The Intern's Handbook: John Lago Thriller - Office Suspense Novel
The Intern's Handbook: John Lago Thriller - Office Suspense Novel
The Intern's Handbook: John Lago Thriller - Office Suspense Novel
The Intern's Handbook: John Lago Thriller - Office Suspense Novel

The Intern's Handbook: John Lago Thriller - Office Suspense Novel

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Interns are invisible. That’s the mantra behind HR, Inc., an elite “placement agency” that doubles as a network of assassins-for-hire, taking down high-profile executives who wouldn’t be able to remember an intern’s name if their lives depended on it.**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Best of the Year—Seattle Times JOHN LAGO IS A HITMAN. HE HAS SOME RULES FOR YOU. AND HE’ S ABOUT TO BREAK EVERY SINGLE ONE. John Lago is a very bad guy. But he’s the very best at what he does. And what he does is infiltrate top-level companies and assassinate crooked executives while disguised as an intern. Interns are invisible. That’s the secret behind HR, Inc., the elite “placement agency” that doubles as a network of assassins for hire who take down high-profile targets that wouldn’t be able to remember an intern’s name if their lives depended on it. At the ripe old age of almost twenty-five, John Lago is already New York City’s most successful hit man. He’s also an intern at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, clocking eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all the grunt work actual employees are too lazy to do. He was hired to assas­sinate one of the firm’s heavily guarded partners. His internship provides the perfect cover, enabling him to gather intel and gain access to pull off a clean, untraceable hit. Part confessional, part DIY manual, The Intern’s Handbook chronicles John’s final assignment, a twisted thrill ride in which he is pitted against the toughest—and sexiest—adversary he’s ever faced: Alice, an FBI agent assigned to take down the same law partner he’s been assigned to kill.

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Shane Kuhn delivers high-voltage entertainment in his debut novel The Intern's Handbook, a smart, punchy thriller that makes a brilliant addition to anyone's dude-lit library. In main character John Lago, Kuhn concocts a snarky combination of world-weary wisdom and brash, punkish bravado. Lago is a twenty-something hitman with nothing much to lose as he blends in and blasts through one final job before retirement. His first-person narration rolls face-forward (the whole book is a mock desk manual explaining the intricacies of assassination as a career choice) and addresses the reader as a fellow "intern" in the employ of HR, Inc. This device allows for some slick behind-the-curtain revelations of his motives and methods in a wickedly sarcastic first-person dialect. And the action scenes pulsate with urgency as Lago--also a devoted film buff--displays his singular acumen at dispensing his targets and reminisces prior take-downs, peppering his tales with fun cinematic references. He even works his way through a sharp-edged contemporary romance that balances out the shop talk, told largely through another clever literary device best left as a fun surprise. But an unexpected layer of this character that struck me most-- and which I hope strikes other readers just as much--was the self-recognition the author bestows upon his character in the midst of all the mayhem: at his core, John Lago is a grown-up child haunted by the loss of things he never had the opportunity to possess, understanding the world through a framework of brutality because his survival has demanded it of him. He knows all too well the toll his work has taken, and he's ready to move on from it by any means necessary. This well-delivered stroke humanizes the one-man death squad and gives resonance to his overriding quandary without coming across as forced or maudlin.If you're a fan of high-concept action flicks with a touch of humanity thrown in the mix for good measure, you've just found your next read. Fire it up.
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