Hit list (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 342 pages. page edge foxed and tannedSequel to Block's previous work, Hit Man, a gripping insight into the life of a paid assassin who finds his way on to someone else's hit list.Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite hi s profession. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organise s his jobs and reassures his grumbling conscience. He is an obsessive stamp co llector. In a blackly comic twist, he even gets called for jury service. Laid ba ck, couldn't care less, morally distanced from his vocation, Keller is an intrig uing character. A visit to an astrologer tells him, and us, that he is a gentle man who is simply surrounded by violence rather than being a perpetrator of it. His professional satisfaction, we learn, comes from solving a problem. Taking lives causes him no real anxiety. And then Keller's jobs start to go wrong. Targ ets die before he can get to them. Gradually he realises that he is being stalke d. Another hitman is trying to weed out the competition and kill him. Keller and Dot try to turn the tables but how many innocents will get caught in the crossf ire before Keller is truly safe.…

DVD. Zustand: Very Good. Region: 1 - USA & Canada, Rating: R.