{"id":3299,"date":"2023-11-21T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:26:36","slug":"assassins-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Assassins Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this remarkable thriller full of heartbreak, humor, and bone-chilling violence, Mark\u2014the world\u2019s most dangerous, and best, killer-for-hire\u2014is trying to get out of the assassin business. Known worldwide as the Pale Horse, he inspires fear among his fellow contract killers wherever he goes. But as the book opens, Mark isn\u2019t going anywhere except for a 12-step group on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side, Assassins Anonymous (he\u2019s just received his six-month chip). And Mark has some major amends he needs to make. But at the end of an AA meeting\u2014he\u2019s alone, having stayed to clean up\u2014he\u2019s attacked by a vicious Russian assailant. Who is the attacker, and why is he pursuing Mark? The only way to find out is to track him down, and in no time, Mark, accompanied by his cat, P. Kitty, is off to Singapore then London then back to New York. Is Mark being lured back into the Agency, the organization he previously worked for? Is the attack just revenge, pure and simple? And how will he defend himself and eliminate his perpetrator\u2014without killing him or her? <strong>A high-speed thriller that manages to burrow deeply into Mark\u2019s past and present\u2014and the future he dreams of. A wild and hugely entertaining ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this remarkable thriller full of heartbreak, humor, and bone-chilling violence, Mark\u2014the world\u2019s most dangerous, and best, killer-for-hire\u2014is trying to get out of the assassin business. Known worldwide as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[66,163,81,50,51],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-action-adventure","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-espionage","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Assassins-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Assassins-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}