Contract to Kill

Nathan McBride, Book 5

By: Andrew Peterson

Narrated by: Dick Hill

When Toby Haynes witnesses a double murder - and suspects his boss, Tanner Mason, as the perpetrator of the crime - he does the only thing he can think of: He calls in Nathan McBride. CIA special ops veteran McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, respond to their friend's plea. As they launch a covert investigation into Mason, the security chief for one of the nation's leading private military contractors, they discover that not everything is as it appears.

Mason and his inner circle are leading a top-secret operation to tackle a wave of crime plaguing the US-Mexican border, and the murder may have been part of their complicated strategy - or part of a more menacing agenda. Soon McBride and Fontana find themselves engaged in a deadly game. With a powerful politician behind it all, stopping Mason could mean joining a secret war - with truly global stakes.

©2015 Andrew Peterson (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

I love this series.

I hope Andrew Peterson has started the next novel in this series. The next book should start with friends and family witnessing Holly and Nate exchanging marriage vows♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Bummed by Hypocritical Logic

If you could sum up Contract to Kill in three words, what would they be?

Fundamental Attribution Error

Would you recommend Contract to Kill to your friends? Why or why not?

It was ok. I was frustrated with the hypocrisy of the main characters in this book. When they learn that two men have been killed by members of a private security team, with almost no knowledge of the context, they determine that the men who did it must be evil and must be stopped - not just stopped, but taken out. Granted, the men did end up doing some pretty bad things, but at that point in the story, the main characters did not know enough to make that call. The bottom line is that they were ready to kill someone for doing something that they have done in every one of their stories. That's the rooster calling the hen cocky, and I was disappointed in the writer for it. For a while I wondered if Nathan and Harve would at some point realize their hypocrisy and experience an epiphany. Nope. The writer just seems to have fallen so in love with his characters that he became blind to this bias. The fundamental attribution error strikes again.

Some things just get better with time

Nathan McBride does not disappoint, he just keeps getting better and better. While Nathan becomes a more rounded character, when we need the old Nathan, he does not let us down.

Great read

Great line of books. I had the audio version..if I have a complaint it would be not differentiating from mason and nathen..sounded the same. During the narrative..I kept getting confused..

Great Story, Bad Narration. Fire Dick Hill.

What made the experience of listening to Contract to Kill the most enjoyable?

The Plot. The Story. Had to fight through the awful narration.

What other book might you compare Contract to Kill to and why?

any badass spy/assassin stuff for grownups.

What didn’t you like about Dick Hill’s performance?

Dick Hill can't do voices beyond the Gumshoe PI. He's terribly miscast. He makes all females and ethic characters sound mentally deficient. It is awful.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. Dick Hill makes my head want to explode.

Any additional comments?

Bronson Pinchot or someone similar would have been so much better.