The Cleaner John Milton Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Mark Dawson David Thorpe Audible Studios Books
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list.
But now, after 10 years, he's had enough - there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from. He goes on the run, seeking atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along the way.
But his past cannot be easily forgotten, and before long it is Milton who is hunted, and not the hunter. The Cleaner. A career of state-sanctioned murder has taken its toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares, a long line of ghosts who torment his dreams. He resolves to make his next job his last and, then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done.
Sharon Warriner is a single mother in the East End of London, suicidal with fear that she's lost her young son to a life in the gangs. After Milton saves her life, he promises to help. But the gang, and the charismatic rapper who leads it, is not about to cooperate with him.
As London burns through summer riots, Milton finds himself in unfamiliar territory, dealing with an unfamiliar foe. And when his employer sends another agent after him, the odds against him are stacked even higher.
The Cleaner John Milton Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Mark Dawson David Thorpe Audible Studios Books
This is the first full-length book in the John Milton series, and it is the first book I have read in the series. John Milton is personified as a bad^ass assassin that seeks to help people with their problems in order to atone for the things he has done in his past. In this book we actually don't learn very much about what it is he is running from, but that he has had enough of "Group 15" [an MI5 type of outfit] and has unofficially retired from the group without permission to go his own way and find himself. The Group's leader "Control" sets out to keep an eye on John by assigning "Agent 12" to keep tabs on Milton, who has fallen in with a single mother and her fifteen year old son Elijah. The boy Elijah, who becomes involved with a gang running the area known as LFB, decide that to initiate the boy, he has to kill a rival gang leader in order to prove he is worthy. Milton steps in to intervene, and the action gets taken up twenty notches. You will have to read the rest to fins out how it ends.My Take on this book:
I read a lot of fiction books, maybe 9-10 books a month. about half those I don't finish. The plot becomes too complicated, characters do stupid things or nothing at all, or the action is slow to progress. "The Cleaner" has none of those issues. The story opens with a hard-hitting scene of John Milton taking out two people with a sniper rifle at the beginning and sparing a twelve year old boy as a witness. From there the plot moves along quite rapidly and, because there are less than ten characters to follow throughout the book, readers can enjoy the journey without having to recall who was who even if you put the book down for several days. Try that with game of Thrones and you'll be totally lost.
The atmosphere of the book and story is great; the characters are well-thought out and they do exactly what they are supposed to. You either love them or hate them. The plot has a nice flow to it and with a story line that is quite "clean" and easy to follow, it makes for an enjoyable read that has you quickly flipping [scrolling] to the next chapter. Although the character Milton does have a bit of a soft spot and a conscience, it fits well into the story as he is trying to redeem himself; and then in the end, when he is forced to act, he does and with measurable violence that readers would be expecting.
I'm very impressed with "The Cleaner" and will be recommending it to anyone looking for an engaging and enjoyable action story. And, will be reading more titles from this author soon.
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The Cleaner John Milton Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Mark Dawson David Thorpe Audible Studios Books Reviews
Mark Dawson's John Milton is a British government assassin who has burned out and leaves his job, With his superiors nervous about the secrets he knows and the damage he could do if he went public, he is targeted for elimination.
In the meantime, a simple act of kindness propels Milton into inner-city London, where he runs afoul of a drug gang led by a hip-hop Fagin.
With a fellow assassin on his trail, and Milton steadily becoming active in shutting the drug ring down, at some point, the two ends will converge.
Dawson is a skillful writer who provides an authentic sense of milieu to both the machinations of the government and a drug-fueled, violent sub-culture where the chief ambition is to be respected and rich. The juxtaposition of Milton's former lifestyle and this street anarchy is subtle, but effective.
The Cleaner marks Dawson as one of the best thriller writers in the marketplace, and John Milton as a hero to watch for expectantly for the foreseeable future.
I bought this book less than two weeks ago and since then I have read it and an additional eight novels in the John Milton series and all three of the novels in the Beatrix Rose series. I started on the first of the Isabella Rose series today. I an generally not an obsessive reader, but since these novels are either free for Prime members or very cheap if you buy the three-packs, it's been like buying a giant bucket of popcorn at the movies and, since you bought the giant bucket, you can get a refill for free if you finish it. Reading Dawson's novels is just like eating popcorn. It's almost like you can't help keep eating and all of a sudden you've gone through a frightening amount.
Other reviewers have compared him to Lee Child and the Reacher series. I agree with the comparison. The books are similar mindless action adventure novels involving justice seeking protagonists, but Dawson is a better writer. His prose is better than Child's and his characters are more interesting and better drawn. His locations are more deftly described and his characters travel the world killing people, There is a fair amount of moral ambiguity entailed. They're supposed to be good guys, but they seem to end up killing a lot of innocent bystanders. Fortunately, it's popcorn.
Dawson is English and he commits an occasional howler when he uses a United States setting on one instance he placed Bridgehampton in upstate New York, which leads one to believe he has never been in the Hamptons. Still, the books have a fair feeling of verisimilitude and they are extraordinarily entertaining. As good as it gets in the mindless action genre and the price is right.
Dawson is an exceptional writer, never boring, but I'm surprised The Cleaner was written in 2016 as I felt it didn't match his other novels. Main character Milton makes some glaring mistakes well into the story, and human as he may be, his choices have such devastating results that it detracts from the main characters and overall result. In fact, so disappointing at times that I had to put the novel down for quite a rest. Eventually finishing the read, it also didn't have the feeling of a satisfactory ending. If this was the first novel I had read by Dawson, I likely would not have read more of his material which would be a shame, as he usually leaves the reader with a measure of satisfaction through Milton's choices and actions.
This is the first full-length book in the John Milton series, and it is the first book I have read in the series. John Milton is personified as a bad^ass assassin that seeks to help people with their problems in order to atone for the things he has done in his past. In this book we actually don't learn very much about what it is he is running from, but that he has had enough of "Group 15" [an MI5 type of outfit] and has unofficially retired from the group without permission to go his own way and find himself. The Group's leader "Control" sets out to keep an eye on John by assigning "Agent 12" to keep tabs on Milton, who has fallen in with a single mother and her fifteen year old son Elijah. The boy Elijah, who becomes involved with a gang running the area known as LFB, decide that to initiate the boy, he has to kill a rival gang leader in order to prove he is worthy. Milton steps in to intervene, and the action gets taken up twenty notches. You will have to read the rest to fins out how it ends.
My Take on this book
I read a lot of fiction books, maybe 9-10 books a month. about half those I don't finish. The plot becomes too complicated, characters do stupid things or nothing at all, or the action is slow to progress. "The Cleaner" has none of those issues. The story opens with a hard-hitting scene of John Milton taking out two people with a sniper rifle at the beginning and sparing a twelve year old boy as a witness. From there the plot moves along quite rapidly and, because there are less than ten characters to follow throughout the book, readers can enjoy the journey without having to recall who was who even if you put the book down for several days. Try that with game of Thrones and you'll be totally lost.
The atmosphere of the book and story is great; the characters are well-thought out and they do exactly what they are supposed to. You either love them or hate them. The plot has a nice flow to it and with a story line that is quite "clean" and easy to follow, it makes for an enjoyable read that has you quickly flipping [scrolling] to the next chapter. Although the character Milton does have a bit of a soft spot and a conscience, it fits well into the story as he is trying to redeem himself; and then in the end, when he is forced to act, he does and with measurable violence that readers would be expecting.
I'm very impressed with "The Cleaner" and will be recommending it to anyone looking for an engaging and enjoyable action story. And, will be reading more titles from this author soon.
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