The Tourist Killer

by FC Etier

Overview

In his first novel, FCEtier delves into the mindset of a masters candidate and the events that take the student on a career path to the top of a lonely profession. We meet ?The Shooter? as a mission is about to conclude and quickly become acquainted with a conflicted individual seeking resolution to inner conflicts as a phenomenal career enters its twilight years. Then another assignment comes up almost immediately. How does an individual become a target? Who makes the life-ending decision? The cast includes potential victims, security staffs, and several eccentric characters including an aging hippie who speaks only in song lyrics and a former FBI agent with diverse interests. The role of Julian F. Thibaut, the enigmatic billionaire member of the one percent of the one percenters, changes with the winds and adds doubt to the already unstable status quo. As the action proceeds on several fronts, the shooter battles conscience, hired killers, and burn-out while juggling relationships and attempts at normalcy. In this fast-paced story with political overtones, FCEtier takes readers on a thrilling ride while addressing personal, business, and governmental ethics.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016754000
Publisher:	Venture Galleries
Publication date:	10/21/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	323 KB

About the Author

Born in Louisiana, FCEtier spent most of his adult life in Baton Rouge, eventually splitting his time between Baton Rouge and Gulfport, Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina sent him in search of a safer harbor, which he found in Western North Carolina. With an eye for the unusual found within the usual, Etier has been involved with photography for many years. He began freelance writing several years ago, concentrating on music and book reviews and essays. His writing influences range from Dr. Seuss and Ernest Hemingway to William Safire, Ferrol Sams, Mark Twain, Miriam Goldberg, Ian Fleming, Michael Crichton, Carl Hiaasen, James A. Michener, Caleb Pirtle and John Grisham.

FCEtier is a husband, father, grandfather, pharmacist, photographer, and author. He and his wife live in North Carolina near Cold Mountain along with their three dogs and three cats.

Editorial Reviews

The line between good and bad is blurred. She could have easily been portrayed as a demon or a fallen angel; however, FC Etier chooses to present her as an empowered woman who willingly and willfully chose this career path for very logical and well thought-out reasons.

Is she a hero, ridding society of unpunished riff raff, or is she an arrogant, know-it-all psychopath that uses logic to excuse the inexcusable?

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-the-tourist-killer-by1/ - Ms Sahar

Jack Reacher is taking the cinema by storm, and not just because Tom Cruise is hot, although it certainly doesn’t hurt. Lee Child’s character had already blown the literary world away for years before. But where have women featured in this world of fast pace and thrills, well, er they haven’t. Not until now…
…Meet Claudia Barry, a hired assassin. The author has taken everything we love about kick-ass heroes in a thriller and given us all that charisma

http://www.vanitycasebooks.co.uk/#/review-the-tourist-killer/4573167973 - Ms Janny

The Tourist Killer is fast-paced and one wild rollercoaster of a ride – shootings and ambushes on mountain roads alternate with flashbacks of events that have helped shape the main characters and what will happen in Atlanta.
The story centers on Barry. She is a kind of anti-heroine – likeable, sympathetic, and yet coldly calculating about her chosen profession. She’s an expert at disguises and plans each one meticulously. What makes her human – and keeps hee..

http://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2012/11/fc-etiers-tourist-killer.html - Glynn Young

The main character Claudia Berry is an assassin that I found to be a likeable and compassionate woman capable of compartmentalizing her memories and thoughts in order to coldly calculate an execute her assignments. She is a character that is complex and fearless and very well developed and portrayed.

http://confessionsofreader.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-tourist-killer-by-fcetier.html - Marilou George

The novel is divided into seven parts, each beginning with a flashback from the life of professional assassin Claudia Barry, establishing her connection to events and action even when she is not present. Barry is a baby-boomer (as are most of the central characters) who chose a path far from the one traveled by her contemporaries-hippies, activists, revolutionaries, and yuppies.Through her introspection, readers discover the influences that led to the choice of her unusual-and unsavory-career.

http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-The-Tourist-Killer-by-FCEtier-3991163.php - Jet Gardner