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The Mark of the Assassin: A Novel | 
| Author: Daniel Silva
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Pages: 465
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ISBN: 0679455639
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
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Publication Date: March 10, 1998
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| Customer Reviews: Read 102 more reviews...
 Fast-Paced But Unemotional December 28, 2008
This is a good thriller in that I read through the whole thing fairly quickly, and the use of setting was interesting because it kept changing around from France to Amsterdam and such. But it was hard to have any feelings for either of the main characters. I suppose it's good to have some detachment in an assassination novel, but here it was perhaps too extreme.
 Entertaining plot ruined by trite domestic subplot ... November 25, 2008
This book could've been a fantastic thriller. All of the ingredients are present: a ruthless and brilliant assassin and a capable protagonist as his foil. The book was greatly diminished by it's portrayal of its protagonist's marriage to a high-powered lawyer obsessed with getting pregnant. It's artlessly handled and derails the pace of the book.
Pretty good, nothing spectacular November 19, 2008
This is one of those books that you should read when you're on a plane. You're somewhat distracted, you're sleepy, and you need something you can shove in your pocket absentmindedly when the plane lands. You *don't* need something involved, esoteric, or complicated. This book fits that bill perfectly.
Our hero is a CIA "case officer" who hunts terrorists. For years he's been tracking, vaguely, an assassin who used to work for the KGB but has branched out on his own with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Interestingly, highly-paid assassins don't make that much money, so he lives in a cottage on the coast of Brittany and paints watercolors, which supplement his income. As the book starts, the assassin has been sent on an unusual mission, and when he concludes it everyone's looking for him, including his old nemesis at the CIA. There are all sorts of twists and turns to the plot, but nothing particularly original or surprising.
I liked the way the book worked out, after a fashion. The characters are reasonably good, if a bit stereotypical, and the action is very well-done. The whole thing reads quickly. It's sort of on the level of a Stuart Woods spy novel, nothing really there, but suitably diverting.
 Conspiratorial nonsense June 15, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I didn't get far with this story. When a bunch of unlikely conspirators from democracies and tyrannies meet in a luxury villa on a mountain top, indulge themselves inordinately, agree to kill a great many innocent men, women and children for their own profit, then leave and let the villa burn to the ground, I gave up and threw the book away. This author can write a good spy story, and has written several that are both gripping and sufficiently plausible, but this isn't one of them.
Knowing what I know now... June 9, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I had read this book when it was published I'm sure I would have had a much different response to it. If, for instance, I could still regard the CIA as a credible agency and not a useless, terrible joke I might have found the premise of a dynamic, competent CIA agent believable. Since the average CIA agent has been proven to be an inept bureaucrat the entire concept of the book is laughable. Add the typical liberal viewpoint of anything conservative and you just have a pale, lifeless version of LaCarre. Too bad since based on "Unlikely Spy" I thought I was going to like Silva's books.
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