Yet another spellbinding thriller from award-winning author Michael Prescott, HITMAN is a taut, fast-paced page-turner, a classic tale of "man on the run" in the exalted tradition of hard-boiled crime stories and literary noir.
Charlie Kearns is a cold-blooded assassin for hire, exterminating "undesirables" for cold, hard cash. But he's also hiding a terrible secret, a crippling addiction which could prove his ultimate downfall. Can he cover it up, and escape a bullet to his own heaad - or will his insatiable obsession backfire?
MICHAEL PRESCOTT is the author of more than twenty books, including a dozen novels and four collections of short stories. He lives and writes on the West Coast.
Douglas Borton grew up in New Jersey and attended Wesleyan University, then moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career as a screenwriter. After working with several independent producers, he eventually switched to writing novels, a much less stressful occupation. He has published 25 thrillers, starting with horror novels in the 1980s and continuing with suspense and crime novels in the '90s and beyond. His latest book is Bad to the Bone (2015), a sequel to Blood in the Water (2014). After twenty years in traditional publishing, he went the indie route in 2011 and has become one of America's bestselling ebook writers.