Product Description
Publishers Weekly says: “A slick, darkly comic bad male vs. Bad male crime drama…an expertly choreographed genocide dance showcasing Maxim’s storytelling strengths: farce, blisteringly paced action, and memorably rare characters.
At age 34, Adam Whistler wants out. But a use he achieved for his supervision is not a kind they let we travel divided from.
To safeguard his continued good health, Whistler has “borrowed” critical papers from his boss, Felix Aubrey, a dangerous brute and a really bad male to cross. But so is Adam Whistler, who schooled a murdering qualification good underneath a origin of his father. Now, with a ticking time explosve on his hands, Whistler has been expel into a maelstrom of genocide and chaos. His continued existence might good count on a organisation of assassins related to a mythological Paul Bannerman, as good as his really possess defender angel.
His peaceful and pleasing lover, Claudia – clinically passed after being shot by Aubrey’s hired guns – has been sent back, she believes, by a storied “white light” to strengthen him. Whistler doubts it, of course, She does not. And she has a talents and powers to infer it.
Product Details
- Published on: 2011-01-11
- Released on: 2011-01-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Adam Whistler can't remember how many people he's killed, though he's such a good immature male a reader isn't nervous by his ghastly past. Besides, a killings were legal, arrange of. They were authorised by a sovereign drug potentate and his minions, generally Adam's boss, Felix Aubrey, who incited a government's anti-drug damage laws into a sugar pot that honeyed his possess bank comment and those of his distinguished friends, including many in a radical wing of a eremite right. But as John R. Maxim's satirical poser opens, Adam's depressed in love, and his deepening event with Claudia, a immature lady whose near-death knowledge assured her she's been allocated his defender angel, becomes a block of this taut, humorous appendage of Maxim's renouned Bannerman series.
Adam's father wants him to come into a family organisation as a match sneaking in a shadows of multinational business. But initial he has to get Adam out from underneath his enemies, generally Aubrey, whose bill (containing a annals of his bootleg search-and-seizure scam) Adam sequestered as word when he quit Aubrey's employ. The elder Whistler sends Adam and Claudia on a year-long sailing sabbatical to censor him from Aubrey's gang. But an assassination tract hatched by a Reconstructionists, a squad of eremite zealots tranquil by Aubrey, brings Adam and Claudia behind into a eye of a storm. Adam has a integrate of absolute weapons on his side: Claudia, who might not be an angel though really has acquired some celestial powers given her brush with death, and a Bannerman operatives, whose skills and strategies will be informed to Maxim's fans. The author's tongue is so resolutely planted in his impertinence that a joke might be mislaid on some readers, though they'll find copiousness of action, glorious pacing, and picaresque characters to keep them enthralled. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
Except for himself and even he doesn't seem all that certain no one knows accurately how many people Adam Whistler has killed. Now, however, during age 34, Whistler, a star of Maxim's slick, darkly comic bad male vs. bad male crime drama, is overpowering of all a agreement hits. Besides, he thinks a lot of his victims are being killed so his employer, an problematic arm of a U.S. government, can seize their homes, boats, cars, etc. all underneath item damage laws meant for drug dealers. But it's not so easy to simply travel divided from such jobs. Whistler's boss, Felix Aubry, isn't penetrating on carrying his operatives erratic around lax once they've gotten in so deep. Whistler leaves a business nonetheless, cruising a universe in a vessel with his pleasing girlfriend, Claudia, though he is nervous with his new life. Claudia, however, has recently come by a near-death knowledge and seems to possess a sixth clarity for danger: she assures Whistler that she's his defender angel. In fact, she does save his life several times via their travels, nonetheless when a span cruise from Antigua and wharf in Hilton Head, a attacks get some-more serious, and Whistler has to tumble behind on his aged murdering ways. The extended finale, involving several players from a author's past books, is an expertly choreographed genocide dance showcasing Maxim's storytelling strengths: farce, blisteringly paced movement and memorably rare characters. (Mar.) Forecast: Maxim (Mosaic; a Bannerman series), who's been essay top-grade thrillers for some-more than dual decades, continues to be one of a form's best-kept secrets. He's in excellent figure here, and word-of-mouth should attract some-more of a constant readers he deserves.
