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Originally Posted by arcadata
Lawrence Block's John Keller Mysteries:
Hit Man ($0.99)
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I've read Hit Man (and the other Keller novels mentioned above), and found them really enjoyable. (As is nearly everything Block writes.) Hit Man has an add-on audiobook available at a great price, around $3-- I don't buy a lot of audiobooks, since I primarily listen on "road trips", and the length of the books doesn't ever seem to match the length of my trip. Hit Man is a cycle of related short stories, so the audiobook will work great for me to coordinate the driving time to listening time! I noticed that another of the books listed above also has a reduced-price whispersync audiobook at $10.
Block's treatment of the professional killer stories differs significantly from the usual cold-blooded hard-man delivery of, say, Richard Stark's Parker series. As the blurbs above indicate, Keller sometimes struggles with what the profession does to him as a person, with the Hit Man title focusing on those struggles.
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