Assassin's Game
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780765336729
- Type
- novel
About this book
Assassin's Game, running 384 pages, is the book most editions treat as the true starting point of the David Slaton series -- Ward Larsen's 2014 relaunch of the character a decade after The Perfect Assassin, drawing on his own background as an F-16 and airline pilot.
Key facts about Assassin's Game
Assassin's Game is a novel by Ward Larsen. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 384 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Assassin's Game. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765336729 to find the main one.
Assassin's Game is book 2 of 11 in the David Slaton series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with The Perfect Assassin (2004). Dark Vector is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 February 2025.
Additionally, Ward Larsen writes Jack Ryan and Jammer Davis as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Rules of Engagement is the latest published Ward Larsen book on file, from 19 May 2026.
About Ward Larsen
Ward Larsen flew F-16s in the U.S. Air Force — twenty-two combat missions during Operation Desert Storm — then went on to work as a federal law-enforcement officer, airline captain and trained aircraft accident investigator, expertise he's put directly to use across two long-running thriller series. See every Ward Larsen book in order.
Its place in David Slaton
Assassin's Game is book 2 in the David Slaton series. It follows The Perfect Assassin. It is followed by Assassin's Silence. See the full David Slaton reading order.
David Slaton is a former Mossad assassin — codenamed Kidon — trying, across nine novels and counting, to retire from a trade that keeps pulling him back in for one more impossible job. Ward Larsen, a former F-16 fighter pilot and airline pilot, launched the character in his debut The Perfect Assassin (2004, later folded into the numbered series), then relaunched him a decade later with Assassin's Game (2014), the book most editions treat as the series' true starting point. From there Slaton is chased through a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765336729
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781480501263
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250773715