The Cleaner
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Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a small cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles’s electrifying debut novel, Quinn’s latest assignment will change everything, igniting a upsetting journey of violence, treachery, and revenge.
The job seemed simple enough: investigating a suspicious case of arson. But when a dead body turns up where it doesn’t belong–and Quinn’s handlers at “the Office” turn strangely silent–he knows he’s in over his head. With only a handful of clues, Quinn scrambles for take in, struggling to find out why a name wants him dead . . . and if it’s linked to a larger attempt to wipe out the Office.
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Quinn’s only hope may be Orlando, a woman from his past who’s reluctant to help but who may hold the key to solving the case. Suddenly the two are prying into ancient crimes, crisscrossing continents, struggling to stay alive long enough to unbury the truth. But as the hunt intensifies, Quinn is stunned by what he uncovers: a chilling secret . . . and a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy–with an nearly unimaginable goal.
Furiously paced, filled with superbly drawn characters and pitch-perfect dialogue, The Cleaner puts a powerful twist on all our expectations as it confirms Brett Battles’s place as one of the most exciting new talents in suspense fiction today.
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Save your time and money and go read something else. I would suggest Patriot Acys by Greg Rucka
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am not a fan of mystery or thrillers, but got an advanced readers copy at a book store when I worked there last year.
The plot is over the top, thinking its twists are smarter and more clever than they really are, the characters are forgettable — cliche and predictable, and the writing is loaded with terrible descriptions of the different global locales, shuddering dialogue and pointless details.
The reviewers who gush about this work are clearly shrilling for the book for one reason or another. I didn’t even try to give away my copy of the book, I recycled it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this predicated on reviews, it is now obvious these were done by Friends, Family tree and employees of the Publisher.
I gave up 50 pages from the end as it was so predictable as another “super hero” copy… it was a copy of so many mediocre prior paperbacks lacking heart or the ability to get me or anyone to care one way or another.
This was my largest error in 10 years……………
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
You get hooked with the first 20 pages. Appealing plot, excellent characters, and simple to get through.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book has a half-dozen glowing blurbs on the dustjacket.
I gave up 127 pages into this 353 page doorstop.
The plot is ludicrous and implausible. Jonathan Quinn is a “cleaner” for a secret Washington based organization known as “The Office”. Quinn’s task is to clean up, in a way, at scenes of crimes that are to disappear. The book opens with Quinn investigating a suspicious fire in Colorado. He successfully cons a few people into believing he is a name else. We are introduced to Quinn’s “apprentice”, the naive, bumbling Nate.
Of course at the crime scene they find THE BIG CLUE which is supposed to support the rest of the tale. It doesn’t.
Quinn returns to his home, which has the mandatory magnificient view of Los Angeles and a super-sophisticated security system which isn’t bright enough to detect an intruder until he is standing bottom a window ready to committ mayhem. But Quinn, of course, is a super-duper hero and manages to murder the defenseless intruder. Aha, but still larger things are afoot! “The Office” is about to suffer a “disruption” . . . successful individual attacks on a number of super-duper agents, all of whom are killed. (Say, didn’t something similar take place in “The Godfather”?) Quinn runs to Ho Chi Minh City, where his ex- mentor’s lover is . . . a woman Quinn wants for himself.
None of this works. Battles doesn’t write compelling prose and what he has written isn’t terribly well edited. Implausible events are linked together simply to provide the appearance of action.
In a world now populated by tens of millions of people who know computer equipment, Battles – who clearly doesn’t – attempts to use such equipment as a prop with ludicrous results. Probably because I am a technologist, I lost patience much sooner with this novel than others might. But Battles simply doesn’t know the equipment and insults persons of us who do.
By page 127, “The Cleaner” had bogged down in a vain attempt to make suspense. There is none: every event is predictable. The leader wants us to judge in this super-secret spy group “The Office” whose super-duper agents can’t keep themselves from being murdered in their own beds en masse.
The characters simply aren’t developed at all.
The dustjacket blurb has Jeffrey Deaver – who has written more than a few croppers of his own – proclaiming this “[a] brilliant and heart-pounding thriller”. I disagree. It’s dull and dull and hardly a thriller.
Jerry
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5