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Title: Hit List by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0-06-103099-6 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.9 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Should be on Everyone's "Hit List"
Comment: John Keller is just your average business man. He's single, dates, eats out alot, watches TV, takes in a movie or browses through stores and galleries and collects stamps for a hobby. Every so often, he gets a call from Dot, his dispatcher and heads out on a job. His line of work...contract killer...he kills total strangers for a fee and no one else in the world, except Dot, knows what he does for a living. Life is good until he goes to Louisville, Kentucky for a simple hit and gets this funny feeling that everything is not quite right, just a little off. That feeling is confirmed, when a couple are shot and killed in the motel room he's just vacated. It gets so strong, in fact, that he decides to see an astrologer and have his chart read. She tells him that he's going to have a rough year. He has an enemy out there who wants him dead.....So begins Hit List, Lawrence Block's latest mystery/thriller. This is a well paced, compelling novel full of vivid scenes, droll humor and enough twists, turns and surprises, to keep you turning pages to the end. Mr Block's writing is smart, crisp and down to earth, with dialogue that's so true to life, it will, at times, have you laughing out loud. To his credit, Keller is such a likeable, well drawn and defined character, that even though he's a hit man, you'll be rooting for him to the end. So tag along with Keller, as jobs start to go wrong and he realizes that the hit man is now on somebody's hit list. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful writing--interesting but damaged character
Comment: Keller is a hit man--he doesn't see anything especially wrong with his job although he prefers not to know about his victim's families--it's just how he pays the rent and keeps up his stamp collection. Now, though, something funny is happening. Several of his victims are killed before Keller gets to them. A new girlfriend accuses him of having 'murderer's thumb,' and an astrologer forecasts difficult times ahead.
Lawrence Block is a wonderfully talented writer who manages to make such an inherently unsympathetic character interesting and even sympathetic. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I didn't mind Keller's banter and the jury scene. In fact, I think this is part of Block's trick to make us understand how Keller sees himself--just a guy doing a job. I do agree that the conclusion is just a little knocked off. I would have liked to see a little more cleverness in setting the trap for the killer after Keller. Still, I enjoyed this book a lot.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hits in Parts But Misses in Others
Comment: Some parts of this book are really interesting and a great read while others you are fighting not to fall asleep as they are so boring. When Keller is actually on the job as a hit man it is fascinating and must turn the next page to find out what will happen next reading, but when he is not on the job his life is very boring. Stamp collecting, visiting an astrologer, jury duty and things like this just aren't interesting.
Basically this book is about a professional killer named Keller who has some competition. Only problem is that his competition doesn't want any, and it soon becomes apparent to Keller that if he doesn't work out who his rival is and kill him first he will be killed himself. If Lawrence Block had maybe concentrated a little more on this aspect rather than the boring chapters he wrote then this book could have been five stars. Without the editing it barely makes two and a half.
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Title: Hit Man by Lawrence Block ISBN: 038072541X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Everybody Dies by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380725355 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hope to Die by Lawrence Block ISBN: 006103097X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Long Line of Dead Men: A Matthew Scudder Mystery by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0380806045 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block ISBN: 038072023X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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