The Final Hour
Victor the Assassin, Book 7
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The Final Hour
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Philpott
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By:
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Tom Wood
About this listen
Author of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club best seller Better Off Dead
From best-selling author Tom Wood comes a unique and gasp-inducing Victor thriller that turns all your expectations on their head....
Former CIA agent Antonio Alvarez has been tracking a dangerous murderer for years, a nameless hitman responsible for numerous homicides. Once, the Agency deflected him away from his search, but now a promotion has given him a second chance to right the past.
Only problem is the murderer has vanished.
Thousands of miles away, the assassin known as Victor has stopped working - recently he began to care; he made mistakes. But there's another assassin, Raven, who needs his help - and she is hard to refuse....
Enter a world of betrayal, tension and twists perfect for fans of Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, The Nowhere Man), James Swallow (Nomad, Exile) and Terry Hayes (I Am Pilgrim, Day of the Locust).
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Critic reviews
Too much acting in the voices. The Victor voice and the background voice are great. All the others too active. They distract from the coolness of the book.
Disappointed this time
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There were too many characters and too many different stories which seemed to veer off in all directions which had no real structure for my liking. Philpott has also had better days, with a few accents being not quite on par.
Not enthralling, but a decent read. It was nothing special, perhaps I've put Victor on too high a pedestal. You will more than likely enjoy parts of it as did I, so based on that I would still suggest giving it a try. Soz Tom.
Too many characters, stories didn't flow!
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The performance was particularly poor as well. For some reason the reader seemed to think that whole sections - rather than just the dialogue - needed to be read out in his interpretations of the character's accent, which became - for me at least - quite tedious.
Don't worry, though Tom Wood is back on form in book 8, "Kill For Me" and it's much, much better than this one.
Disjointed
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This character is dark smart and clever
Bourne meets Reacher meets one bad mo fo
Must listen book with great narration and powerful characters
Victor is back
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I really, really don't like this narrator though - and whilst his reading is pretty poor all round, it's his use (or misuse) of accents that particularly spoil the ride.
Look if you're going to do accents in a talking book they have to be absolutely iron-clad. It's different to stage, screen or tv acting - you've got nothing visual to distract so nowhere to hide. And as a listener, with bad accents, you're constantly pitched out of the narrative world and brought crashing back down to your own.
So if you can do accents brilliant - but if you can't it's much easier for me to believe you're an American voiced with an English accent rather than in an unconvincing American one.
After all Sean Connery made a career out of playing English secret agents/Spanish swordsman and Irish cops - all with exactly the same accent!
Putting the accent on accents!
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Another great Victor story
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Still, I'll give book 8 a listen and let you know...
classic Victor
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top books
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Shame it had to be this way, but overall loyalty to the 'Victor' character means happy to wait for the next installment.
A sharper focus needed
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good next instalment
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