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The Accident Man

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by Tom Cain
John Lee
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Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain’s THE ACCIDENT MAN surprises the reader at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident. But then Carver is hired to carry out a job below a bridge in Paris. The date is August 31, 1997. Set up, betrayed, pursued by the very forces that hired him, Carver must execute his most daring feat yet.
A thriller of the grandest sort, THE ACCIDENT MAN races above and below the streets of Paris, across Europe, and by storms at sea. It is also a startling introduction to a hero engaged in the act of “moral violence.” With the dissolution of world powers, with everything and anything for sale, how does one justify death? Samuel Carver–a clouded man of determined action–will come to understand the prices to be paid.
You have never met a hero quite like Samuel Carver. You will never forget him.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Samuel Carver

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 19, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415947029
      • File size: 354336 KB
      • Duration: 12:18:11

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 12, 2007
      The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car’s principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he’s been told, undoubtedly dead. Moments later, Carver himself is on the run from a Russian thug. Only after escaping the Russian does Carver realize he’s caused the death of Princess Diana. Carver vows revenge on those who set him up. A number of spy organizations are involved as well as several intermediaries, all of whom Carver must work his way through before finding who’s behind the conspiracy. A likable hero and nicely detailed action help offset a predictable and at times overwrought romance between Carver and the Russian’s female accomplice. Hopefully, Cain will keep the mayhem and soft-pedal the love interest in his next Samuel Carver thriller.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      It's particularly hard to create an effective thriller surrounding an event as thoroughly examined as the death, in August 1997, of the most famous and photogenic woman in the world. Tom Cain has done it though, with conviction and power, imagining a who, a how, and a why of the car crash in a Paris tunnel that saddened the planet. John Lee's compressed and controlled delivery, coupled with his impressive ear and range as an actor, allows a complete suspension of disbelief as Samuel Carver, who was told by those well-bred people at MI5 that he was to assassinate a terrorist, discovers what he has actually done, a realization that is followed closely by the knowledge that his handlers have no intention of letting him live to tell the tale. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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