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"An expertly choreographed genocide dance showcasing Maxim's storytelling strengths: farce, blisteringly paced movement and memorably rare characters." -- --Publisher's Weekly
"An expertly choreographed genocide dance showcasing Maxim's storytelling strengths: farce, blisteringly paced movement and memorably rare characters." -- --Publisher's Weekly
"Witty and interesting throughout: a happy spin-off from Maxim's successful Bannerman series." -- --Kirkus Reviews
"Witty and interesting throughout: a happy spin-off from Maxim's successful Bannerman series." -- --Kirkus Reviews
By John R. Maxim
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12 of 12 people found a following examination helpful.
He's Done It Again!
By Thomas K. Mackinney
For we John R. Maxim fans, he's finished it again with Whistler's Angel. Adam Whistler and his defender angel, Claudia lead a reader by a suspenseful and picturesque try to leave years of cloyed supervision use with an word process in a form of a deleterious bill purloined from his former boss.
Characters lapse from progressing novels primarily giving we a suspicion that a "old" JRM was behind though afterwards divulgence a "new" JRM with a expel of credentials players reflecting a small age, a small sensitivity though a same "help out a crony or family" opinion so good finished in his Bannerman series. Those readers smitten of Carla Benedict and Molly Farrell from progressing yarns will have a formidable time putting Whistler's Angel down.
JRM again brings his characters to Hilton Head, South Carolina where they brew with a internal race and means we to wish we lived down a travel or around a corner. The marina, finish with internal watering hole called Jump & Phil's and a barkeeper named Leslie will remind readers of another place and time and means them to consternation if there unequivocally is such a place and person(s) on Hilton Head?
The dialog in his latest novel reflects Maxim's extensive clarity of amusement and will keep we preoccupied from section to chapter. His unusual account ability will means a fan to go behind and examination JRM's other offerings and a initial time Maxim reader to haunt a bookstores. A good instance is his examination between Whistler's father and Claudia's mother, a singular relatives of his categorical characters:
"Want to marry me, Kate?" "Ask me again in dual years. That's if we haven't murdered we first." "Fair enough." "Will we let me redecorate? Add some tuches of my own?" "Ask me again in dual years."
I'll have a tough time watchful for a serve adventures of Whistler and his Angel.
7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Exciting espionafe thriller
By Harriet Klausner
Being a chip off a aged retard once felt good to Adam Whistler who followed his renowned father into a scary universe of growth operations. However, Adam no longer has a ambience for a work and simply wants to quit. The problem is no one in his line of work usually changes professions and lives prolonged adequate to acquire a opposite retirement. Adam needs a special kind of life insurance, that he negotiates by robbing ban papers about a activities of his nasty boss, Felix Aubrey.
However, in a center of his protecting documents, Adam finds himself holding something some-more ban and dangerous than usually a bit of teenager blackmailing flint he designed to use to keep his possess life safe. He turns to his mythological father who sends him to Claudia Geller for help. Aubrey starts a lethal diversion to recover a document, withdrawal Adam and association branch to a good Bannerman and his cohorts as allies in a fight between growth professionals.
Best offered author John R. Maxim stretches a limit acceptance levels of a adventurous tract by his readers and somehow his talent turns it into a fast-paced story line. The tract never slows down as Adam tries to assist himself from a business usually to land deeper inside a darkest cesspool. Felix seems too nasty to be tellurian nonetheless his machinations make a novel spin brazen so that a reader does not care. Throw in Bannerman's lapse even if he is not a star in this action-packed novel, thereby insuring that WHISTLER'S ANGEL is espionage during a stirring best.
Harriet Klausner
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
WOW!!!!!
By Ann Marie Rupe
All of we Maxim readers are going to need afew some-more spaces on your "favorite characters" list. The new players Mr. Maxim has brought to us in Whistler's Angel are each bit as noted as a aged favorites from progressing Maxim books. Adam and his crafty defender angel Claudia, Whistler's father, a Twins, all miraculous new characters. And how pleasant to run into some of a aged Bannerman friends. Thank we Mr. Maxim for bringing us adult to date with some of Bannerman's people. Was happy to hear that Paul and Susan now have a family. What do we Bannerman fans consider Lesko had to contend about that?? and can't we usually design a twins slipping behind a bar to give Billy a hand? Glad to see a Maxim "family" of characters enlarged. They will all get along usually fine. Can't wait to see them in destiny books. If we have never examination a Maxim try Whistler's Angel with acouple of warnings. Don't start it if we have other things we need to be doing since we will not be means to put it down and afterwards be prepared to make several trips to your nearest book store since one Maxim is never enough! You will wish to examination them all. My usually censure with Mr. Maxim is that he could never write quick adequate for me.
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