Assassins Lullaby, Mark Rubinstein
Assassins Lullaby, Mark Rubinstein
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Assassin's Lullaby

Author: Mark Rubinstein

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022

Synopsis

In every life, there lurks catastrophe.So believes Eli Dagan, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose traumatic past led to his service as an assassin for the Mossad. He now lives in New York City, where under various assumed names he’s a contract killer.Anton Gorlov, the head of the Brooklyn-based Odessa mafia, has a new and challenging assignment for Eli. Gorlov wants to leave the country permanently, so all loose ends must be eliminated. He’s willing to pay $1 million for a task divided into two parts. The job involves extreme measures along with unprecedented danger for Eli, who has lived a ghostly existence over the last ten years.Is accepting Gorlov’s offer a subliminal death wish? Or is it a way to reclaim part of his damaged soul?For the first time since his pregnant wife and parents were killed by a suicide bomber years earlier, Eli Dagan faces challenges that will reconnect him with his blighted past and may yet offer hope for a new and better life.

About Mark Rubinstein

After earning a degree in business administration at NYU, Mark Rubinstein served in the US Army as a field medic tending to paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.After his discharge he returned to college, went to medical school, and became a physician, then a psychiatrist. As a forensic psychiatrist, he was an expert witness in many trials. As an attending psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Cornell, he taught psychologists, psychiatric residents, nurses, and social workers while practicing psychiatry.Rubinstein’s high-octane thrillers Mad Dog House (2012) and its sequel, Mad Dog Justice (2014), were both finalists for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. His novella The Foot Soldier won the silver award in the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition, in the Popular Fiction category. His novella Return to Sandara (2014), won the gold IPPY Award for Suspense/Fiction. The Lovers’ Tango won the gold medal in Popular Fiction at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. His most recent novel is Mad Dog Vengeance (2017), the last book in the Mad Dog trilogy.Before turning to fiction, he coauthored five self-help books on psychological and medical topics.His latest nonfiction books are Bedlam’s Door (a finalist for the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Nonfiction) and Beyond Bedlam’s Door. Both are sets of stories about patients he’s treated or evaluated as a psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist.His most recent book is a nonfiction work entitled The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors, a compilation of candid interviews with writers whose novels have been worldwide bestsellers.He now writes fiction and nonfiction, has been a contributor to the Huffington Post, was a contributor to Psychology Today, contributes columns to Literary Hub’s Crime Reads, and is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books.Visit his website at www.MarkRubinstein-Author.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rekha

What a fantastic and completely gripping thriller! Excellent character portrayal and storytelling. We have lots of twists in the story - starting from the time when Eli meets Agapov to Anton's second task to the ending. Speaking of endings, that was one heck-of-a-twist! I had to read the paragraph t......more

Goodreads review by Toni

This is the story of Eli Dagan a former field agent for the Mossad who turned out to be the best contract killer around. He is meticulous and very alert although he is starting to change his habits and make decisions he would not have done years ago. Instead of taking contracts on the dark web for a......more

Goodreads review by Kym

An assassin is brought into a meeting with a mafia don. He doesn't normally meet people in person but this is an exception to his rule. Shortly after, he is brought in front of another don of another organization. Both don's are trying to get him to kill the other don. Wearily, he accepts and soon f......more

Goodreads review by Riley

I honestly really enjoyed this story! This is a thriller and suspense book that I would recommend to anyone else who enjoys those spy/heist stories. (I got a big Jason Bourne feel from this story if that helps the type of movies I am talking about). I don't think it would appeal to everyone in the l......more

Goodreads review by Lori

The cover of Assassin's Lullaby tells us this book is about organized crime and in reading the story we are reminded that people live patterned lives and you can never tell anyone's intentions. Eli Dagan is an assassin and a hard target which opens this suspense-building fictional tale. In the openin......more

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