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Title: The Silencer
Subtitle: The Silencer Series, Book 1
Author: Mike Ryan
Narrator: Brian Hutchison
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-29-17
Publisher: Mike Ryan
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:
CIA Black Ops agent John Smith is on his latest assignment in London. Little does he know, it'll also be his last. Barely surviving an attack on his life, Smith lays low for six months until he returns to the United States. His flight is strangely diverted to Philadelphia, where he meets a mysterious man who already knows about his past and recruits him for a job.
Needing a new identity, Smith becomes Michael Recker. He tries to prevent bad things from happening to innocent people while also interacting with several crime factions who are battling for control over the city. All the while, Recker begins to plan his revenge on Agent 17, who is responsible for a heinous act that Recker will never forget.

Members Reviews:
Kind of a mixture of Mike Hammer, Person of Interest and Denzel's the Equalizer
As far as protagonists go, Mike Wrecker is a throwback. The thought of purchasing women's undergarments for a friend in hiding makes him cringe but a triple-tap in the chest of a bad guy, while not something he relishes, is no big deal. Author Mike Ryan rolls out his black ops anti-hero in the first of the Wrecker series with his origin story. Wrecker, not his real name, is set up on an assignment engineered by his CIA handlers to eliminate him. He'd been deemed radioactive. For what reason, he doesn't know. But Wrecker is a survivor, kills his would-be assassins and goes into hiding. But collateral damage haunts him. Ryan spends quite a bit of the narrative in Wrecker's head, explaining how he interprets things. He's a killer, and a good one. But he's got distinct set of values. He's a protector. After six months in hiding, Wrecker emerges, revenge on his mind. He'd been shot. But rather than intercept his former colleagues and have it out, he's taken aside by a fellow who calls himself David Jones. Jones, a former NSA employee, has a proposition: "Work for me and help people who need help." Jones has piggybacked a way to sift NSA data to find regular people who need help. With Wrecker he hopes to prevent murders, rapes and other unsavory acts. Wrecker's intrigued and joins up. And the fun starts. OK. So it all reminded me of "Person of Interest," created by Jonathon Nolan and starring Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson with Wrecker as Caviezel's character and Jones as Emerson's. And even after reading the first five novels in the series, I still think so. However, that's where it ends. Wrecker's his own guy with his own demons and his own repressed desires. He wants a normal life, but he's hunted by the CIA. Only his association with Jones and his newfound role as the Silencer, a guy who does good without requiring anything in return, keeps him under the radar. At least initially. After consuming this, I read four more of the books like I was plowing through Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels. And there are some grammar flubs and odd misused words, but generally Ryan conveys a hard-edged narrative about a hero who gets the job done.

Silencer
Enjoyed reading this. Love good guys win, bad guys lose kind of books. Look forward to more books with these characters. Reminds me of a tv show I also really liked

A good read, even with some writing issues
A good read, but Ryan needs a primer in English grammar and writing style.