A quickly-paced story of intrigue, action, and assassins. If you're looking for a thriller to while away a weekend or evening, then this should suit. Entertaining premise, interesting characters, and well-plotted. A fun read.

Six assassins and a couple of good guys (if a bit questionable) are meeting and fighting in the world adjusted to violence. Their aim is: 1. to stay alive; 2. to find the pieces of an ancient tablet - or is it?

This novel is the second installment in the Judd Ryder & Eva Blake series, but can be read as a standalone novel.

There were 6 of them once at the same place, claiming their reward for the big "wet work" in the post-Saddam Iraq. But the momentum went bad and their claim - a limestone ancient tablet - got broken. Every of them took some pieces and then had continued in their "normal life". But now somebody is contacting them - and killing them. Or are they killing each other?
Former military spy Judd Ryder and the CIA trainee Eva Blake have got entangled into that web of lies and killing somehow - and they need to see the situation to its end, if for nothing else, than to get their good reputation back. And, of course, to stay alive.

This is quick, unchallenging reads, suitable when you need some drifting away from your normal, boring day into the seemingly more exciting world of swift&smart assassins.
It has certain movie feel - the kind you go to get some pure entertainment, without the need to think too much. Eva, Judd and all of the other cool killer guys certainly feel like the movie characters!
Of course, when one starts to think about the plot, there are some loopholes there. Like the lazy CIA or too easy killing of the cunning old-timers. And, of course, if you are looking for the normal human compassion, you are in the wrong kind of movie. I, for one, certainly disapprove of glorifying the killers. But I have been here not for Dostoyevsky, but for a solid, unassuming thriller - and this I got.