Book Review: Third Kill by John Ryder

Delighted to review Third Kill by John Ryder today.

My three word summary is:

  Breathless, Frantic, Action-packed

Here's the blurb

In a city of sinners, a killer is hunting…

Las Vegas, Nevada: a killer is on the hunt.
When the two of the city’s crime bosses are found brutally murdered within days of each other, the fragile balance of Sin City threatens to collapse. It’s exactly what the killer wants…

But there is one thing this killer hasn’t counted on…
Grant Fletcher has been sent to Vegas by a shady government agency. He has one job: find the killer, and stop them before more people die. Stop them, by any means.

Would you send a desperate man to find a vigilante killer?
It looks like a dangerous gamble. But what neither the killer nor the government agency know is that the odds are never good unless you’ve got Fletcher on your side.

My Thoughts

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Hold on to your breeches folks, for your in for one hell of a ride with this one. As action
packed as the first two in the series, Third Kill takes us away from rural settings to Las Vegas where an extremely skilled female assassin known as The mantis is picking off her targets with little thought to the safety of civilians. Of course, those who've read the first two books in the series will know that Grant Fletcher is a killing machine - but he's a killing machine with morals and the ability to hold back on killing if it isn't essential, so Mantis's arbitrary disregard for innocent life really gets Fletcher's anger up. Teamed once more with Zoe Quadrado, the pair are put on a mission to stop The Mantis and as usual, the identity of their handler whom they only know as Soter is unknown to them. Fletcher, unlike Quadrado who is an FBI agent, is only concerned with getting the job done, stopping the deaths of innocent people and keeping his daughter safe. The thing I like most about this series is that Fletcher is an analytical man. We experience his thought processes, his options and his reasoning as he analyses each situation thrown at him. This is tantalizingly addictive. It sets Fletcher apart from the thuggish, misogynistic thugs he is usually tasked with finding - although in this case his target is female. This is a fast paced read, with action, near death experiences and tension aplenty. A great read.