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Loading... A Quiet Manby Tom Wood
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One day a man arrives in town. Unassuming. Quiet. The assassin known as Victor is hiding out in a small motel in Canada after a job across the border. A few days laying low and he'll be gone and leave no trace behind. He doesn't count on getting to know a mother and her boy who reminds him of his own troubled childhood. When both vanish, only Victor seems to notice. Once he starts looking for them, he finds himself at odds with the criminals who own the town. They want him gone. Only Victor's going nowhere until he discovers the truth and to them he's just a quiet man asking the wrong questions. But that quiet man is a dangerous man. No library descriptions found. |
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As I said this one seems to be non-typical Victor's adventure. We find him in the Canada, across the lakes from Chicago. He is there because he needs to execute the hit, but hit on its own is something that is kept in the background.
Main story relates to the relationship Victor establishes with the young boy and his mother, receptionist at the hotel Victor is staying in. For reasons even not fully clear to himself, Victor gets interested in the disappearance om mother and child, with all evidence showing that they left in hurry and unexpectedly. Feeling that no-one else would spend any effort in investigating this, Victor starts his own research and in doing that raises hell in this small Canadian town.
I enjoyed the way Victor walks around and asks straight questions and even offers reward but no one believes him because nobody can understand why would a man like Victor ask about mother and child he has no connection with. Of course this leads all the local baddies to send their executioners to teach him a lesson only to learn the hard way that Victor is not someone you want to mess with at all. And that last thing they want is Victor's attention turned towards them.
Interesting story, it falls in the genre I like, lone wolf, knight errant you might say, in this case pretty much a complete antihero, who encounters an injustice and tries to put things straight. I enjoyed Victor questioning himself why is he doing this in the first place but in the end decides to do the right thing.
Action scenes are a plenty and Victor is truly a master of his trade. Only thing I wish was little bit less present is the way he thinks, schemes and plans the way he will strike at the enemy at hand - it is I guess OK, once or twice for the effect but would be more impactful if we just see him get the baddies on the heap (it would be more like Leon and less like Sherlock Holmes movie with that pit fight scene).
Highly recommended, I am definitely on the lookout for more Vcitor's adventures. (