel that belongs on the shelves of every espionage fan.
Customer Reviews
See AllEven in the 21st century
This story holds up! Great stuff even as unlikely as it is. New movie comes in April, a remake of the 1981 movie. Goes to show that good stories never get old
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Good to the last word
The Amateur is written so convincingly that I felt like it passed over from the line of fiction into the line of reality. I could sense a feeling of Heller, the main character, having been betrayed by those he believed in and at the same time his unprofessionalism in his role at the CIA, gave him a feeling of superiority because his grasp of the fine implications of each action performed by CIA superiors. I suggest you read it and hopefully it’ll be as thoroughly enjoyable as it was for me.