Clearly written with the intentions of being made into a movie, Number One With A Bullet, is an entertaining, if not a bit over-the-top, action / thriller / suspense tale of 10 world class assassins in a deathmatch, the prize for the last man (or woman) standing being $100,000,000.

While, like I said, this is a fun book, it was almost (well actually too much) more "movie" than book. The action is so non-stop and outlandish as to often times, it becomes ridiculous. The characters, at least in my mind, are so clearly written for film as to be stereo-types of current famous actors. Dane, the lead hitman, would be Jason Statham (or if filmed four years ago, maybe Vin Diesel). The lead female assassin would have to go to Angelina Jolie. Dane's girlfriend? - Eva Mendes. I have more examples, but... you get the idea.

*Hory crap, you guys, I kid you not. I was just googleing the book, hoping to refresh my memory of the names of some of the characters, so that I could give more examples... and I found a youtube video purporting to be the official trailer for the movie "Number One With A Bullet". Fully half of the character were played by actors that I had listed here and others I had in mind. No info on IMDB, though, so it may be a joke.*

Anyway, the book is decent, for a quick action audio thrilljob, but not much else. Plot was under developed, prose was movie clichéd and yeah... that's about it. A big fat "Meh." ( )