This dark story describes the life and lack of anything beyond the job, of a contract killer. He fulfills orders to eliminate a person someone wants dead.Leonard Carter, a former Special Forces member, has returned from overseas and has been working as a hit man.
He completes the hit on a mob figure who, at the time of the hit, was with Angela Tamanaka, a beautiful woman who worked as a prostitute at an escort service.
Carter doesn't harm Angela and tells her that she might be questioned about being with the man who was shot but she isn't to say anything.
The subject of the hit was Ricky Ditto and now his brother, Bobby, who is also a gangster, wants revenge.
The author is a former cab driver in New York and writes about the streets as if he was standing on the corner. He is also adept at describing the life of a hit man, the manner in which they get their subjects, and,. in this case, the moral side.
Carter and Angela end up working together to save Angela from the gangsters and we see two very different worlds come together.
I found the characterization to be insubstantial and the plot has been done before.
I have read other work by the author and enjoy his writing style but this book missed the mark.
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