Seventeen is a hitman, the best in the world, so-called because there were sixteen before him, stretching back through the decades. Every government organization in the world wants his services and every other high-level hitman has placed a target on his back. Because to be the best, you have to beat the best.
When Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, the hit goes wrong and hunter turns to hunted. An ultraviolent duel develops between two assassins at the height of their powers, but when they fight themselves to a standstill, the real target of the hit emerges, and they must join forces to defeat their joint enemy – and in the process prevent an unjustified war that could kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
Seventeen is the first in a series that is action-packed, smart and driven by a fresh, sharp voice that will stick with you long after listening.
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
When Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, the hit goes wrong and hunter turns to hunted. An ultraviolent duel develops between two assassins at the height of their powers, but when they fight themselves to a standstill, the real target of the hit emerges, and they must join forces to defeat their joint enemy – and in the process prevent an unjustified war that could kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
Seventeen is the first in a series that is action-packed, smart and driven by a fresh, sharp voice that will stick with you long after listening.
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Reviews
A gripping debut thriller from a British-Canadian screenwriter and it keeps readers on the edge of their seats through a roller-coaster ride of high-octane action that builds to an explosive finale
Keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing with every turn of the page. A fantastic and thrilling new entry into the modern-day spy genre
Pacy
SEVENTEEN reinvents the hitman novel. It's a cinematic rollercoaster, full of authentic emotion and high-octane action. The tension explodes off the pages; John Brownlow is a master of suspense
A slick, clever, edge-of-the-seat thriller
This is a fresh adrenaline-charged, and snarkily funny spy thriller with an explosive climax
Reads like a winning Amazon Prime Thriller pitch . . . utterly gripping from get-go
The book takes off like a rocket . . . Brownlow is an accomplished screenwriter, and it shows
The pace never falters a single inch in this high octane, breathless thriller. Lean, mean and thoroughly enjoyable
This is probably the most action-packed spy thriller that fans of the genre will read this year, with short busy chapters where conspiracies unfold at the rate of a particularly sharp shooting pistol dispensing bullets