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The Final Hour

Victor the Assassin, Book 7

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The Final Hour

By: Tom Wood
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
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Author of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club best seller Better Off Dead

From best-selling author Tom Wood comes a unique and gasp-inducing Victor thriller that turns all your expectations on their head....

Former CIA agent Antonio Alvarez has been tracking a dangerous murderer for years, a nameless hitman responsible for numerous homicides. Once, the Agency deflected him away from his search, but now a promotion has given him a second chance to right the past.

Only problem is the murderer has vanished.

Thousands of miles away, the assassin known as Victor has stopped working - recently he began to care; he made mistakes. But there's another assassin, Raven, who needs his help - and she is hard to refuse....

Enter a world of betrayal, tension and twists perfect for fans of Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, The Nowhere Man), James Swallow (Nomad, Exile) and Terry Hayes (I Am Pilgrim, Day of the Locust).

©2017 Tom Wood (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group
Suspense Thriller & Suspense Assassin Exciting Espionage
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"Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive." (Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X)
"Great, page-turning stuff." (James Swallow, author of Nomad and Exile)
"Very Few British writers are as good at the action thriller." ( Sunday Express)

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Disappointed this time

I’m another reviewer who lives Victor and normally loves the narration.


Too much acting in the voices. The Victor voice and the background voice are great. All the others too active. They distract from the coolness of the book.

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Too many characters, stories didn't flow!

Coming from a big fan of Victor the assassin, I take no pleasure in saying I was disappointed with Wood's latest instalment in the series.

There were too many characters and too many different stories which seemed to veer off in all directions which had no real structure for my liking. Philpott has also had better days, with a few accents being not quite on par.

Not enthralling, but a decent read. It was nothing special, perhaps I've put Victor on too high a pedestal. You will more than likely enjoy parts of it as did I, so based on that I would still suggest giving it a try. Soz Tom.

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Disjointed

The narrative in this episode of Victor the Assassin seems oddly disjointed and fragmentary, while I enjoyed the sections about Raven, the other characters took too much time away from Victor and, unlike the other books in this series, the narrative seemed all over the place.
The performance was particularly poor as well. For some reason the reader seemed to think that whole sections - rather than just the dialogue - needed to be read out in his interpretations of the character's accent, which became - for me at least - quite tedious.
Don't worry, though Tom Wood is back on form in book 8, "Kill For Me" and it's much, much better than this one.

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Victor is back

I really enjoy this series around victor
This character is dark smart and clever
Bourne meets Reacher meets one bad mo fo
Must listen book with great narration and powerful characters

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Putting the accent on accents!

I like this series - I think I've read/listened to most of them.
I really, really don't like this narrator though - and whilst his reading is pretty poor all round, it's his use (or misuse) of accents that particularly spoil the ride.
Look if you're going to do accents in a talking book they have to be absolutely iron-clad. It's different to stage, screen or tv acting - you've got nothing visual to distract so nowhere to hide. And as a listener, with bad accents, you're constantly pitched out of the narrative world and brought crashing back down to your own.
So if you can do accents brilliant - but if you can't it's much easier for me to believe you're an American voiced with an English accent rather than in an unconvincing American one.
After all Sean Connery made a career out of playing English secret agents/Spanish swordsman and Irish cops - all with exactly the same accent!

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Another great Victor story

A fresh story that ties together a lot of loose ends and brings the previous 3 books together.

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classic Victor

far better than book 6, which is the only weak one in the series. I'm disappointed to see the narrator changes for book 8 as Daniel Philpott does an outstanding job of Victor-the 'Bad Bond'.
Still, I'll give book 8 a listen and let you know...

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top books

wished they were longer enjoy them so much ready for book 8 hope there is more to come

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A sharper focus needed

Really love the 'Victor' stories but this one not only started very slow but seemed to drift quite a lot.

Shame it had to be this way, but overall loyalty to the 'Victor' character means happy to wait for the next installment.

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good next instalment

lacking the quantity of action in previous books, but an entertaining reaf nevertheless. cant wait for victor 7

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