The Hit

A gripping and twisting treat of a novel for fans of Tarantino and Elmore Leonard Handsome ladies' man Jonah Maxwell is working as a bounty hunter for El Gordo (the Fat One), who picked up his nickname from an admiring prostitute. Gordo has a to catch a runaway felon who's worth $250,000 to the City of New York. The guys are in hot pursuit of Davis Foerster, a social misfit with a bad habit of murdering little old ladies, when they come across Tyler Gant - Vietnam vet, weapons expert and secret serial killer. Foerster is working on a murderous plot for Gant, and the attentions of Jonah and Gordo are seriously unwelcome. Trailing Foerster to Key West, the two are set for a violent showdown on a houseboat on storm-tossed seas. Not just their own lives but those of Tyler Gant's countless targeted victims are at stake...