The Accident Man by Tom Cain

[Ray]

From Fantastic Fiction:

Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver.

Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercenary he is the frontline weapon of the 'Consortium', a black-ops British government outfit, or is it? Carver is called to do a hit at very short notice. Do this job for us and be paid very well. Refuse and you better run and hide. He believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up. When he discovers the real identity of his target, and more importantly the identity of the target's female companion, he knows one thing - his life is over. This is a secret too big to let him live, unless he can track down the real villains before they get to him. Combining the plotting of Robert Ludlum, with the pace and tension of Frederick Forsyth, Tom Cain is a major new thriller writer and "The Accident Man" is a classic in the making and launches Samuel Carver straight into the top rank of action heroes.

     I enjoyed this debut very much. 

    

[Carolyn Tewell]

Place an On Hold at library...B&N critics rave about it, too.

[Carci]

Thanks Ray... This sounds like one that both Jerry & I will enjoy. I have it on request at our library.  Tom Cain has written 5 more Samuel Carver novels if you are interested:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/tom-cain/

[Ray]

Thanks for the tip, Carci.  I will look into all five.  May not like all of them, but that is true of all authors.