The Intern's Handbook

A Thriller

By: Shane Kuhn

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

John Lago is a hitman. He has some rules for you. And he’s about to break every single one.

John Lago is a very bad guy. But he’s the very best at what he does. And what he does is infiltrate top-level companies and assassinate crooked executives while disguised as an intern.

Interns are invisible. That’s the secret behind HR, Inc., the elite “placement agency” that doubles as a network of assassins for hire who take down high-profile targets that wouldn’t be able to remember an intern’s name if their lives depended on it.

At the ripe old age of almost 25, John Lago is already New York City’s most successful hit man. He’s also an intern at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, clocking 80 hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all the grunt work actual employees are too lazy to do. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm’s heavily guarded partners. His internship provides the perfect cover, enabling him to gather intel and gain access to pull off a clean, untraceable hit.

Part confessional, part DIY manual, The Intern’s Handbook chronicles John’s final assignment, a twisted thrill ride in which he is pitted against the toughest - and sexiest - adversary he’s ever faced: Alice, an FBI agent assigned to take down the same law partner he’s been assigned to kill.

©2014 Shane Kuhn (P)2014 Simon & Schuster

Nicely written. With humor and excitement.

What made the experience of listening to The Intern's Handbook the most enjoyable?

The transition from character to character was done very nicely, the book was exciting and kept me wanting to read more. The storyline was very creative, I would hope that there would be a sequel to this book.

What does Pete Simonelli bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narration is what made the book even better.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I was most moved with the relationship that was developed between father and son.

Any additional comments?

Many thanks to the author for his creativity and sharing his talents with us.

A fast-paced good time

More like a screenplay than a novel, this one kept me listening at every opportunity. Little humor, little romance, lotsa violence. Like Chick Lit for the tougher set.

Eh

The story was fine. It's the narration that worked my nerves. It all just ran together, no inflection, no pause for effects.It was just short of monotone.

Meh

I like the narrator but the story was predictable. The ending was so so. The only part that I like was the movie reference.

Reads like a movie script

After reading The Intern's Handbook, I realized that I've read many books told from the assassin's point of view: the Dexter series, Tim Dorsey's Serge series, the Butcher Boy series by Thomas Perry. I was hoping to add this to that list of favorites, but it falls short. The book is more action scenes than story. How many times can someone be hit, kicked, shot and stabbed and then return to the office the next morning? As a movie, it will probably be a box office hit, as a book it doesn't quite make it.

Creative, captivating, and always keeps you guessing

LOVED this book! It was well written and well performed. I couldn't stop listening! Captivating.

Great story, lots of swearing

Very intriguing storyline with some neat twists at the end.
Quite a bit of bad language, though

Good read

Kept my interest. Read it twice... felt that it was a unique take on crime. Characters were likable and believable.

Totally unexpected

Very good story and delivery. I look forward to book two and the proposed movie deal

Highly recommend this series

I bought the sequel before I was even halfway through with this book. great action and great story. I highly recommend it!