End As An Assassin – review by Nik Morton, author
Lex Lander has created an intriguing anti-hero in André Warner, manhunter, assassin for hire, and has the knack of creating believable characters, immersing them in real places where he seems very knowledgeable. His knowledge also stretches to cars and guns.
Warner wants to retire and this is to be his last job. He has been given a new target to kill. One rain-sodden night, crime boss Fabrice Tillou is surprised when Warner confronts him; it will be a clean kill. Unfortunately, it isn’t – because Tillou’s mistress interrupts…
From that moment on, Warner’s future is highly uncertain.
Where the fair sex is concerned he’s cold, calculating, and predatory, an attitude that can be traced to the loss of his wife, Marion. He’s surprised to find that his heart can be still be stirred; and perhaps his brief encounter with a divorcee in distress named Georgina will prove it. Could this new love be the one? To end his career as an assassin? Life’s not that easy, or that kind, it seems.
Warner is a rounded creation, and gradually evokes your sympathy as he becomes entangled in events that threaten to crush him.
There’s sex, violence and death aplenty. So be warned.