Max Trueblood and the Jersey Desperado

An old hit man befriends a bumbling would-be gangster

As a hit man, Max Trueblood never left the house without a gun. Now that he's retired, he doesn't always pack heat. This is a mistake. When he returns home one day from the grocery store, he finds his apartment broken into and two thugs waiting with a summons from their boss. Trueblood scares them off, but he knows it isn't over. He is officially unretired.

When mob boss Raphael Tadzio decides he wants Max dead, he taps the up-and-...