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Hit Man Run
On a chilly March night in central London, male escort Toby Colton enters a hotel to meet a wealthy client. Little does he realize that his client is on a hit list and, at the end of the night, he is running through the streets in a desperate attempt to escape death. But, no matter where he runs, no matter how carefully he covers his tracks, he comes to realize that the only way out is to confront the assassin. Troubled by the dark eyed witness, but careful to keep the loose end a secret from his boss, hitman Brock embarks on a personal mission to seek Toby out. Uncertain of his own future, and struggling with latent desires, he finds himself torn between lust and duty and an intense attraction for Toby. Will Brock be able to escape his brutal life and find peace? Is Toby prepared to meet his death? Or will he become as dangerous as Brock and take matters into his own hands? Both men must face their worst fears in order to survive….
- GenresM M Romance
240 pages, Paperback
Published June 21, 2016
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August 20, 2016
As one would expect by the title and the blurb, first and foremost, this story is a thriller. Someone dies very early on, which sets the stage for all the questions of, how, why, and who. I say ‘how’ as the way he died isn’t clear cut and a cover up quickly follows.
Unfortunately, gay for pay Toby was in the bathroom at the time of the crime. Brock soon discovers there’s a loose thread and sets about finding him. There’s an instant attraction between the men, which I got to a degree, but also struggle with given the high stakes.
Sex follows, and they don’t need condoms because Toby has always used them and, well, Brock’s never been with a man. The two enter into a relationship and both end up on the run, and Brock trains Toby in combat. Some of which truly stretched my imagination.
The reader is taken on a journey of both main characters’ childhoods, they were vastly different, yet as tragic at the same time.
The author has descriptive way of storytelling, but for me personally, I found it a little over done and at times slowed the plot down. Not so much as setting the scene, but the abundance of similes. “Brocks stomach clenched like a bag of milk. His stomach inflated like a hippo’s. A patch of moisture, like warm glue…
The ending left me totally unsatisfied. The fact I didn’t become invested in the characters should’ve meant I didn’t care, so maybe I did… just a little.
Readers who enjoy, whodunit type thrillers with a bitter-sweet ending, or is it a cliff-hanger? Will probably enjoy ‘Hit Man Run.
Copy provided in exchange for an honest review
Unfortunately, gay for pay Toby was in the bathroom at the time of the crime. Brock soon discovers there’s a loose thread and sets about finding him. There’s an instant attraction between the men, which I got to a degree, but also struggle with given the high stakes.
Sex follows, and they don’t need condoms because Toby has always used them and, well, Brock’s never been with a man. The two enter into a relationship and both end up on the run, and Brock trains Toby in combat. Some of which truly stretched my imagination.
The reader is taken on a journey of both main characters’ childhoods, they were vastly different, yet as tragic at the same time.
The author has descriptive way of storytelling, but for me personally, I found it a little over done and at times slowed the plot down. Not so much as setting the scene, but the abundance of similes. “Brocks stomach clenched like a bag of milk. His stomach inflated like a hippo’s. A patch of moisture, like warm glue…
The ending left me totally unsatisfied. The fact I didn’t become invested in the characters should’ve meant I didn’t care, so maybe I did… just a little.
Readers who enjoy, whodunit type thrillers with a bitter-sweet ending, or is it a cliff-hanger? Will probably enjoy ‘Hit Man Run.
Copy provided in exchange for an honest review
June 29, 2016
I was given a copy of this book by the author for my honest review.
This story just did not work for me at all. I found the writing simplistic and bland. I had to force myself to finish the second half only because I owed it to Mr. Dalton. The two main characters, Brock and Toby, were both flat and one dimensional. Throughout the entire cat and mouse game, neither of them showed any true emotion or verve. I'd expect some emotion when you are running for your life. The sex scenes were dull even though Toby was a professional prostitute. The sudden change in Toby toward the end did not seem plausible at all. The story read quickly for it's 400 pages because there were really no plot twists or turns. I heartily recommend that readers pass this stinker up.
This story just did not work for me at all. I found the writing simplistic and bland. I had to force myself to finish the second half only because I owed it to Mr. Dalton. The two main characters, Brock and Toby, were both flat and one dimensional. Throughout the entire cat and mouse game, neither of them showed any true emotion or verve. I'd expect some emotion when you are running for your life. The sex scenes were dull even though Toby was a professional prostitute. The sudden change in Toby toward the end did not seem plausible at all. The story read quickly for it's 400 pages because there were really no plot twists or turns. I heartily recommend that readers pass this stinker up.
July 24, 2017
Omg wow i couldn't put this down, a gripping suspense drama romance story that had me gluded to pages. This was my second book from this author and I'm glad i reunited with his fantastic stories again. The storyline is different to others I've read with bad and the good guys but I'm noting this has a happy for now ending.
Toby landed in london at 18yrs old 3 years ago dreamt of being a model. Now he was meeting clients as an escort for money. His rich elderly client passed out but he had a intruder in the room while Toby in the bathroom watching him enter. Dead his client had just been killed and the intuder saw him. Fleeing was the only option he had..
Brock cursed his job was botched up now with a witness seeing him kill. His contact Blake or someone had stuffed it from start.. Highly recommended and I'm very much wanting the next part of these gorgeous guys story.
