The Asset, Shane Kuhn
The Asset, Shane Kuhn
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The Asset

Author: Shane Kuhn

Narrator: Pete Simonelli

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016


Synopsis

A private airport security contractor becomes a counterterrorism operative to prevent a terrorist attack in this “timely, edge-of-the-seat thriller” (Bookpage) from the author of the #1 internationally bestselling The Intern’s Handbook.

Kennedy—a private airport security contractor—knows more about airports than the head of the TSA, and he feels more comfortable in his British Airways Club World flatbed seat than in his own home. Haunted by the memory of his sister’s death on 9/11, Kennedy takes his job and the protection of the American people very seriously. So when he’s kidnapped and recruited into a CIA ghost operation known as Red Carpet, he jumps at the opportunity to become a civilian asset working with a team of some of the CIA’s best counterterrorism analysts and spec ops soldiers as they race against the clock to stop the greatest terrorist threat the United States will ever face.

With the same bold voice that earned him rave reviews for his previous novels, Shane Kuhn’s The Asset is an “exhilarating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) read with an “ultimate twist that makes readers’ jaws drop” (Kirkus Reviews).

About Shane Kuhn

Shane Kuhn is a writer, director, and producer with twenty years of experience working in feature films, documentaries, and advertising. He is a cofounder and executive board member of the Slamdance Film Festival, and a member of the Writer’s Guild of America. He lives in Colorado and works as Vice President of Creative Services for a San Francisco-based media and special events company. He is the author of The Asset, The Intern’s Handbook, bought for film by Sony Pictures, and Hostile Takeover, the second book in his John Lago intern-assassin thriller series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stuart on June 29, 2017

The Asset is a novel centred around large scale terrorism. There are whispers of an attack and after 9/11, the US are highly focused on quick and effective counter-terrorism tactics. Shane Kaun has given us a realistic vision of today’s airline security from technology to human behaviour. The Asset......more

Goodreads review by Jill on June 08, 2016

Wonderful espionage thriller. Page turner. Highly recommend for vacation reading, commuter reading, and travel reading. However, I read it during none of these times. Just couldn't put it down!......more

Goodreads review by Bent on June 15, 2016

I loved Shane Kuhn's refreshingly cool take on the hitman thriller, The Intern's Handbook (as well as its novella prequel, Casual Friday), starring the super cool, but not completely perfect John Lago. Even the cover art for that book was pretty amazing! Kuhn has put John Lago on (I hope only a temp......more

Goodreads review by Scott on December 30, 2016

Impossible action, poorly written Gah. TV show action sequences, written with the tension of a wet noodle. Idiotic, improbable, situations, unexplained plot holes, and our heroes surviving a nuclear explosion by diving in the water are a few of the problems in this novel. How much did the agent have......more

Goodreads review by Leslynn on April 17, 2016

Copy courtesy of NetGalley Fast-paced, action-packed thriller, with many twists in the plot -- Awesome read!......more