Hit Me (John Keller #5 - Lawrence Block
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Crime
A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes its hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living., But when the nations economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards on his drivers license and credit cards, but hes back to being the man he always was: Keller., Kellers work takes him to New York, the former home he hasnt dared revisit, where his target is the abbot of a midtown monastery. Another call puts him on a West Indies cruise, with several interesting fellow passengers-the government witness, the incandescent young woman keeping the witness company, and, sharing Kellers cabin, his wife, Julia. But the high drama comes in Cheyenne, where a recent widow is looking to sell her husbands stamp collection
