Molto bello, mi è piaciuto tanto e, di certo, tra quelli fino ad oggi letti di questa serie è sicuramente il libro che mi è piaciuto di più.
Una storia intricata e ricca di colpi di scena che inizia ad Algeri per chiudersi a Roma e dove Victor dovrà usare tutta la sua astuzia e intelligenza per riuscire a portare a termine il suo incarico.
Una storia che trova forza anche nella minuzia delle descrizioni che, per quanto meticolose tanto da rasentare il pedante, riescono invece dare forza e carattere alla vicenda.
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This is the third book in Tom Wood's series about Victor the assassin. If you haven't read the previous books, it doesn't matter too much - although by all means you should read them because they're pretty good. Our "hero" Victor is an assassin who liked to operate as a lone wolf. He is inscrutable, ruthless, highly analytical and very, very good at what he does. After reading all three books in the series I still know next to nothing about him - not his real name, his nationality, how he came to do what he does. One of the things that I love about him is that he never lets his guard drop. You know he's not going to fall into bed with a seductive woman or let his emotions cloud his judgement. He's on high alert at all times.

The story kicks off with Victor in Algiers, on the tail of another assassin that he has been hired to kill. He completes that assignment, but then he is coerced into posing as the dead man to identify the client who had hired the assassin for his final job. Victor goes undercover but finds that events quickly start to spiral outside his control.

It's a fast moving book with lots of action but not so fast that it becomes silly. There are plenty of twists along the way, which keep the suspense up. And Victor is just such a cool character! There's so much thought that's gone into the way that he operates, so it never feels unrealistic as books in this genre often can.

There are a number of writers mining similar territory: Sam Cain, Mark Greaney, Vince Flynn - but I think Tom Wood beats them all. ( )