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A review by zare_i
Get Harry Ex by John Wagner
5.0
This book contains Button Man I, II and III.
Harry Ex is a former soldier and mercenary who unexpectedly ends up as a player (so called Button Man) in the Killing Game, game where assassins are pitted against each other by their handlers (aka Voices). Lots of money is circulating on the bets and Button Men are trying very hard to survive and make the other guy(s) pay.
Only thing is they do not count on Harry Ex. They treat him as an ordinary killer while he is much much more (I like when he says to his Voice controller "Do you know what kind of a man I am?", it reminds me of [b: Dorsai|263111|Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)|Gordon R. Dickson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389845085s/263111.jpg|2252902] short story in which one of the brothers Graeme tells to man who tried scheming against him something in line of "You think I am soldier, I am not. I am man of war").
Harry Ex does not like to have his actions controlled by others so he rebels and tries to leave the game which puts him into whole bunch of problems and he becomes target of choice for all other assassins.
Art is photo-realistic, grainy-like which seems to the thing in the 90's and might take some time to get accustomed to it. Nevertheless composition and the way story is presented to the reader is very movie-like.
Very interesting book, highly recommended to all action and thriller fans.
Harry Ex is a former soldier and mercenary who unexpectedly ends up as a player (so called Button Man) in the Killing Game, game where assassins are pitted against each other by their handlers (aka Voices). Lots of money is circulating on the bets and Button Men are trying very hard to survive and make the other guy(s) pay.
Only thing is they do not count on Harry Ex. They treat him as an ordinary killer while he is much much more (I like when he says to his Voice controller "Do you know what kind of a man I am?", it reminds me of [b: Dorsai|263111|Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)|Gordon R. Dickson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389845085s/263111.jpg|2252902] short story in which one of the brothers Graeme tells to man who tried scheming against him something in line of "You think I am soldier, I am not. I am man of war").
Harry Ex does not like to have his actions controlled by others so he rebels and tries to leave the game which puts him into whole bunch of problems and he becomes target of choice for all other assassins.
Art is photo-realistic, grainy-like which seems to the thing in the 90's and might take some time to get accustomed to it. Nevertheless composition and the way story is presented to the reader is very movie-like.
Very interesting book, highly recommended to all action and thriller fans.