Toby landed in london at 18yrs old 3 years ago dreamt of being a model. Now he was meeting clients as an escort for money. His rich elderly client passed out but he had a intruder in the room while Toby in the bathroom watching him enter. Dead his client had just been killed and the intuder saw him. Fleeing was the only option he had..
Brock cursed his job was botched up now with a witness seeing him kill. His contact Blake or someone had stuffed it from start.. Highly recommended and I'm very much wanting the next part of these gorgeous guys story.
October 9, 2016
Reviewed for GGR-Review :
Hit man Run by Rob Damon has taken me a while to fully figure out, and that isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes there are just elements about a book that need so to be mulled over before they settle and you know how you feel about them. Hit man Run is such a book. The opening scene is heart racing and makes you spurt whatever it is you have in your mouth out, so I do not recommend having anything to drink with this one, at least in the beginning.
However, there is a but, his book has one flaw but it’s just one, and that is what took me a while to figure out because it really is a great story so pinpointing what bugged me wasn’t crystal clear from the get-go. The story isn’t what I call deep enough. Bear with me here before you hit me square in the jaw. It’s a suspense novel, a really good suspense novel and the ending is so bloody fantastic I could have kissed Rob Damon when I finished it. The end was what made me grin like a fool because it proved something to me that Rob Damon wants to write stories that stand out. This is a really great suspense and thriller book that anyone, LGBT reader or not, can read and enjoy and really that isn’t too shabby at all because suspense is hard to write because you need all that action evened out with some soothing calmness that still fits the story so the reader gets a breather now and then. Rob Damon manages this just fine and this is where this tiny flaw shows.
The side story to this grand suspense story is the personal relationship between Brock and Toby, I personally have a thing for broken souls with fierce personalities and therefore got very attached to Toby quite quickly, the flaw, however, is that I sometimes felt as if there was something missing, like I didn’t quite get why (here we go again with me having to know why) Brock especially acted and reacted the way he did. Damon let us find out enough that you don’t miss the point of the story, or wonder what all the things happening between these two where they come from, the story is fully fleshed but a why asking reader like I would have loved some more in depth knowledge. It would have helped deepen Brock’s personality to us, the reader, and to learn more about his past and especially known more about his relationship with his boss. Even Toby was pretty anonymous if you didn’t include the here and now, but who is he? Where did he come from so to speak? Even though he was a spitfire, to say the least with, what I personally love, sarcastic and dark sort of humor.
But again there was enough background story to not keep you guessing and it was the action story, the suspense that made you turn page after page to see what would happen next. Will Toby and Brock fix things or not? Will they get caught or slip away? What about Mason and his gang? And so on and so forth.
And it is worth saying again, the ending was bloody brilliant, the fact that Rob Damon ended things the way he did, again, proves that he is interested in writing books that are real and not made up of rose resplendent glass because that sell books. Rob Damon has made me curious and I am very much looking forward to reading something else by him!
Hit man Run by Rob Damon has taken me a while to fully figure out, and that isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes there are just elements about a book that need so to be mulled over before they settle and you know how you feel about them. Hit man Run is such a book. The opening scene is heart racing and makes you spurt whatever it is you have in your mouth out, so I do not recommend having anything to drink with this one, at least in the beginning.
However, there is a but, his book has one flaw but it’s just one, and that is what took me a while to figure out because it really is a great story so pinpointing what bugged me wasn’t crystal clear from the get-go. The story isn’t what I call deep enough. Bear with me here before you hit me square in the jaw. It’s a suspense novel, a really good suspense novel and the ending is so bloody fantastic I could have kissed Rob Damon when I finished it. The end was what made me grin like a fool because it proved something to me that Rob Damon wants to write stories that stand out. This is a really great suspense and thriller book that anyone, LGBT reader or not, can read and enjoy and really that isn’t too shabby at all because suspense is hard to write because you need all that action evened out with some soothing calmness that still fits the story so the reader gets a breather now and then. Rob Damon manages this just fine and this is where this tiny flaw shows.
The side story to this grand suspense story is the personal relationship between Brock and Toby, I personally have a thing for broken souls with fierce personalities and therefore got very attached to Toby quite quickly, the flaw, however, is that I sometimes felt as if there was something missing, like I didn’t quite get why (here we go again with me having to know why) Brock especially acted and reacted the way he did. Damon let us find out enough that you don’t miss the point of the story, or wonder what all the things happening between these two where they come from, the story is fully fleshed but a why asking reader like I would have loved some more in depth knowledge. It would have helped deepen Brock’s personality to us, the reader, and to learn more about his past and especially known more about his relationship with his boss. Even Toby was pretty anonymous if you didn’t include the here and now, but who is he? Where did he come from so to speak? Even though he was a spitfire, to say the least with, what I personally love, sarcastic and dark sort of humor.
But again there was enough background story to not keep you guessing and it was the action story, the suspense that made you turn page after page to see what would happen next. Will Toby and Brock fix things or not? Will they get caught or slip away? What about Mason and his gang? And so on and so forth.
And it is worth saying again, the ending was bloody brilliant, the fact that Rob Damon ended things the way he did, again, proves that he is interested in writing books that are real and not made up of rose resplendent glass because that sell books. Rob Damon has made me curious and I am very much looking forward to reading something else by him!
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