DAVID SLATON
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Full Name: |
David Slaton |
Nationality: |
Israeli |
Organization: |
Mossad |
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Agent |
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Creator: |
Ward Larsen
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Time Span: |
2008 - 2020 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
David Slaton is an agent with MOSSAD.
More specifically, he is a kidon, translated at bayonet or tip of the spear, a highly trained killing machine. Officially these men and women do not exist because the government does not want the hassle of explaining why it needs silent killers eliminating targets inside the country and out, working without judicial mandate sometimes on the opinion of a small group of leaders. Unofficially there are always those people whose continued existence puts a nation at risk and it becomes vital to that country's governors that killing them is the best route. That is when people like Slaton are summoned.
Slaton is a native born Israeli, having been born a decade after the country came into being. His father had been a major player in the Haganah, the paramilitary force operating in Palestine to protect the Jews living there. This group fought Arab and British authorities as thousands of European refugees tried to flee to the Holy Land to escape death in Nazi-controlled lands. When independence finally came, the elder Slaton had turned diplomat and become a leader in getting huge donations sent to a needy infant country. Then an Egyptian unhappy with things shot him and his wife dead with a nine-year-old Slaton watching.
Adopted by a friend of the family, he moved to a kibbutz but two years later the Yom Kippur War started and the settlement was in the path of Syrian tanks. Seeing his new family killed, a young Slaton reacted by killing several Syrian soldiers, an act he was reluctant to talk about. After the conflict he went back to school and eventually graduated university. Following this was marriage and a child and a good job. Then a terrorist attack occurred and Slaton was informed his wife and child were dead and it was the fault of Arab terrorist. He was offered a chance to strike back. He took it.
Things in Slaton will change greatly in the course of this series. He will eventually meet Christine Palmer, an impressive doctor and solo sailor. He will learn that many of the people he once trusted with his life did not deserve such fealty. He will also learn that while he was extremely good at killing, he did not have to do it to be content. Lastly he would find that while he could happily and easily leave his violent nature behind him, when his family is threatened, he knew just where he had put it.
BOOKS
Number of Books: | 7 |
First Appearance: | 2008 |
Last Appearance: | 2020 |
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The Perfect Assassin
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2008
Christine Palmer is an American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic when she discovers David Slaton floating and barely alive in the icy ocean. He is a Kidon, a highly trained assassin and someone wants him dead. For having saved him, Palmer is also now in danger.
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Assassin's Game
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2014
Having quit his old line of work, former Mossad assassin David Slaton has a new and welcome life in Virginia. Then his old bosses come calling with one more mission - assassinate an Irani nuclear scientist. Slaton does not want to but an attack on his wife puts him into action.
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Assassin's Silence
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2016
To protect his family, David Slaton goes into hiding and at that he is one of the best. Still, he is found and attacked. At the same time, a derelict airliner crashes in the ocean. Somehow the two events are connected.
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Assassin's Code
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2017
The man who is to become the head of DGSI, Frances's counter-terrorism force and the hero of that nation is not who he says he is. David Slaton is certain he is really a terrorist Slaton thought he had killed almost two decades before.
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Assassin's Run
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2018
The murder of a Russian oligarch off the Isle of Capri has enough pointers to David Slaton as the assassin to make everyone convinced he did it. Since he didn't, Slaton knows it is up to him to prove it by finding who really pulled the trigger.
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Assassin's Revenge
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2019
Coming back to the sailboat he was using with his wife and young son, David Slaton finds them missing and a note telling him that if he wishes to see them again, he must kill a scientist working for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Assassin's Strike
Written by Ward Larsen
Copyright: 2020
A secret meeting between the President s of Russia and Iran is held with only the witnesses being the two interpreters. The Russian one, Ludmilla Kravchuk, was worried by what she had heard and knew she had not long to live when she sees her Iranian counterpart killed. She goes into hiding in Syria. The CIA wants to learn what she knows and sends their contract agent, David Slaton, to get her out.
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GRADE
My Grade: A
Your Average Grade: A-
YOUR OPINIONS
dbuhler
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A-
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2020-09-14
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If you like slam/bam/boom Bourne and Logan West escapades, then Slaton is your guy. He makes his shots from a mile away, and somehow survives every sure-death moment. When time is of the essence, he meets his CIA control in Uruguay, instead of halfway between his home in Idaho and DC. Right, makes no sense, but then neither do the escapes. Since he is married and has a young son, there are no beautiful and deadly females to detract from the comicbook action. Bummer.
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