Thursday, May 29, 2014

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn, 276 pages
Christa told me that I had to read this book, and I can now see why. The Intern's Handbook is very similar in tone, pacing, and in its disregard for nicety in language and behavior to one of the staff favs of a couple of years ago, Beat the Reaper.
This one is also told from the point of view of a trained assassin, but "John," our protagonist / narrator, has an organization, Human Resources, Inc., behind him, with a large cadre of capable young professionals at its disposal. HR Inc., trains young, bright, violent orphans in all manner of subtle (and not so subtle) mayhem. Their specialty seems to be corporate murder, since their young assassins usually  pose as interns in order to gain access to their intended targets.
There are some big-old plot holes, but disbelief is willingly suspended during this rapid and violent roller coaster of a thriller.
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