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A review by catherine_t
The Cleaner by Brett Battles
3.0
Jonathan Quinn is a cleaner: he goes in after a secret operation and ties up the loose ends, makes it look as if nothing ever happened. He's a freelancer, but most of his work comes from a shadowy (possibly governmental) organization known only as The Office. His contact at The Office, Peter, sends him to Colorado to clean up after a fire that killed an asset. What Quinn turns up, though, leads him halfway around the world in a race against time.
I'm kind of on the fence about this book. I'd heard good things about it from readers whose opinion I respect, but especially towards the end, I found things that pulled me out of the story: unbelievable twists, a hackneyed reveal, and at least one poorly constructed sentence. I spent the last third of the book rolling my eyes: "Seriously?" Maybe I've read too many thrillers; maybe I haven't read enough, but by the end, I really just wanted it to be over. Still, I was intrigued enough by the characters that I might read the next in the series, so Battles had at least accomplished that.
I'm kind of on the fence about this book. I'd heard good things about it from readers whose opinion I respect, but especially towards the end, I found things that pulled me out of the story: unbelievable twists, a hackneyed reveal, and at least one poorly constructed sentence. I spent the last third of the book rolling my eyes: "Seriously?" Maybe I've read too many thrillers; maybe I haven't read enough, but by the end, I really just wanted it to be over. Still, I was intrigued enough by the characters that I might read the next in the series, so Battles had at least accomplished that.