The John Milton Series Books 13 The John Milton Series Boxset Book 1 edition by Mark Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
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The first three thrillers in the million-selling John Milton series The Cleaner, Saint Death and The Driver.
"It’s impossible not to think of Lee Child’s super-selling Jack Reacher. " - The Times
Have you met Milton?
He's a problem solver. The man the British government calls on to take care of the worst of the worst the enemies of the state that the Secret Service and the military can’t stop. But years of covert identities and clandestine missions have taken their toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares and resolves to make his next job his last. Then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done.
But it's not as easy as that.
Milton's job is not one that you can just walk away from...
"A literary sensation." - The Daily Telegraph
"Dawson writes the kind of thrillers I love. Non-stop, grab-you-by-the-throat tales of doing the right thing no matter the odds. Simply excellent." - USA Today bestselling author Brett Battles
More than 1m copies downloaded and 1000s of five star reviews. Available in digital, print and audiobook.
What readers are saying
★★★★★ 'Move over Reacher and Bond!'
★★★★★ 'The characters are well written. The pacing is excellent.'
★★★★★ 'Strong, relevant and very cinematic.'
★★★★★ 'Dawson is a great writer, painting vivid pictures with his descriptions.'
★★★★★ 'Incredibly entertaining and fun.'
★★★★★ 'A slam dunk winner.'
★★★★★ 'Remarkable book!'
★★★★★ 'John Milton is three-fourths Jack Reacher and one-fourth John Rain and Mark Dawson reaches the sublime high level of character, story, writing and entertainment achieved by Lee Child and Barry Eisler.'
★★★★★ 'I am thoroughly hooked on Mark Dawson's writing. No dull pages, just smooth flowing lines from start to finish.'
★★★★★ 'Simply awesome.'
★★★★★ 'Mr Dawson doesn't pull any punches, leaving you to believe that anything can happen and no one is safe. Do yourself a favour and pick up this book now.'
Buy the box set and start a series you won’t want to put down!
(Books 4-6 and 7-9 are also available in great value omnibus editions.)
The John Milton Series Books 13 The John Milton Series Boxset Book 1 edition by Mark Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks
This series of books were great to have and read together one after the other. I appreciated the style of writing and the fact that Mark Dawson didn't resort to sex or gory, bloody details to sell the story or as filler, making the books longer. John Smith was the story and the books were a good read.Thank you Mr. Dawson for giving me several hours of interesting, enjoyable reading.
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The John Milton Series Books 13 The John Milton Series Boxset Book 1 edition by Mark Dawson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I bought these because they were advertised as similar to the "Jack Reacher" series and offered at a cheap price. There was a reason.....the main character was nowhere near as interesting as Reacher, his story was very lacking, I found a lot of "holes" in the stories, ie, he is supposed to be a assassin that can blend in anywhere......yet in every story he is "found out" because of his English accent.....how could he be able to slip in and out of places without being noticed if he has a accent??? the people he helps out again are not as compelling as in the Reacher series. I would not recommend this series.
Okay. Full disclosure here. I picked this collection up a while ago for 99 cents with a diabolical purpose in mind. I wanted to read Mark Dawson's JOHN MILTON SERIES in hopes of picking up some tips on how to sell a billion freaking e-books.
Or maybe he is up to two billion by now.
In any case, as any real writer will tell you, a writer needs to read and write. So I figured, all kidding aside, that I ought to read one or two of these books, just to see how he did it.
For starters, it was a genre that I enjoy reading. I like me a good thriller. I'm an old school fan of Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series, James Bond in books AND James Bond movies, the television series The Equalizer, and Lee Child's Jack Reacher series (in spite of the just way too un-tall rendition by little Tom Cruise - a fellow who is a heck of an actor and has made enough dollars over the years to buy and sell the Cadbury Caramilk secret about a half a billion times or so).
So I figured I would enjoy this series well enough - and I might even pick up some diabolical writing secrets - the same I figured that sleeping on my homework on night was going to get it done by magical elves while I dreamed of endless bottles of root beer and cheeseburgers).
The first book started out unluckily.
The prose had a British accent.
Now, there is nothing wrong with UK authors. I read a lot of them in my younger years and I actually enjoyed them. But, shortly after dropping out and/or failing to complete university at least two or three times over the years, I fell back into simpler ways and came to prefer the gritty hardboiled stylings of certain American tough guy authors. Give me Robert Parker or Stephen Hunter on their good days and I am a happy man.
But a fellow has to read a lot of books to call himself a reader - so I gave John Milton a try, but when I realized it was British fiction I was a little wary.
(On a side note - how many of you folks have noticed that a lot of the younger types these days believe that the word "wary" is spelled "weary". I work in an office with many official note-takers and I have come to realize that a lot of the early millennial-types really don't know how to spell anymore. That doesn't have a thing to do with this review. I'm on horse-pill pneumonia-killing antibiotics today and I am going to indulge in the occasional wandering aside.)
Son of a gun, though, that first story THE CLEANER, drew me right in. John Milton is kind of like James Bond gone sour. I'm not talking Roger Moore James Bond, you understand. I'm talking more along the lines of Sean Connery or Daniel Craig - if he can ever find a decent scriptwriter to pen something more along the lines of GOLDFINGER with testosterone.
I liked Mark Dawson's Milton character. I liked that he was little world-weary and suffered a bit from PTSD and was attending AA meetings like Lawrence Block's wonderful Matthew Scudder novels. I was a little less than enthralled at first with his gangster characters all having slangy limehouse accents but I kept wanting to throw them into Boston or Chicago or New York City - but that is just my literary bias coming out again. They were still solid villains and made good foils to the hero's dusty gray code of honor.
