Bombs hidden across Denver. A race against time to defuse them. Will she die saving the city, or will she live to see it go up in smoke?Elite assassin Ember Clarke has a lot to atone for in this life. And she knows the killer after her this week has plenty to be angry about. So angry, in fact, he’s planted a bomb in Denver, and it’s set to detonate within hours.Ember scrambles to save innocent … scrambles to save innocent lives from becoming collateral damage in an assassins’ war. But the biggest shock of all comes when Ember learns this bomber has several more ready to detonate.
Can Ember find the hidden bombs and defuse them, or will the Mile High City’s citizens pay the ultimate price?
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Vendetta Target is the fifth book in the pulse-pounding Six Assassins crime and action thriller series. If you like heroes with secrets, shocking reveals, and pages so exciting they almost turn themselves, you’ll love Jim Heskett’s and Nick Thacker’s epic six-part tale.
From Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Authors Jim Heskett and Nick Thacker, authors of the well-loved Harvey Bennett Thrillers series, comes a brand-new thriller series, for fans of Harlan Coben, Stieg Larsson, and Vince Flynn.
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Vendetta Target – a review by Rosemary Kenny
*slight spoilers*
…and breathe!! That’s right, you may just forget to, as Vendetta Target (book 5 of 6), like all the other wonderful action-packed spy thrillers, in Jim Heskett and Nick Thacker’s outstanding 6 Assassins series, is such a very amazingly, breathtakingly tense and gritty novel – to such a degree that you’ll look at the cliffhanger on the last page in shock and disbelief!
Can ‘Ember Clarke’ survive for just two more weeks, (amid barrages of bombs, bullets and knives, that seem to appear out of nowhere), to get herself free of the official, (yet perversely applied) DAC deadly ‘black spot’/trial by combat contract, that’s been nefariously put on her?
Who among her colleagues and loved ones will survive the association with our heroine and help her bring about a miraculous HEA, for both Ember and the Boulder branch of the Denver Assassins Club she ‘left’ the FBI to infiltrate?
Get your copy of Vendetta Target, (and the preceding 4 books) to enjoy the most riveting and exciting espionage/overcoming the odds/dynamic novels you’ll read this year, (ahead of Book 6, Final Target) to see where this life-changing game of deadly cat-and-mouse, dramatic series of plot and counter-plot, love, betrayal, truth, lies and the gray area in between, will end.
Another 5-star winner for Nick Thacker & Jim Heskett – guaranteed!
DO NOT MISS IT AT ANY COST!!
First and foremost this series must be read in order. I must congratulate the Jim Heskett and Nick Thacker for giving me a couple of surprises I did not see coming, this does not happen often. The surprises did not shock me and one was kind of sad. I can tell you Final Target is going to be crazy. There is action, lots of blood and a bunch of crazy. In my opinion who set Ember up was answered, which is who I thought, I just couldn’t figure out how, now I know. I’m not sure how the Zach, Thomas and lab storyline fits in, other than a way to pull Ember’s attention along with everything else going on. In my opinion Jim Heskett and Nick Thacker do a good job keeping things straight but yet chaotic. Bam is annoying and I couldn’t wait for his demise. In my opinion Vendetta Target is a real page turner full of mystery, action and politics. Jim Heskett and Nick Thacker did not disappoint me. In my opinion if you have read the first four books this is a good continuation for the series. I read on Kindle Unlimited.
Ember has made it this far, will she keep living through this book? Keep reading to find out! She is tackling a bomber this book and the action never slows down. I love this series, I really don’t want it to end.
I received an advanced reader copy but the opinions and review are my own honest comments.
I received a review copy from the author at my request and this is my honest opinion. This is the best of the Ember Clark series so far. It grabbed me from the first page until the very last. If there weren’t other people in my house who needed to be fed I would not have moved from the couch until it was completed. The surprises and curveballs just keep coming!! I didn’t think the previous 4 books could be beaten, but this one did it. I’m not sure how I’ll get through number six. I may need to double up on my blood pressure medicine now!! Don’t miss out on this series. It is unbeatable!!!!!
Vendetta Target (Six Assassins #5), my thirty-fourth read from author Jim Heskett. Another excellent read, and I anticipate a good series, that you can’t wait to turn the next page and read more. The suspense has been building for five books, next up, Final Target (Six Assassins #6), the conclusion. I was given a Kindle copy of this book & am voluntarily reviewing it. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).
I have to admit that out of the the books in the series I’ve read, which is all of them, I liked this one the least. It was a powerhouse of a story for sure and still a solid five star read, especially at the end, but it was very different from the others.
Yes, Ember is still trying to outrun her assassin, but she has face-to-face confrontations with him when she could’ve killed him easily or he could’ve killed her, but he chose to string her along by threatening to kill innocent people with bombs. If you’ve read any of this series, which really needs to be read in order, you know that Ember doesn’t kill people unless they really deserve it. She’s got a moral code that doesn’t allow for innocents to be murdered and it turns her into a protector more than a cold-blooded assassin. She’s got a sense of right and wrong that continues to surprise me.
This week, she’s dealing with a pot-smoking stoner named Bam. He’s scrawny and doesn’t look like anything more than a kid, but he’s got his own superpower and manipulation isn’t it. He’s cold, ruthless, and it seems that all he really cares about is getting that next high. But don’t underestimate him. I felt he lost track of his mission, probably because he couldn’t get his face out of a bong and had too much time to think when he wasn’t able to think clearly. Sometimes I can feel something positive for the villains in stories, but not this one. I wanted to punch him in the face. But what good would it do? He probably wouldn’t feel it anyway. He was so aggravating. But he is a good bad guy. He does it well.
So much is going on in this book. We’ve got Zach, then Zach and Ember, Layne Parrish, Serena Rojas, Isabel, Wellner, and that freak Marcus Lonsdale. The last quarter of this book was so fast and loaded with surprises, my head is still spinning. I literally gasped a few times and even yelled, “NO!” I wanted to shake the authors until their teeth rattled! Suffice it to say, sh*t just got real, folks.
It was a great book with great characters, twists and turns, and a huge surprise at the end.
Just as a side note, not all characters are meant to be liked. Some are meant to be loved, feared, or even hated. The fact that Bam irritated me is a good sign because he drew out an emotion, which means he was a well-developed character. All of the characters in this series are.
This series MUST be read in order.
In book five of the six book series we have some things come together and some new developments. The situation in DAC is heating up more. Poor Ember is starting to have a harder time dealing with what is happening. Don’t start reading if you have a lot of things to do because you will not be able to put it down till finished. Now I’m waiting for book six with the final conclusions.