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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Wayne y Carmen Colson están en el momento equivocado en el lugar equivocado. En una pequeña ciudad en mitad de la nada en el estado de Michigan son testigos indeseados de una extorsión. Pero, además, Wayne tampoco debería haber zurrado y puesto en vergüenza a los dos matones. Armand Degas y Richie Nix. Mala gente. Y mala suerte, viene a decirles la policía. Para los Colson, que a partir de entonces no tendrán tregua, envueltos en una pesadilla, sometidos a una persecución mortal. This was an interesting book, but the story itself wasn't really very good, and the ending seemed anti-climatic to me. It was the characters and their interactions that made it interesting. There was a slightly dumb but seemingly OK contract killer who meets up with a totally dumb punk criminal who likes talking about shooting people, and actually does, often for no reason at all. They decide on an extortion scheme that goes wrong because they assume a guy sitting in the boss's office is the boss they had already contacted. This guy, an iron-worker, is kind of dumb too, and isn't as afraid of them as he should be. But he and his wife saw the bad guys, so they become loose ends. The story moves along from one crazy situation to another until it just kind of dies. No big surprises in that department. I liked the dark humor, which seems typical of Elmore Leonard, and I look forward to reading more of his books. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway." --Newsweek The New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette once called, "the Alexander the Great of crime fiction," Elmore Leonard is responsible for creating some of the sharpest dialogue, most compelling characters (including U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV's Justified fame), and, quite simply, some of the very best suspense novels written over the past century. Killshot is prime Leonard--a riveting story of a husband and wife caught in the crossfire when they foil a criminal act and are forced to defend themselves when the legal system fails them from the murderous wrath of a pair of vengeful killers. When it comes to cops and criminals stories, Killshot and Leonard are as good as it gets--further proof why "the King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) deserves his current place among John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and the other legendary greats of the noir fiction genre. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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