I did feel that the action level could have been cranked up just a little bit.
Remember, I am seriously old school and I want to see a big shoot-out showdown at the end of a novel, usually lasting for about the last one quarter's worth of a prose novel. Sure, there can a little bit of kissing but I want to see some gunplay, darn it.
Still, when I hit THE END, I hastily flipped over to the next page, eager to get started reading Book Two of the John Milton Series.
That would be SAINT DEATH.
Cool freaking title, Mr. Dawson.
It kind of put me in mind of Garth Ennis's SAINT OF KILLERS from his world-famous PREACHER series of graphic novels - and if you haven't read them yet you really don't know what you are missing!
Yeah, I use one too many exclamation marks sometimes - but them antibiotics are messing with my grammatical sensibilities right now.
SAINT DEATH put right into the mood to go and watch BREAKING BAD for the sixteenth thousandth time, what with its marvelous depiction of the Mexican Cartels.
(Hey, speaking of Mexico, I've been watching THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN today. I'm getting a little dizzy from all of this typing so I am going back to my easy chair to watch THE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN right now.)
Okay, so I'm back.
Let us deal in some more lead here, friends.
I enjoyed this second book even more so. I like reading the journey of this sort of James Bond turned Quixote character. He carries a bit of that world weary gravitas that I always enjoy reading about and pretending that I sometimes possess. I liked that the protagonist was a fry cook on the side. I enjoyed the secondary character of the old cowboy bounty hunter Beau Baxter.There was a bit more shoot-em-up action in this second book and that pleased me as well. I don't necessarily need to read a bloodbath scenario, but I appreciate the reek of testosterone and gunpowder drifting through the pages of a thriller.
So, when I hit Book 3 - THE DRIVER I was well and truly hooked.
So for this third book Milton is making a few side bucks as a sort of a combination Uber driver meets Gypsy Cab, which worked for me. I have worked a lot of different jobs in my lifetime and I appreciate that Milton is a bit of a workhorse - just so long as he can find a below-the-radar job to pay the bills. He stumbles into a kind of gated community serial killer meets Manchurian Candidate kind of plot that Mark Dawson handled well. I also appreciated that the serial-killer meets who-dunnit Mcguffin didn't slip into the Hannibal Lector arena. The carefully woven sub-plot of political intrigue worked as well. I was glad to see bounty hunter Beau Baxter back in the saddle for this book as well. I wonder if the Cartel is going to resurface down the road.
Throughout the first three novels, John Milton's first employer (basically the same folks that James Bond worked for), are frantically trying to clean up loose ends by putting John Milton under a couple of yards of English dirt. I hope that Milton gets the chance to settle up this back business once and for all - but it is definitely long arc material and won't happen too soon.
The bonus novella, 1000 YARDS, started a little rockily with a lot of military-style bulletins that were, I suppose, intensely atmospheric, but mostly I flipped over them. That is a problem with having an impatient reader but it also felt a little like padding. I wanted to get on with John Milton - but he did not disappoint me when he did turn up.
I'd recommend this series for any thriller fans or Daniel Craig James Bond fans or all of those Jack Reacher fans out of there who are tired of waiting for Lee Child to bang out his next big novel. Fortunately, there are over a dozen or so John Milton novels and I bet they are all just as good. I intend to get around to reading them all, one of these days.
Now let me go back to healing up, would you. I'm a tired old man spending most of my days split between a day job, my reading and my way-too-slow writing career.
Yours in Storytelling,
Steve Vernon
This box set showed up on a list of books thought I would enjoy. I tend to read adventure, crime mysteries.
John Milton can no longer be an undercover operator for the British government, but he knows too much to retire peacefully. He has been on too many missions and killed too many people. These the books follow John Milton as he tries to make up for the lives he has taken. In the first book, he gets involved with a family living in a bad part of London. He soon realizes even when he tries to help people, his brand of assistance (violence) can't save the day. The government is after him so he leaves the country. I enjoyed the second book the most. When dealing with a Mexican drug cartel, he is better equipped to help. The third book takes place in San Francisco. Here, he actually makes friends, but the old ways return and he is forced to leave. I like that Dawson doesn't make the books graphically violent. People are killed, but we don't have to have every detail of the deaths.
The stories are original and I look forward to reading more books by Dawson.
I usually do not gush over one book, let alone three but these I could not put down. Move aside Jack Reacher, there is a new bad boy in town and his name is John Milton. I will admit that getting into the first book was a little difficult because it did not fit the formula of the detective books I have been reading but it was worth the effort. I will not spoil the plots but you have to start with one and read forward. Like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, these have to be read in order and when you get done, you too will say, "Damn that was a good read!" i just bought Dawson's Ghosts based on my own recommendation, so myself, don't let me down.
Many are comparing this series with the Jack Reacher books, or Lisbeth Salander. I see the point, but this hero doesn't really live up to that standard. Milton is too sure of himself. Saved too often by a fortuitous but improbable turn of events, rather than his cunning. One is also reminded of the Bourne Identity series, as there is an evil intelligence agency out to get our hero.
The stories all tie together, so you need to keep buying to find out how it turns out. I quit after the first box set, when the price went up. Okay but not great.
This series of books were great to have and read together one after the other. I appreciated the style of writing and the fact that Mark Dawson didn't resort to sex or gory, bloody details to sell the story or as filler, making the books longer. John Smith was the story and the books were a good read.
Thank you Mr. Dawson for giving me several hours of interesting, enjoyable reading.
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