Agent Seventeen
| Author | John Brownlow |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller, mystery |
| Published | November 2022 |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 416 |
| Awards | Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award |
| ISBN | 978-1335449535 Search this book on  . |
| OCLC | 1428270444 |
| 813.6 | |
| Followed by | Assassin Eighteen (2024) |
Agent Seventeen (also known as Seventeen: Last Man Standing) is a thriller novel by author John Brownlow about an assassin whose skills are unexplainable as he tackles his latest assignment in Berlin. It was published on November 2022 by Hodder & Stoughton.[1] The novel won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in August 2023.[2][3]
Premise
The novel follows an agent with no name, Agent Seventeen, as part of a secret agency of high-level operatives that span over a century, numbered by over one to the current one. However, when Agent Sixteen went rogue, Seventeen was ordered to track him and eliminate his target somewhere in Berlin.
Reception
Travis Knight, director of Kubo and the Two Strings and Bumblebee, praised for the novel to be muscular and delighfully subersove with quick wit, a wicked sense of humor and feeling like a James Bond movie made by the Coen brothers.[4]
Agent Seventeen holds an average rating score of 3.78 stars out of 5 for 97 reviews on the book tracking and recommendation website TheStoryGraph, with most reviewers calling the story plot driven and written for a younger audience.[5]
Publishers Weekly praised the book, saying "Seventeen’s captivating voice helps carry the plot and mask some of its formulaic aspects and silliness.".[6] Booklist[7] awarded it a starred review while both The Book Reporter[8] and The Arts Desk[9] also raved about the novel.
Sequel
A continuation novel, Assassin Eighteen, was released on April 2024.[10]
Film adaptation
On March 31, 2021, stop-motion animation Portland-based company Laika Studios announced a live-action adaptation of the novel by Brownlow, who’s a fan of Laika's previous work, as they opened a LA-based subsidiary called LAIKA Live-Action with the film being one of the first projects in their lineup.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335449531?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
- ↑ "2023 Dagger Award Winners Announced". The Crime Writers’ Association. Archived from the original on 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-07-10. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Grobar, Matt (March 31, 2021). "Laika Leaps Into Live-Action: Oscar-Nominated Animation Studio To Adapt John Brownlow's Debut Action Thriller Novel 'Seventeen'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
- ↑ "Reviews - Agent Seventeen" A Novel | The StoryGraph". beta.thestorygraph.com.
- ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Seventeen: Last Man Standing by John Brownlow". Publishers Weekly. 3 August 2022.
- ↑ Seventeen: Last Man Standing. October 15, 2022 – via Booklist. Search this book on
- ↑ Kramer, Pamela (January 27, 2023). "Review: Agent Seventeen". The Book Reporter.
- ↑ "Agent Seventeen: A Novel". IndieBound. 26 March 2024.
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335005706?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
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