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Intern's Handbook: A John Lago Thriller
Intern's Handbook: A John Lago Thriller | Shane Kuhn
**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Best of the Year "Seattle Times" An elite assassin goes undercover as an unpaid office lackey in "The Intern s Handbook, " a sexy, darkly comic thriller with cinematic flourishes ("New York Daily News"). Imagine Dexter working in "The Office" ("Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel") and you have John Lago, intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the grunt work no one else wants to do and he doesn t make a dime. But John isn t trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm s high profile, heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover he can gather intel and secure the access he needs to execute a clean, untraceable kill. Faceless and forgettable, an intern s as invisible as a ninja in fluorescent lights and, at least in John Lago s case, just as deadly (NPR.org). "The Intern s Handbook" begins as an unofficial survival guide for new recruits at Human Resources, Inc. a front for one of the most elite assassin training and placement programs in the world and becomes a chronicle of John s final assignment, a twisted, violent thrill ride in which he is pitted against the strongest (and sexiest) adversary he has ever faced: Alice, a federal agent assigned to investigate the same law firm partner John s been hired to kill."
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Panpan

I wanted something fun and fast, but God, was this one a slog.

Most of the narration is the first person, and the narrator is unreliable (which is great) and cringingly unlikable (which is not). I like reading about bad people—unless they‘re basic bastards.

Were we supposed to sympathize...?

(I so did not)

And the creepy instalove. Oh my gawd, the instalove 🤮

(The MC‘s credibility we‘ll not talk about)

Why can‘t I just DNF books???

1.5/5

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RaeLovesToRead
Kill Your Boss | Shane Kuhn
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Mehso-so

Well that was... daft.

Surprisingly readable but totally ridiculous, this guidebook for assassin interns was completely bonkers. Taking down roomfuls of armed security with your bare hands bonkers.

The body count is high, the credibility non-existent.

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EH2018
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So many spiders!!! 🕷🕷🕷🕷
Thank you so much @MaleficentBookDragon I love it all! Cant wait to start reading and dig into that candy tomorrow. I already wore the scarf around the house tonight, so soft!
Thank you for hosting @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Great box! 🎃🖤🧡☠️ 4y
MaleficentBookDragon Yay! I‘m so glad. And the box didn‘t lie. The guy at the post office was concerned. 🤣🕷🕷🕷🕷 4y
EH2018 Thats so funny 🤣 4y
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#ReadingResolutions Day 6: My 16 yo daughter may be somewhat of a #RelatableCharacter with her “I‘m so done” look after being interviewed for an internship in the next 2 wks w an award-winning ad agency here in Singapore. Since she wants to take up advertising, I hooked her up with a company who does advertising work for Disney/Marvel among others. When she realized it will be a 9-6 pm day with massive video editing tasks, she was like “Ok, then.”

GatheringBooks truth be told, this is her terrified/excited/somewhat-resigned/woohoo look. 😱🤣😭😍 6y
Tanisha_A Congratulations, and all the best to her! 😀 6y
Cathythoughts The best of luck to her ! Sounds really exciting 💫 6y
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batsy Good luck to her! 6y
Reggie Wow, good for her!!! 6y
Bookgirl Great opportunity! 6y
GatheringBooks thank you, book tribe @Tanisha_A @Cathythoughts @batsy @Reggie @Bookgirl turns out her first day today is also her last day since apparently her school (school of the arts singapore) does not permit paid/unpaid internship 😭😂😱- she was just informed by hr today. so 😭. 6y
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TheWhiteHatter
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Had a great day with the wife toady. Went to Barnes and Nobel found two books from my TBR list on sale, and then enjoyed some Butterbeer at the cafe😊. #bookhaul #greatwife #lazysunday #tbrscore

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mcipher
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A good book makes waiting in the car a great way to spend a couple hours. 👍

Lmstraubie Waiting for my son's hockey game to start = found reading time 🤓👍 8y
SaraFair You know it! 8y
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Kath4388
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So excellent!
Everything I wanted in a spy/assassin thriller!