Hit Man

Paperback, 384 pages

Published May 6, 1999 by Orion mass market paperback.

ISBN:
978-0-7528-2592-2
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OCLC Number:
40645691

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3 stars (1 review)

Keller is your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment, works the crossword puzzle. Until the phone rings, and he flies halfway across the country…and kills somebody. It's a living, but is it a life?You've never met anyone like Keller.Keller is a killer. Professional, cool, confident, competent, reliable. The consummate pro. The hit man's hit man.But he is a complex person: understandably guarded and reclusive, icy and ruthlessly efficient, he is also prone to loneliness, self-doubt, and career worries. Keller may be a crack assassin, but he is also an all-too-human being.We first met Keller in Hit Man. He's back again in HIT LIST. Same job, new list of targets, and a hit man who's after him...

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3 stars

Keller is a stone cold killer (as discussed at length when he goes to therapy). So why is he a sympathetic character? I think it must be his amusingly hapless attempts to try to connect with the rest of humanity by fantasising about small-town life, getting a dog, even taking up stamp collecting! Whatever the reason, Keller is an interesting enigma who makes murder look easy (suspiciously easy, I'm pretty sure the author is giving him a big break) in this sequential set of shorts, originally published in Playboy.

Subjects

  • Crime & mystery
  • Mystery/Suspense