Kill for Me

Victor the Assassin, Book 8

By: Tom Wood

Narrated by: Peter Noble

For years, two sisters have vied for the turf of their dead crime boss father. Across the streets of Guatemala City, bodies have piled up; the US Drug Enforcement Agency, operating far from its own borders, is powerless to stop the fighting.

But now one sister has a weapon that could finally win the war - a cold, amoral hitman known, fittingly, as 'Victor'.

Freed from previous employers the CIA and MI6, Victor is a killer for hire whose sense of self-preservation trumps all else. Yet as betrayal and counterbetrayal unspool in the vicious family feud, Victor finds himself at the centre of a storm even he could be powerless to stop.

Acclaimed best seller Tom Wood blows the competition away with his twisting, relentless new thriller, 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).

©2018 Thomas Hinshelwood (P)2018 Thomas Hinshelwood

Critic reviews

"Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive." (Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X)

Good!

Seems people are whining about the new narrator. I actually really liked Peter Noble's performance. Not at all 'rushing'. We all know it's quite hard to get used to a new performer when we are so accustomed to another, but I've leaned to give it a chance and it will re-grow. It was easy with Mr Noble. He conveyed Victor's essence quite convincing, interpreting the menacing gentleman quite effectively. Good story, culminating the spinning lines into an interesting and victorious ending. I'll definitely buy the next one.

New narrator sucks - Huge disappointment

I have bought all previous Victor audiobooks which were narrated by Daniel Philpott.
I do not know what happened, but it is a huge disappointment that he doesn't do it anymore.

The new narrator, Peter Noble, reads so very fast and in an unpleasant, nonstop aggressive way, that I had to turn it off.
And now I am really very frustrated.

I think, I have to give back the audiobook and buy instead the ebook. I was so excited about the release of "Kill for me" and when I had downloaded the audiobook this morning happily to my iPod and heard the first 30 minutes, I got in a bad, bad mood due to the very aggressive voice and super fast narration. If Daniel Philpott wasn't available anymore for the Victor books, one could certainly have found a better narrator than Peter Noble. Was Peter Noble in a hurry to getting somewhere, or was this a speed-reading contest, when he narrated the book? One could think that.

And what happened to Daniel Philpott btw? I do not understand why he's not narrating these series anymore. I am not English and maybe therefore the reading of Peter Noble's performance is too fast for me. However, I have listened to hundreds of English audiobooks and never had a problem with comprehension.The listener wants to transfer the information of the situation and the story into images in his brain. This is called VISUALISATION. The visualisation of read data cannot happen when every sentence is fired up like a machine gun. Too fast and much too aggressive.

As I am not able to listen to this audiobook, I give Tom Wood nevertheless the credit of 5 points for the story.
I'll buy the book today and read it myself.

A Good Victor book

I enjoyed this book, as I have all the others. I quite like the small incidental details that go with the character's day to day existence.

Peter Noble did a good job of narration, similar to the others but still well listenable. Another reviewer found it to be too rushed and fast - I found this not to be the case at all, it was a good pace - perhaps they had the playback at 1.25x?

Only one thing really grated with me with some details in the middle of the book, its not really a spoiler but it was annoying. There was a shooting, the gun described was a heavy revolver - but a following scene with the investigators described the 5 shell casings found on the floor, for the 5 shots for 5 kills. Revolvers do not eject their casings upon shooting like a semi automatic pistol. So this detail is lacking in the understanding of a basic pistol - with all the other sharp details in this story, for me it is this was one that is noted for its innacuracy. Victor with his care and attetion to detail is unlikely to eject the casings manually then fling them around just for effect, if he had there woud be an unspent bullet with the 5 casings as that's how you remove casings from a 6 shot revolver etc,etc.
Tom Wood, (or your editor) pop down to the shooting range and plink a few shots with some different handguns for a refresher.

Regardless of this annoyance, it was a good listen, worth the credit.