The Perfect Assassin
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Ratings7
Average rating3.6
Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor. Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen, and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been. To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew : Do right to all, and wrong to no one.
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Lol this book man...a prime example of why James Patterson is a hack.
First of all, the plot is completely ripped from the Black Widow movie. A girl is taken from her real family as an infant to a school in Russia where she and other kids are trained to be killer assassins, but eventually she escapes, however she also eventually decides to return to the school to end it for good and free the kids still training there, and to do this she needs the help of her superhumanly strong friend.
Like?? How blatant can you be...
Admittedly I did take some liberties with the superhuman friend part, which is probably the biggest area of difference from the movie. She kidnaps this college nerd professor who she then somehow trains into being a literal Superman in 6 months. Huge suspension of disbelief required on that.. Its hand waved a little by saying his great grandfather had some experiment done to him so his genes are like exceptional or something. And his great grandfather's names? Clark and Cal, LOLL. Still trying to decide if this was superman fanfiction, captain america fanfiction, or black widow fanfiction.
Anyways with disbelief fully suspended it was still a generally fun read because I'm a sucker for comic bookesque stories so there's that.
Series
76 primary booksDoc Savage (publication order; no omnibus) is a 76-book series with 76 primary works first released in 1933 with contributions by Lester Dent, Harold A. Davis, and 10 others.
Series
2 primary booksDoc Savage Thrillers is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by James Patterson and Brian Sitts.
