The Break Line
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3.8 • 36 Ratings
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Publisher Description
British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent.
When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price.
His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers that London may consider him the most disposable piece in this operation.
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British documentarian Brabazon (My Friend the Mercenary: A Memoir) makes his fiction debut with an adrenaline-charged thriller. Soon after Max McLean, who has been an off-the-books assassin for the British government for more than two decades, decides not to kill his target in Caracas, Venezuela, he receives another assignment. He must travel to Karabunda, a jungle outpost in northern Sierra Leone, and kill the white leader of an insurgent force without backup or access to the usual intel. Max poses as a doctor to scout the remote area, only to discover that the military has closed off the entire region, claiming a cholera outbreak. He learns, though, that the dead have been savaged, some dismembered or eviscerated, with human bite marks left on the bodies. Later, in Freetown, he recovers a message left for him by a comrade-in-arms with a phrase in Irish that translates as "kill them all." Brabazon's inventive violence, mix of combat styles, and slowly revealed truths will keep readers on the edge of their seats.)
Customer Reviews
Superlative!
The Break Line is the first novel in the Max McLean series by award winning war correspondent, James Brabazon. If a good book is one that grabs your attention at the beginning and holds it to the end, and you immediately know what’s going on and that doesn’t change; how do you characterize a book that grabs and holds your attention but your opinion about what’s REALLY going on constantly changes? I’d say I just read it, and it’s not good, or even great, it’s superlative. This is an expertly written novel, especially for a debut in the genre. Brabazon has set the bar high for himself.