The contemporary espionage story follows a cat and mouse game between a brilliant Marine, an Israeli agent, a teenage hacker and a mysterious psychopathic cleric.
Rupert Sanders ("Snow White And The Huntsman") is attached to direct the film.
Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler will produce the film.
If 'Afghan' detailed the terror networks themselves, Kill list focuses on the people who actually feed it the hatred it needs - the preacher (s). It begins with a code name that lands on a kill list and the subsequent man-hunt to hunt down and kill a man who feeds hatred through his oratory and takes pleasure in the drawn out death of his captives.
ReplyDeleteWhile threads of desert combat, HALO drops, negotiation tactics and the prevalence of pirates on the Somali coast are familiar to readers of Forsyth's other works, what sets the Kill list apart are the following : 1. This time its personal...very personal to the hero of the book 2. But for his occupation, said hero may have been an extraordinary chess player.
Usually the strategizing is left to behind-the-scenes men or the controllers but in this case, 'the Tracker' is a hybrid specimen capable of hard battle as well as superb strategizing (kind of like Mike Martin meets Nigel Irvine meets several cool gadgets and a no-holds barred budget)
That being said, one did miss the 'twist in the tale' that one expects from Forsyth...Nice read though.