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Hit and Run (John Keller Mysteries)
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Manufacturer: William Morrow
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060840907
ISBN: 0060840900
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Studio: William Morrow

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Editorial Reviews:

Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill.

But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job standing between him and retirement. So he carries it out with his usual professionalism, and he heads home, and guess what?

One more job. Paid in advance, so what's he going to do? Give the money back? In Des Moines, Keller stalks his designated target and waits for the client to give him the go-ahead. And one fine morning he's picking out stamps for his collection (Sweden 1-5, the official reprints) at a shop in Urbandale when somebody guns down the charismatic governor of Ohio.

Back at his motel, Keller's watching TV when they show the killer's face. And there's something all too familiar about that face. . . .

Keller calls his associate Dot in White Plains, but there is no answer. He's stranded halfway across the country, every cop in America's just seen his picture, his ID and credit cards are no longer good, and he just spent almost all of his cash on the stamps.

Now what?




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Summary: Back in the Saddle
Comment: Broke, destitute, without a friend in the world, every member of law enforcement in the continent is looking for you, your face on every media format available. Can it get worse? Actually, he might say that it wasn't bad at all. Without going into detail, life dramatically changes for the man who rode a thousand miles to kill a man he never met, and he still collects a few stamps along the way. I enjoyed every book the LB has written; this one is not a disappointment. It slows down a wee bit in the middle as the angels are singing, the birds are chirping and life is becoming a strange wonderful dream for Keller. I like the way LB weaves the book together. We are lulled into a feeling of nirvana and in a second, the man of action is back in the saddle and the gears are shifted again. While Mr. Keller is still the deep thinker, still trying to figure the half-full/half-empty what life is all about puzzle he is still the man who reacts instantly with conviction. Some of his reactions are amazing in this book. He is becoming human, with feelings and desires beyond a complete collection. But if it is the series finale, it's a good way to go out, and he does it with style.

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Summary: Well worth reading.
Comment: Readers of the Keller series typically ask themselves what it is about the stamp collecting hit man that makes him so appealing; we want him to win. On the surface I suppose we are attracted by the adventure. Imagine you have suddenly lost everything: assets, home, family and friends, and had to go on the run. Then imagine that on top of that, you are the most wanted person in America and the stakes are not freedom or incarceration but life and death. The tactics Keller uses are as good as those used by the assassin in "Day of the Jackal." The reader will certainly wonder how they themselves would have responded in similar circumstances.
There is however, a far deeper aspect to this book, which is certainly one of Block's best. You see, the hero collects stamps. As Ayn Rand once wrote, "The pleasure of that hobby lies in a certain special way of using one's mind. Stamp collecting is a hobby for busy, purposeful, ambitious people - because, in patterns, it has the essential elements of a career, but transposed to a clearly delimited, intensely private world..." It also, I point out, seeks both beauty and knowledge. Life is what we spend our time thinking about and Keller's loss of his collection and hobby as he goes on the run forces the reader to ponder what it is that makes life beautiful for them. There is no question Keller is warped, and I have heard readers state that, "Well, nobody is perfect" as they try to excuse him. The brilliance of this work is that what Keller does is beside the point. What the reader really is drawn to is their own unwritten reaction to the larger personal issues represented by Keller's actions and hobby and the resulting private conversation about right and wrong.



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Summary: 2 1/2 Stars
Comment: John Keller flees for his life and becomes increasingly suspicious about his handler's ominous unresponsiveness. BT.
I have to say I just picked this up at the library and decided to give Lawrence Block a try. Yes it was my first Block novel though I've known about him for years.
First of all I was troubled and baffled by the fact that there could be a series of novels that has a remorseless hitman as the protaganist and supposed 'hero'. I realize this is the fourth in the series so maybe I missed something. Doubt it.
The story moved along at a very slow pace and seemed to be written for the slow-witted. Overall a disappointing introduction to Lawrence Block for me.

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Summary: there's no Kindle edition
Comment: Please make the Kindle edition available. This author does have other books for Kindle. I don't understand the delay for this one.

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Summary: Garden District rave
Comment: I loved the ambiance of the Garden District in N.O. I nice change from NYC.


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