Book Description
Spanning more than thirty years, Assassins by Mike Bond traces an intelligence career shaped by evolving threats and unfinished consequences. The novel suggests that in covert warfare, no decision ever truly disappears.
Jack’s career as a CIA operative spans decades of covert conflict, where strategies evolve but consequences remain. Early involvement with local communities creates bonds that persist as political priorities shift and global threats emerge.
As intelligence operations intersect with terrorism and retaliation, Jack is drawn back into conflicts shaped by decisions made years earlier. Relationships, responsibility, and regret accumulate as each mission builds on the last. Assassins delivers a sweeping portrait of covert war, where no choice disappears and no one escapes unchanged.
Q&A
How did you research your book?
I don’t research my books, but write from my own memory of events.
Where do you get your ideas?
From my own past experiences, or from issues that concern me, like the danger of nuclear war. Or wars I have been in and I wish to expose how they happened, and who is responsible for all the deaths, sorrow, and destruction.
What helps you overcome writer’s block?
Never had it. Too many things to write about.
What’s your favorite compliment you’ve received as a writer?
Among many other critical praises, when BBC called me “The master of the existentialist thriller.”
Do you write every day? What’s your schedule?
I write when I want to.
Which author(s) most inspired you?
Hemingway – the greatest American writer of the 20th century. And Tolstoy, Gogol, Zola, Aristotle, Cicero, and many others.
What’s your go-to comfort food?
For writing — Gin or vodka.
If you could time-travel, where would you go?
Somewhere in our Paleolithic past, or among the Cheyenne or Sioux before the coming of Europeans.
What 3 books would you bring to a desert island?
If I were on a desert island I would be happy there and wouldn’t bother with books.
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MIKE BOND is the author of nearly a dozen bestselling novels and an ecologist, war and human rights journalist, award-winning poet, and international energy expert. His work spans more than thirty countries across seven continents, often drawn from firsthand experiences in remote, dangerous, and war-torn regions. His novels are praised worldwide for their intricate plots, vivid settings, and explosive pacing. His reporting has covered wars, revolutions, terrorism, and major environmental crises. Learn more at his website.
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