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Hit Me

Name: Hit Me
Rating: 2.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Lawrence Block

Auteur: Lawrence Block

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Lawrence Block Block

Engels
Hardcover
9780316224147
12 februari 2013
436 pagina's

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER LAWRENCE BLOCK RETURNS TO HIS DEADLIEST HITMAN

A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living.

But when the nation's economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards on his driver's license and credit cards, but he's back to being the man he always was: Keller.

Keller's work takes him to New York, the former home he hasn't dared revisit, where his target is the abbot of a midtown monastery. Another call puts him on a West Indies cruise, with several interesting fellow passengers-the government witness, the incandescent young woman keeping the witness company, and, sharing Keller's cabin, his wife, Julia. But the high drama comes in Cheyenne, where a recent widow is looking to sell her husband's stamp collection...

In HIT ME, legendary Edgar Grandmaster and New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns to one of his most beloved characters. Welcome back, Keller. You've been missed.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 februari 2013
Aantal pagina's: 436
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Lawrence Block
Tweede Auteur: Block
Hoofduitgeverij: Little Brown & Co

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Extra groot lettertype: Ja
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 160 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 43 mm
Verpakking lengte: 231 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 658 g

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EAN: 9780316224147

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Disappointing and boring
- pdoornb
- 24 december 2014
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Reads like a collection of short stories blown up to 50+ page chapters about a series of arranged killings by a man named Keller and his murder impresario Dot. LB published books about their early fruitful cooperation, but after a failed assignment both are presumed dead. However, they live on with new identities, Keller in New Orleans, Dot in Arizona.
Keller’s his new career of salvaging and selling on distressed real estate, collapsed after the 2008 credit crunch. But he has plenty of off-shore capital, is now married to a woman who knows what he once did (and finds it erotically stimulating). They have a small daughter. Then Dot reports in, would Keller be interested to…?
“Hit Me” goes on and on about collecting, owning and 'working' with stamps, the stress during auctions and the techniques of dealers asked to appraise collections. But apparently, stamps do have historical value, showing how political entities legitimized their existence by printing their own stamps or overprinting the stamps of its predecessor. Something useful after all from this boring book.
Written on autopilot by LB, whose unlicensed PI Matthew Scudder character I much enjoyed, there is little of interest for me here. None of the characters, victims or not, come to life. Tons of small talk on and off the phone, details about showering, meals and travel only serve to stretch, add words. Keller’s assignments and his executions are not riveting or very smart either.
This book is a waste of time.

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