See previous Thor reviews. This early Thor effort is really good but his efforts diminish over time.

Not a bad series at all.. good reading!

An excellent thriller

This book as better than the first Scot Horvath one, The Lions of Lucerne. A fast action, can’t-put-it-down thriller with a very believable story. Ready to start the next one!

Good plot, not terribly well written though

Slightly better than the last one. Good adventure in Scott Harvath series.

You know that annoying work colleague that drives you nuts with endlessly tedious joking around? Ever worked with the sort of guy who would say "Can you get HBO on this thing?" when passing through an airport scanner or introduces himself as "The tooth fairy" in an attempt to look sardonically debonair? Ever wanted to read their adventures as an action hero? No. Neither have I. Why would you want to? They're the sort of people you go out of your way to avoid at all costs.

Scott Horvarth is that guy. He spends the novel rattling off a series of painfully unfunny quips which never inspire anything more jovial than a mirthless groan. Thor clearly wants us to find Horvarth hilarious but I was definitely empathizing with the other characters who weren't laughing (because they had "no sense of humour" apparently).

When he's not pumping out witless tedium (or dumping the cartoon woman he hooked up in the last novel to replace her with this version's cartoon love interest) Horvarth is on the trail of the world's least competent assassin, a vicious killer with "silver, almost black eyes" that he never thinks to cover with sunglasses or tinted contacts. Despite the fact that his eyes can easily be glimpsed while driving a speeding car in a typhoon, or from a distance in a smoke filled corridor, it never occurs to him to spend a few dollars hiding his most defining feature.

"The cliched adventures of the smug humour vacuum and the world's dumbest assassin" started to get irritating early on and fell away from there as Horvarth roamed the world annoying everyone he met, including the reader.

Amazing action, witty repartee, beautiful smart women, and a strong male lead. What more could you want? Sure some of it is a little over the top but who doesn’t love a good James Bond movie? Suspend reality and immerse yourself in the story. Very well done.

Entertaining read, but I somehow wish the end of the book was different as the ending is a little too melodramatic. Still a page turner though.
There are a lot of similarities between the hero in this book and Mitch Rapp in the Vynce Flynn books.

I thought the first book was a bit of a stretch for my ability to accept the author's premises. But right at the start of this book the author has the main character outside at night, in a hurricane, on the ground after having tackled someone and there is a sports car with its headlights on racing toward him and the hero notes the mercury like gray of the drivers eyes and he'll be able to identify them if he sees them again. REALLY?!?!? Are you &^%@$# kidding me? I read just about all kinds of books, but if the protagonist is going to do something like that, he had better be an elf or a superhero. I put the book down before Scott had a chance to read the dates on the coins in an adversary's pockets by closely observing the bulges in his pants.

I read the first book in the series, and it has a good plot with interesting characters, but the author kept jarring me out of the story line by having all the characters dance on the head of a pin to no plot advantage. I think the guy needs a better editor. I'm off to find a better author. Too bad I'm all done the Vince Flynn books.

Overall enjoyment: 1/1
Readability: 1/1
Immersion: 0.5/1
Characters: 1/1
Originality: 1/1

I wish there was an 'Eh' rating as that what I thought of 'Path of the Assassin' It kept me entertained for the few days it took to read but it hasn't made me anxious to read the next book in the Scot Havorth series.

Several times while reading I felt like I was reading something from Hollywood. I like action suspense but sometimes it is over done not really creating the suspense but more of a ho hum lets get to a new scene.

The book was way longer, like one other reviewer to many cities and for very little purpose. The Meg character was way too much Hollywood. I got tired of reading how beautiful she was.

The conflict between Harvath and Morrell was more like a couple of high school boys rather then two top highly trained special mission agents.

I'll read the next book in the series 'State of the Union' but not with an expectation as high nor as eager as I had for 'Path of the Assassin' to only be disappointed

This is the second one I’ve read. They are excellent. Highly suspenseful. Will continue reading this series.