Mark of the Assassin

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Summary: Good summer read!
Review: My first time reading Silva, I found "Mark" to be a quick and entertaining summer read. The action was compelling and his decsriptions of locations (having been to most) were dead-on. The ending seemed a little rushed and predictable - but most of this genre do. "Mark" is a page turner like early Clancy; lets hope his future work don't begin to bloat with extraneous detail as Clancy's has.

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Summary: Want a good read like The Unlikely Spy? It's not here.
Review: I was expecting a good spy novel like Silva's previous The Unlikely Spy, but it definitely wasn't in this book. The Mark of the Assassin is not much more than a cheap knock-off of a Tom Clancy novel -- it even has a whole lot of stock stereotypical characters (the traitor, the love interest, the religiously ferverant crazy person). And if dumb action, stock characters, and impossible situations won't sell this book, why not stick in a whole lot of gratuitous sex? This book is a let down and I'm not look forward to Silva's new book.

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Summary: Great
Review: I thought this book was great for fast moving adreline rush people like me. He really made his characters seem so real. one thing i didn't like about it though was that he didn't really explain how the gov't fit in to it all

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Summary: Sophomore effort disappoints.
Review: I'm sorry, but while THE UNLIKELY SPY was a terrific WW II thriller, complete with a compelling plot and memorable characters, MARK OF THE ASSASSIN seems to have been written by another writer altogether. The characters are stick-thin and the plot is entirely forgetable. I frankly had to force myself to finish it. A major disappoinment.

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Summary: The most enjoyable book I read so far this year.
Review: weeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Summary: Good, but not Day of the Jackal
Review: While this is a great book, "Day of the Jackal" is still far better. Good character development, slightly predictable plot line, but a great page turner ending.

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Summary: Worth reading if you're running out of fresh material.
Review: I read the Unlikely Spy and really enjoyed it. I was therefore thrilled to see a new Silva book in the paperback rack. Unfortunately, Mark of the Assassin doesn't quite live up to the standard set by its predecessor. It does read fast, which I like, but there just didn't seem enough substance to it. I see that they're already coming out with the sequal pitting our hero against his nemesis yet I feel no sense of urgencey to run out and buy it.

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Summary: Suspenseful novel with great characters!
Review: This book was great! Sliva really boosted his career with this one. He has the best characterization outside of Stephen King and his plot was tantilizing! "The Mark of the Assassin" is a must read for anyone who likes a good espionage/political novel.

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Summary: Too Many Phantom Stereotypes -- Otherwise OK
Review: Silva's new book is larded with "beautiful," incandescently "intelligent," and, of course, wealthy persons whose fortunes were either inherited or made effortlessly before the book started. Unfortunately, neither the world nor our government is run by these phantoms of character-by-the-number fiction; otherwise, for example, we would not be enmeshed in the current Balkan morass--either causing or suffering the death of so many thousands. Mark of the Assassin is, nevertheless, an OK read for the airport.

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Summary: Fast paced, enjoyable characters, hard to put down
Review: My first Silva book but certainly not my last. I know he has a new one due out, can't wait! The only thing I didn't care for was how Delarouche could shoot anyone three times in the face with a 9mm weapon?