Carver is the fifth novel of the Samuel Carver series by English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 thriller writer, Tom Cain

Tom Cain (author)

David Thomas , better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels based around the fictional character Samuel Carver.-Biography:...

, released on 18th August 2011 through Bantam Press

Bantam Press

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Plot

Subsequent to the collapse of the Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers

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 financial institution; a mere dry run for a shadowy group of individuals attempting to bring the world to a global financial crisis; Samuel Carver, ex-assassin, must bring a stop to their plans and save the woman he loves in the process.

Reception

The novel was well received by online review site Crimesquad, who stated that "The prose is tightrope taut and rarely is any word either extraneous or unnecessary." and awarded the novel a score of five out of five.