The Perfect Assassin

A Novel

By: Ward Larsen

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

The Atlantic: A young woman sailing solo across the Atlantic makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to life in the open ocean. But the desperate survivor is more than he appears. He is a Kidon - an Israeli assassin - who forcibly commandeers her boat with a new destination in mind: England. There the two are forced into an uneasy partnership as they run from a secretive and lethal organization. The resulting wake of destruction brings Scotland Yard to the hunt - searching for an accomplished killer and a woman whose life has been capsized.

One Shot: The Kidon soon uncovers the true enemy - a manipulator responsible for the tragic event that shaped him to be what he is. There is only one solution. With deliberate, inescapable precision, he will hunt down the one who created... The Perfect Assassin.

©2006 Ward Larsen (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

terrible narration

some people shouldn't do accents.
sorry Amy you maybe a lovely lady but I don't think I can listen to another book with you reading it to me.
drop the accents and it would be better

A TRUE review!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a fantastic series! And despite the other reviews bashing the female narrator in this first book only, she did a fantastic job as well. Her ability to take on any accent made me stop thinking of her as a female narrator and just listen to the story with its many twists and turns. And even though I do prefer the male narrators in the rest of the series, don’t let that stop you from diving in.

I’ve read them all. Orphan X got me started then I moved on to The Gray Man and kept going from there. Dewey Andreas, Mitch Rapp, Scot Horvath, Victor, Pike Logan, James Reece, and on and on. Let me tell you that David Slaton is up there with the best.

Ward Larsen spins quite the tale and there are so many twists and turns that I’m always surprised at the end. Don’t hesitate because of any bad reviews. This series is worth every penny and I know because I’m on book 5 at the moment.

Great but....

I enjoyed everything about my introduction to the Slaton series except the narrator. she was poor on accents and terrible on men's voices which outnumbered the women's parts.

Hard to listen to

I am a big fan of the assassin theme novel and search for great stories in this genre. I was excited to see this series with decent reader ratings... but, I cannot finish book one. The narrator is difficult to listen to - to the point of distraction. I will be returning the book without finishing it. Her british accents are really challenging. All the brits sound like idiots. There are others that are described as having accents, including the main character (northern european accent) and many Israelis, - all who the narrator reads without an accent. Why not just do the whole book without accents? Would the book be much more enjoyable to just read it instead of acting out the brits only? Sorry Mr. Larsen, I an sure that you are a terrific author and I will try another of your books without the narration.

Oh, the narrator....

This was a struggle for me to finish. I think the story itself was OK, but I really struggled with the narrator. Her British accents, in particular, were just awful. I had a hard time sticking with narrator long enough to make much headway in the book until I finally just told myself that I had to finish the thing to be able to move on.