Bullet to the Heart (No Mercy Book 1)

This is hardcore stuff right here.. The author blew me away with the brutality and heartbreak of this story.

Girls are taken at the age of 5 by a sadistic man who tortures the humanity out of them to turn them into deadly assassins. Twenty two years ago he took his first set of girls now they are his best assassins. But for those 22 years they have been plotting to get there revenge. The one born Gretchen who became Bullet is the heroine of this story. She is the deadliest sniper there is. When she purposely botches her latest job to set her plan in motion for revenge she has to endure more torture at the hands of the man she just let live because he thinks she is the one that killed his wife and daughter 7 years ago.

The hatred Rand Beckett has for Bullet and the extreme torture he puts her through is brutal but it’s nothing new to her as she was put through similar torture from the man who is head of The Collective. Bullet has to be the strongest female character I have ever read. Nothing can break her. The inner struggle these two go through as they work through their feelings – his of hatred and her of never having any for so long due to her programming – was fascinating to watch.

The main objective of both the 4 assassins and Rend’s group men who make up Trident Corporation is to kill all of the men that make up The Collective. The assassins want Joseph’s head and Trident wants The Collective’s. There is not a resolution to this at the end of the book. As there are three more of the female assassins’ stories to tell I am guessing the final revenge will not be until the last book. I am soo in on all the future books in this series.