Blake's conspiracy angle is brilliant and believable at every level in King of Swords.įollowing closely on El Rey's heels, is veteran "narcotraficante" hunter Captain Romero Cruz, who has dedicated his life, at great personal cost, to dismantling what he sees as the greatest threat to Mexico's future.the drug cartels. Yes, a Russell Blake novel would not be complete, without the nefarious meddling of forces well beyond the scope of everyday Mexican life. The reader will be introduced to El Rey, the king of assassins, whose mysterious ways, and dramatic, unprecedented success as an assassin, has catapulted him to a legendary status on par with Carlos "The Jackal." It has also increased his contract fee to exorbitant levels, only affordable to the ruthless Mexican drug cartel leaders.and maybe a few omnipresent government agencies that we'll leave unnamed for now. Blake clearly draws on his own knowledge of the political and cultural climate in Mexico, to present a realistic and stark backdrop to a thriller in the fast-paced, intelligent tradition of Frederick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal." In King of Swords, the reader is taken on a journey through drug cartel ruled Mexico, where violence often trumps hard cash, as the dominant cultural currency. I know this sounds overly dramatic, but in reader-speak.this book kept me glued to the Kindle screen. With King of Swords, Russell Blake has clearly taken the best of his previous novels, and combined them into an honest, often brutal, heart stopping thriller, that left me gasping for air, and squirming on my couch. His previous thrillers have turned the headlines inside-out, with gritty, no-holds-barred, edge-of-your-seat plots. Russell Blake is no stranger to the thriller genre.
#I hope you brought enough swords king of heroes full#
This thriller is an excellent cat and mouse game full of gritty details. It is extremely well- written, full of nasty stuff, fast-paced (I think I said this many times), violent, enthralling…. Reading this book is like watching a Die Hard movie. Romero Cruz is the police captain on El Rey’s tail and with panoply of interesting side players adding to the thrill, we can only be smack into an exciting saga. El Rey, the main character is a cold blooded killer and assassin operating in Mexico who would work for both the cartels and the police depending upon the situation. The pacing is high-velocity I couldn’t help but to follow the tempo by furiously flipping the pages so captivated by the goings- on. The author wanted to highlight the psychological making of a monster and he perfectly achieved his goal in his storyline. Thousands of good and bad people die every year caught in violent confrontations. It captures the casual savagery of the ordinary men engaged in extraordinary brutality. This thriller is cranked up on steroids and has left me gasping and cringing more often than not. Russell’s inspiration kicked in, the fine line between is a little fuzzy. This thriller is definitely not for the fainthearted, it is a blend of facts and fiction and strange enough, we will never know where the truth ends and where Mr. In “King of Swords” we are taken on a violent journey through drug cartel of Mexico. This is one brutal and heart-stopping novel I read in a long time.
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