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Original Title:	The Cleaner
Edition Language:	English
Series:	John Milton #1
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

The Cleaner (John Milton #1)

Mark Dawson

Kindle Edition | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 9670 Users | 697 Reviews

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Title	:	The Cleaner (John Milton #1)
Author	:	Mark Dawson
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	January 4th 2014 by Unputdownable (first published July 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Crime

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Meet John Milton

He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder.

Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he's had enough - there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from.
 
He goes on the run, seeking atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along the way. But his past cannot be easily forgotten and before long it is Milton who is hunted, and not the hunter.

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A career of state-sanctioned murder has taken its toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares, a long line of ghosts who torment his dreams. He resolves to make his next job his last and, then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done.

Sharon Warriner is a single mother in the East End of London, suicidal with fear that she's lost her young son to a life in the gangs. After Milton saves her life, he promises to help. But the gang, and the charismatic rapper who leads it, is not about to cooperate with him.

As London burns through summer riots, Milton finds himself in unfamiliar territory, dealing with an unfamiliar foe. And when his employer sends another agent after him, the odds against him are stacked even higher.

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This was a disappointment.What could have been an excellent redemption/vigilante story was marred by too many missteps. There was a big infodump about Milton's past awkwardly wedged into a chapter on his boss trying to figure out what to do with him. To make matters worse, the timeline of that "history" would put the present in about 2017-2018, clearly not the intent. There were a number of strange inconsistencies that had me shaking my head. (view spoiler)[ Why would Milton be concerned about

I enjoyed this much more than I was expecting to (I'm not sure the blurb was a particularly good reflection of the story) but I struggled to find some of the actions of the main character convincing. Given he was supposed to be a highly trained secret agent, he spectacularly failed to realise what the consequences of his actions would be. I could have forgiven this if at some point he had acknowledged how the disastrous turn of events was essentially his fault. Unfortunately not.

This was not the thriller I expected as the further you read you realise Milton is at a crisis in his profession as a agent for dark government enforcement. Indeed after his latest mission he tells Control he is through and can't do 'this' anymore.What marks this book thereafter is Milton's reluctance to use violence and his lack of normal interpersonal skills.A clever book to show this struggle, that having been a loner and sworn to secrecy his conversation is lacking especially when he talks

Reminded me of William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms in parts.

While I wasn't overly impressed with the writing, the pace and storyline kept me intrigued. I found myself rooting for Milton, a guy no one should root for given his past. But, that's the trademark of a good storyteller. As Stephen King says, "Even serial killers help old ladies across the street."Sometimes it's the story itself and not the writing that sell the tale. I grabbed the free audiobook copy, and I found the narrator quite good. However, at one point not too far into the story, I set

Come on, Milton said. Look at medo I look like James Bond? I enjoyed The Cleaner, Mark Dawsons first John Milton novel, having come to it with little expectation - the author sent me the book as part of his subscribers Starter Library but it sat on my Kindle until an interview with Dawson on Steve Cavanaghs & Luca Vestes very fine Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast sparked my interest again.John Milton, the British governments longest serving assassin, decides to quit following a

I was disappointed in this book. of course that could be because it's not what I was looking for. In my opinion the "jacket blurb" is misleading. I'd say that for a large portion of the book it's not actually about John Milton. It's about a young man who's struggling with living in a bad neighborhood, dealing with a gang, the fact his older brother is gone, his dad is gone, his mom is struggling. He's about to screw his life up...Look, maybe I'm just not socially conscious enough for this book.