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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780451209320
ISBN number: 045120932X
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: January 06, 2004
Publishing house: Signet
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Sale Popularity Level: 24881
Studio: Signet
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The New York Times Bestseller by the author of The Confessor.
When the Good Saturday peace accords are shattered by three savage acts of terrorism, Northern Ireland is blown back into the depths of conflict. And after his father-in-law is nominated to become the new American ambassador to London, retired CIA agent Michael Osbourne is drawn back into the game. He soon discovers that his father-in-law is marked for execution. And that he himself is once again in the crosshairs of a killer known as October, one of the most merciless assassins the world has ever known...
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The Good Saturday agreement that promised to bring peace to the embattled Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland is jeopardized by a new paramiltary group bent on destroying the truce. Michael Osbourne, the hero of Silva's previous thriller, The Mark of the Assassin, is rerecruited by the CIA when Douglas Cannon--his father-in-law, a former senator, and the new ambassador to the Court of St. James--is targeted for death by the Ulster Freedom Brigade. Osbourne has long since given up on the spying game and is reluctant to be drawn back into it again. Then he discovers that the Brigade has shopped the contract on Senator Cannon to October, the assassin who narrowly missed killing Osbourne a few years ago but succeeded in murdering the woman he once loved. It's a good setup for a political thriller, with nonstop action that moves from Belfast to Armagh, New York to Washington, London to Mykonos. What really notches up the suspense is the double-dealing in the corridors of power, particularly the CIA and a secret organization called the Society--a nasty assemblage of politicos, spymasters, arms merchants, and killers bent on destabilizing nascent peacemaking efforts all over the globe. Down but not out at the conclusion of Silva's latest, the Society and Osbourne will likely be back for a return engagement the subsequent time warring factions endeavor to beat their swords. In fact, as the director of the Society says in the last chapter, 'The Kosovo Liberation Front would like our help: Gentlemen, we're back in business.' --Jane Adams
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This is the eight book that I have read by Silva and I have enjoyed all of them. In this book the action sequences were descriptive and vivid with an engaging plot but it was somewhat predictable. It was unusual in that one of the villains, an assassin, had some redeeming values that made him almost likable.
The inclusion of a malicious world organization that existed only to foment turmoil for its own financial benefit required suspension of your disbelief system. But the story did have an unexpected ending which I liked.
Author of al-Qaeda Strikes Again
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I liked Daniel Silva's "The Mark of the Assassin", so I expected I would like "The Marching Season" as much, and I wasn't disappointed. This is a sequel to the previous book, with the same main characters, including the title character of the very first book. At the end of "The Mark of the Assassin" you're told he was killed in a storm escaping his endeavor to kill the good guy. Anyone who's ever seen or read any mysteries knows that's a dead giveaway: the assassin's still alive, and of course at some point he gets his cross-hairs on our hero again.
I liked this book about as much as I liked "The Mark of the Assassin". Silva's a good writer in the Vince Flynn/Stuart Woods line of things. These books aren't literature, the plots (so far anyway) contain no surprises or twists you can't forsee, but they're reasonably well-written and the pages fly by you at a blistering pace. Good for a day or two at the beach.
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Daniel Silva keeps me reading!! The situation in Northern Ireland has always bothered me greatly and sadly. Perhaps the scariest part of this book is knowing that the 'situation' in N. I. never really has changed!
The Marching Season is a fast paced book, and you want to keep reading til you finish!! You just have to KNOW.......Is the Director of the CIA really rotten?? And how in the world could a person from MI6 be so very crooked??? Is Delaroche going to finally annilate Michael Osborne???
KEEP READING!!
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...is simply awful. That is awful, not awesome. God, what a stinker.
Technical details are shallow and/or missing, and the story is so laughable implausable, that for me being a Silva fan caused me to put this sad effort down and then return to it a half dozen times.
It is where silly meets dumb and provide for the least interesting characters possible. I found that I was migrating towards minor characters like real estate agents and canines rather than the main and secondary protagonists.
I am very glad that Mr.Silva's writing has improved in his later works. This one was, well,...painful.Worse. It was boring.
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It takes a great writer to entice me to buy all of their books. I bought all of Silva's books after completing "Mark of the Assassin."
He weaves a lot of fact, including history, into his tales. Thus making them more credible and worthwhile from a learning perspective.
I find the "Society" to be quite fascinating as I am intrigued by factual conspiracies. Though Silva's "Society" is fictional, there is something in the real world with several similarities. I would sure like to know Silva's thoughts on what is fact and what is fiction.
I'm surprised that some movies have not been produced based on these fine yarns.
Sorry I don't always give my perspective on what the story was. Almost everyone else does that, as well as all book jackets. Sometimes it seems repetitive to see dozens of readers recapitulate the story (this one deals with the centuries old problem of terrorism in Ireland). Now I know why England has so many bloody security cameras.
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