The Chaos Kind
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The assassins of Barry Eisler's #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back--and this time, it's chaos. Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons. Enter former Marine sniper Dox and black-ops veteran Daniel Larison with an unusual assignment: not to kill Diaz, but to keep her alive. A lot of players are determined to acquire the videos and the blackmail power they represent. But with Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, "natural causes" killer John Rain, and ex-Mossad honey-trap specialist Delilah, the good guys might just have a chance. They're not going to play by anyone else's rules. They're not going to play by any rules at all. They want a different kind of fight. The chaos kind.
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good but standard except for the ending, which takes place with all the characters, which is ridiculous. Delilah and Livia are total pills and I am not interested in reading further about them.
This is another fast-passed thriller from Barry Eisler. This story brings together a team of very dangerous operatives and stone-cold killers from Eisler's earlier books and adds a few new characters. They have a very tough job and a tight time limit. The consequences of failure would be very bad indeed. The question is, can they cooperate well enough to pull it off. Their opponents are highly placed government officials with deep resources who will do anything to prevent the truth about events in their past from coming out.
Some of the characters are a bit cardboardy, but things move so swiftly that it didn't really bother me.
The plot is twisty, the action level is very high, there is lots of violence, and the bodies pile up. If that kind of story is your thing, this would be a good read.
Barry Eisler narrated his own book and did a very good job of it. Talented fellow.
Solid four stars.
