Killshot
Book description
The King of Cool returns with another thrilling tale of crime capers.
Arman 'The Blackbird' Degas is a professional hitman: one shot, one kill. But when he's carjacked by ex-con Richie Nix, he finds himself with a lethal partner.
Nix is on his way to shake down a realtor and…
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2 authors picked Killshot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love complicated, conflicted villains, so this early masterpiece by Elmore Lenard grabbed me on page one.
The Blackbird, an Ojibwa Indian living in Toronto, is a paid assassin. He's very good at it, but now he's fifty, and he's tired of taking orders, living alone, and drinking too much. The phone rings, and a mobster hires him to kill a man in Detroit. The Blackbird believes this is a sign. In Detroit, he bumps off the target and drives to the nearest bar to celebrate his retirement. No more killing for him. But a fast-talking hustler in the bar…
Just about any of Leonard’s several dozen suspense novels could have a top spot in this reckoning, including the better known Get Shorty, Freaky Deaky, and Glitz. My vote for the best goes, however, to Killshot, his dark, deftly plotted, highly comedic 1989 thriller about two bumbling killers and a ballsy middle-aged married couple the killers mistake for easy marks. Armand Degas, a soulful Ojibway known as the Blackbird, has grown tired of being a hit man for the Detroit mob. He’s befriended by a moronic thug named Richie Nix, whose bucket list includes robbing a…
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