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Reed Montgomery, Book 1

By: Logan Ryles

Narrated by: Gary Bennett

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Reed Montgomery would give anything to stop killing.

A series of bad choices have led him into a life as an indentured assassin, where his bosses call the shots and he takes them—or else. Only the promise of eventual emancipation keeps him going, but in the criminal underworld, nothing is cheap.

With one last kill standing between himself and freedom, Reed becomes involved with Banks, a young singer in the city. There's only one thing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose . . . a man with everything to lose.

Reed Montgomery is the criminal underworld's best killer. They pick the target. He picks the method. Then the job gets done—always.

Until he meets Banks, a beautiful singer from a local bar, and the goddaughter of his next target. Suddenly, nothing is simple. Completing the kill will cost him everything with her, but Reed's bosses aren't interested in love, and they don't tolerate failure.

The ultimatum is simple: Execute the target, or you become the target. Reed is thinking of a third option. An option where they wish they'd never been born. They should have let him walk while they had the chance.

©2019 Logan Ryles (P)2022 Tantor

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Logan Ryles does it again!!! Masterful storytelling. Great narration. About to start next book in the series.

Good, solid. Narrator not annoying. MC likeable

This was a book I started to read in print and never finished. But being an audiobook that required less attention allowed me to get farther into it until I got invested in the story.
Despite being a contract killer, the MC is likeable. It’s predictable in some ways, but in ways I like. It’s just emotional enough to make the characters real.
Narrator is tough to grade. A bit too sleepy and monotone for this type of book. But I like his voice, it’s soothing. So I turned this into a bedtime story— an effective compromise.
If you listened with faster playback it might help that.
My one concern for this series is that if you read the synopsis for each book, they all sound like the same book- same unresolved storyline - he “declares war on the underworld, those that betrayed him, they will regret it”
So we will see