Hit List (Abridged)

by Lawrence Block Narrated by Lawrence Block

Overview

Keller is a regular guy, a solid citizen. He goes to the movies, watches the tube, browses the art galleries, and works diligently on his stamp collection. But every now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off to kill a total stranger. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and gets back before the body is cold.

He's a real pro, cool and dispassionate and very good at what he does. Until one day when Dot breaks her own rule and books him for a hit in New York, his home base. She sends him to an art gallery opening, and the girl he gets lucky with steers him to an astrologer. He's a Gemini, his moon's in Taurus...and he's got a murderer's thumb.

Then the jobs start to go wrong. Targets die before he can draw a bead on them. The realization is slow in coming, but there's no getting around it: Somebody out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way on to somebody else's hit list.

Read by the author.

Editorial Reviews

APR/MAY 01 - AudioFile

John Keller, solid citizen, living a Seinfeld type life, plans vacations, browses art museums, plans dinners, and buys groceries like everybody else. He appears so normal. Or is he? Could he be a contract killer? Block, multiple mystery award winner, characterizes an incidental character from a short story and brings him to life in his own novel. The author reads HIT LIST in clipped, private-eye tones. Initially, he sounds cutting-edge, almost riveting. Unfortunately, before the first tape ends, excessive detail and his monotone voice breed confusion, then boredom. This tape would be improved with a talented reader. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

APR/MAY 01 - AudioFile

John Keller, solid citizen, living a Seinfeld type life, plans vacations, browses art museums, plans dinners, and buys groceries like everybody else. He appears so normal. Or is he? Could he be a contract killer? Block, multiple mystery award winner, characterizes an incidental character from a short story and brings him to life in his own novel. The author reads HIT LIST in clipped, private-eye tones. Initially, he sounds cutting-edge, almost riveting. Unfortunately, before the first tape ends, excessive detail and his monotone voice breed confusion, then boredom. This tape would be improved with a talented reader. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170240401
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/03/2004
Series:	Keller , #2
Edition description:	Abridged

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