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The New York Times bestselling author and master of the present day mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, KellerJohn Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A genuine pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business enterprise partner, the retiree with a considerable legacy. He's taken care of all of them, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you find yourself thinking about each subject not as a person to be killed but as problems to be solved. There are guys repeating this who manage it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to be on living and another deserves to acquire his life ended. Sometimes I think about things like that, but so far as working it all out in my own mind, well, I never appear to get anywhere."But while Keller might be considered a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also susceptible to doubts and loneliness exactly like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. Your dog. Even a woman. And even though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his valuable stamp collection, these days, it doesn't appear to be adequate.Keller's been at this business a long while. Just maybe it's time to pack it in and find a nice little house in the desert. Only problem is, retirement takes money. Also to get money, he's surely got to go to work. . . . Hit Parade, the 3rd novel featuring the fascinating Keller, displays the hallmarks that distinguish Lawrence Block's award-winning fiction: the intelligence, the clever plotting, the humor, the tricky twists and ironic turns, the darkness and emotional complexity -- and, most of all, the humanity.
