Tom Wood, The Enemy

I think I'm tiring of Tom Wood's Victor the assassin books. (This is book two, plus there was a Kindle Single that bridged the gap between the two books.) At least, it took me an enormous amount of time to get through this one. I think that Victor and his doings, the details of his work, are as interesting to me as they have been—though Wood occasionally goes into far too much detail about Victor's weaponry. The problem, I believe, is that Wood doesn't provide enough information about some of the other characters in the story or about the big picture to make us really care what's going on. In particular, I've completely forgotten what we learned in book one about the back story of Victor's CIA handlers. So every time they were mentioned in this book, I wished that Wood would make me care about them and provide some summary of their previous history.

I also never cared about the various plots going on in this book. Was the fate of the world riding on whether or not someone was assassinated? I don't know. It never seemed to matter very much. (I would add that the naming system of these books is regrettable: The Killer, The Enemy, and next comes The Game. They're interchangeable and not memorable. Even at only three books to date it's difficult to remember which you've read and which you haven't. The Killer was also published as The Hunter, which only adds to the confusion.)