Path of the Assassin

Another fun ride

Two things stood out to me in this book: Firstly, it felt a lot less like we were constantly being thrown into action for the sake of action and there was better story-telling with deeper characters building. Secondly, I bloody loved the female character in this. I always concentrate on female characters in books to see if the author actually gives them a purpose or if they're just the love interest. But this one was a really strong character who helped Scot Harvath with no real sexual or romantic intentions.

A lot of events in the book are presented as plausible yet aren't. An example. In the scenes involving the plane hijack, after the female character is able to struggle from her would be rapitst, and is about to shoot him, two other hijackers come from behind her and two shots are heard. They both missed and instead of firing again, they ran towards her. She had enough time to turn around, drop to the floor, and kill them both. Later we find out the hijackers were highly trained terrorists.... OK.