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Saturday, 20 April 2013

Hit Me – Lawrence Block

The conclusion of Hit and Run found Keller living in a big old house in post-Katrina New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, with a new name (Nicholas Edwards), a new wife (Julia), a new career (rehabbing houses), and a baby on the way. It certainly looked as though he was done killing people for money. Butt old habits die hard, and when the economic downturn knocked out the construction business, a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game. His work takes him to Dallas, to settle a domestic dispute; to Florida, where he joins a government witness on a West Indies cruise; to Wyoming, where a widow has her husband’s stamp collection for sale; and to New York, where he lived for so many years, and where people might remember him.
Unabridged.
Read by Richard Poe.

Friday, 19 April 2013

The Specialists – Lawrence Block

Five ex-soldiers are hired to find and eliminate criminals in the Edgar Award-winning author’s gripping novel. Albert Platt is a rotten man. Bred in the rough parts of Brooklyn, he made his name as a killer and has built a fortune from gambling, loan sharking, and the other pastimes of a standard thug. His latest gambit? Buying banks, robbing them, and collecting the insurance. He’s a hard man, and no one ever stood in his way until he brushed up against Eddie Manso. Manso is no ordinary veteran. He and four other commandos, battle-hardened in the jungles of Laos, have found that the civilian world demands their talents as much as the military once did. These specialists have made a living targeting vicious men whom the law cannot touch, dismantling their empires and taking their plunder. And Albert Platt has just entered their cross-hairs.
Unabridged.
Read by Fred Sullivan.

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Hit Man – Lawrence Block

Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country…and kills somebody. It’s a living. But is it a life? Keller’s not sure. He goes to a shrink, but it doesn’t work out the way he planned. He gets a dog, he gets a girlfriend. He gets along.
Unabridged.
Read by Robert Forster.