• The Assassin

  • An Isabella Rose Thriller, Book 4
  • By: Mark Dawson
  • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
  • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (256 ratings)

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The Assassin

By: Mark Dawson
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
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Publisher's summary

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, is the most dangerous city in the world. And when a mission to break the local cartel’s grip goes wrong, Isabella Rose, the Angel, finds herself on the wrong side of prison bars. Fearing the worst, Isabella plays her only remaining card...

British agent Vivian Bloom is determined to be the first to reach her, certain she will lead him to other operatives he’s under pressure to hunt down. But US agents are circling too. And with the shadowy Prometheus group pulling the strings, Isabella knows that she and her mentor, the Asset, are living on borrowed time…

The Assassin is the fourth part in a continuing story involving Isabella Rose that also includes Act I: The Angel, Act II: The Asset and Act III: The Agent.

©2018 Mark Dawson (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

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Isabella Rose Book 4

Napoleon Ryan is an outstanding narrator but his voice is simply wrong, wrong, wrong for this series mostly about a 16 year old girl and her female friend.

THE ASSASSIN is Book 4 in the series with protagonist Isabella Rose, daughter of now deceased British espionage agent Beatrix Rose, being 16 years old assassin. The plot delves off into medically and scientifically impossible situations that go into the area of fantasy rather than espionage. I am through with this series.

I am a fan of author Mark Dawson. I have listened to all of his audio books in this series, the Beatrix Rose series, the Soho Noir series, and the John Milton series and I have rated almost all of the 32 books 4 or 5 stars.

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Hooked on lame series

First off the narrator is mediocre at best...does horrible on the female voices. Secondly, Dawson again fills his novel with unnecessary street names, turns, scenic and weaponry description that I'm able to multi task while listening and not miss any of the story line. Having said that, when the author does address the subject matter of the book it's really well written with plenty of suspense and action to the plot. Isabella is gaining traction as an assassin and was glad to see Pope reimerg in the thick of things; sans his wife and family. That's another part of the story that irritated me as Pope's wife was portrayed as an unfeeling unappreciative woman who didn't care about him or what he went thru to save his family. Anyway, as usual I will be waiting on the follow-up book in this series.

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I love this series. I love Mark Dawson.

BUT....this was THE worst narration I have ever heard. And I have listened to 60-70 books per year for 10 years!

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Terrible narration

Love Mark Dawson's writing as usual, but the narration is so bad. Cartoonist and unrealistic.

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Thrilling and outstanding!

The writing is fantastic and the narrator is so good! On to the last book in the series!

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Another winner!!

I love this series. It's full of espionage and spycraft. Pretty heavy on the violence, but I've learned alot about self defense! Narration is good (albeit a bit gothic), and the varying locations are spectacular. Highly recommend.

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Don't care for the narrator

The story was good but I stopped listening to the book twice because the narrator was annoying.

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Assassin's Journey

Excellent, action-packed and surprising twists. Can't wait until the next installment. Isabella and Pope are a great team.

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Awful narration

I really enjoy reading those books but the narration and emphasis on every third word is awful. Funny accents as well

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Fantastic narrator for a fantastic story.

Napoleon Ryan once again out does himself with an absolutely laudatory performance of the assassin.

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