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In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. But first he has to find them—they’re ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified “deep black” locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them—and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man. As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself. In an action-packed journey that leads from a high-security military installation in the Appalachian Mountains to a secret underground bunker hidden far below the streets of New York City, Nick Mason will have to become, more than ever before, the lethal weapon that Darius Cole created.
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2 primary booksNick Mason is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Steve Hamilton.
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This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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You kill one person, it changes you.
You kill five . . . it's not about changing anymore.
It's who you are
The Second Life of Nick Mason
Loved it. I really, really hope there will be another. The only thing I felt I didn't get from this installment was the list of rules Nick lives by. In book one, his rules are clearly defined and support some of the strongest and most compelling aspects of Nick's character. Those rules also served the plot well. Otherwise, this was as compelling a modern noir story you could hope for, and it was awesome!
I did the audiobook version of this from Audible, and Ray Porter is the narrator. Porter is as capable a narrator as I've ever encountered. He does the finest accents and everything about his delivery is velvety smooth. The audiobook was so good, I cruised through this in about 24 hours.