Hit Parade
(Sprache: Englisch)
John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the efficient Dot, who organises his 'jobs' and who reassures his conscience. He is a stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, once he even got called for jury service.
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John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the efficient Dot, who organises his 'jobs' and who reassures his conscience. He is a stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, once he even got called for jury service.
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The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, KellerJohn Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently.
Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere."
But while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. A dog. Even a woman. And though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his precious stamp collection, these days, it doesn't seem to be enough.
Keller's been at this business a long while. Just maybe it's time to pack it in and find a nice little house in the desert. Only problem is, retirement takes money. And to get money, he's got to go to work. . . .
Hit Parade , the third novel featuring the fascinating Keller, displays the hallmarks that distinguish Lawrence Block's award-winning fiction: the intelligence, the clever plotting, the humor, the tricky twists and ironic turns, the darkness and emotional complexity -- and, above all else, the humanity.
Autoren-Porträt von Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block veröffentlichte seit 1961 über fünfzig Romane, einhundert Kurzgeschichten, etliche Sachbücher und Anthologien.Der Grandmaster der Mystery Writers of America und der Besitzer des Cartier Diamond Dagger ist einer der produktivsten und vielseitigsten US-amerikanischen Kriminalromanautoren.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lawrence Block
- 2007, LTE., 456 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0061120855
- ISBN-13: 9780061120855
Sprache:
Englisch
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