Tom Wood, The Killer

I've come to realize that I'm a sucker for intelligent criminals, and Tom Wood's assassin certainly fits the bill. You know the kind of guy: he's got money stashed in foreign countries and he has to perform counter surveillance measures on trips home from the grocery store and he never trusts anyone. (I always wonder, where do these guys get the time to do so much? It's hard enough getting chores done without having to take multiple taxi rides to throw off would-be followers.) This book is full of that sort of stuff, and I loved it. But after a while it became too much—the plot a little too convoluted, the fight scenes a little too hard to believe. I kind of wish it had ended a bit sooner.

Two other unrelated observations: 1. There were a surprisingly large number of places where the book could have used editing, at least in the Kindle edition. 2. I can't take points off for this, but I was quite shocked at what happened 76% of the way through. I thought I knew pretty well where the story was going before that, but I got surprised, and not pleasantly.