If the government needs someone eliminated cleanly, leaving no evidence behind, John Milton is the one they turn to. Milton is trained killer, but after ten years and 100 confirmed kills, he wants to move on with his life. Trouble is, the people he works for won’t let someone like him simply retire; they want him dead. When Milton is presented with an opportunity to make amends for some of the destruction he has left in his wake he jumps at the chance, helping a single mother--Sharon--in her attempts to save her son Elijah from the streets and from the London Field Boys, a gang known simply as LFB. Soon Milton finds his previous life on a collision course with his new life, putting his work with Elijah in some dangerous crosshairs.
The Cleaner is the first in the John Milton series, and it is a pretty decent start. There was some entertaining action and events amongst the characters, who themselves are rather enjoyable and realistic; they are people that you can root for, or against as the case may be, while hoping that everything can work out for them. I like the setup of the novel and the way the events are presented. The chapters are on the shorter side and they follow multiple characters, creating a fast-paced and suspenseful novel that at times was hard to put down. The one thing I wasn’t a fan of is the ending, which leaves many things unconcluded and unresolved, but I wouldn’t necessarily define it as a cliffhanger; there were too many things left up in the air for my taste, even within a series.
The Cleaner is an entertaining novel with thrilling characters; if you enjoy novels with action-packed pages, I recommend The Cleaner, available now.
Thank you to BookishFirst and Welback Publishing Group for gifting me a copy of The Cleaner by Mark Dawson, given in exchange for an honest review; all opinions are my own.
The Cleaner is the first in the John Milton series, and it is a pretty decent start. There was some entertaining action and events amongst the characters, who themselves are rather enjoyable and realistic; they are people that you can root for, or against as the case may be, while hoping that everything can work out for them. I like the setup of the novel and the way the events are presented. The chapters are on the shorter side and they follow multiple characters, creating a fast-paced and suspenseful novel that at times was hard to put down. The one thing I wasn’t a fan of is the ending, which leaves many things unconcluded and unresolved, but I wouldn’t necessarily define it as a cliffhanger; there were too many things left up in the air for my taste, even within a series.
The Cleaner is an entertaining novel with thrilling characters; if you enjoy novels with action-packed pages, I recommend The Cleaner, available now.
Thank you to BookishFirst and Welback Publishing Group for gifting me a copy of The Cleaner by Mark Dawson, given in exchange for an honest review; all opinions are my own.