David Slaton · Book 1
The Perfect Assassin
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN-13
- 9781933515151
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Perfect Assassin, published in 2004, is Ward Larsen's debut introducing David Slaton, a former Mossad assassin codenamed Kidon. Most editions now number it as the series' first book, though it was written a decade before Larsen relaunched the character with Assassin's Game.
Its place in David Slaton
The Perfect Assassin is book 1 in the David Slaton series. It is followed by Assassin's Game. 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 9780976124306
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781933515151
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781933515274