Our assassin makes his way to London, where he’s targeted by another assassin who dies after she seduces him, which is another darkly twisted scene that explores his logically sociopathic mind.
This confrontation between Victor and Krieger, a german assassin almost as professional and coldly logical as Victor, surprisingly ends up with both of them surviving to meet again later in the book.
When Victor’s attacked by another assassin on the train after the kill, he realizes there’s more involved and someone he’s worked with has betrayed him. This masterfully written sequence sets the tone for the grimdark seriousness of our purely anti-heroic protagonist. Taking Victor’s advice, the espionage officer enjoys his last meal of unhealthily cooked steak and voluntarily chokes to death on it to avoid the disgraceful alternative. This opening sequence is one of the most darkly emotional pieces of writing I’ve come across recently, where the killer has a personal and open conversation with his target and lets his target have the choice in changing his method of execution. Victor starts the story on a train in Russia, hired for a job by the British SIS(MI6) to eliminate another SIS officer who’s compromised himself by working for the Chinese. Pieces of the anonymous, amoral, logical, and sociopathic protagonist’s past are explored indirectly in this book in ways ignored previously, but he’s still an enigma. The action is brutally gory at times, but also emotionally hard-hitting on a higher intensity in scenes where the kills avoid outright violence. Though the story is a low-key plot, this book hits big on the emotional side by having an extremely twisted story that focuses on the characters.
The brilliantly sociopathic assassin, Victor, is taken on his most gruesome and grimmest ride in A Time To Die by Tom Wood whose writing is beautifully visceral and gut-wrenching.
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