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Hitman
A paranoid, reclusive old woman offers you a hundred grand to kill someone. Trouble is, you're no silent assasin and your target is a man endowed with enormous psychic powers. And yes...he quite clearly knows what you're up to. You have two Decline the offer. 2. Get a gun, get smashed out of your brain on every drug you can lay your hands on and hit the streets in your souped-up Beamer whilst your "hit" draws you deeper into his bizarre hallucinatory world. The choice is yours. Taking in the sights and sounds of modern London as seen through the bleary eyes of our (tragi-)comic (anti-)hero, HITMAN is inhabited by a cast of grotesque movers and shakers, casualties and misfits, all of them scattered from the corrosive underbelly of the showbiz dream.
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304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2002
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December 27, 2017
Ladfic. Tries too hard, appealing to the short attention span, neglecting character development in favour of racing plot, grossness and swearing. Funny in places.
February 1, 2013
We recently got new book shelves and while moving stuff from the old to the new I found this book. I have no memory of buying it or how long I've had it, but thought now would be a good time to give it a go.
An excellent read written from someone who obviously took part in all the drugs and sex of London in the 90's.
Strange that the main location is a block of flats that I know about 4 people who live in it. The way the story builds and the piss taking out of poor or not so poor bands is spot on. I certainly recognize a few of the characters which makes this rather surreal book pretty believable for a good part of the story.
An excellent read written from someone who obviously took part in all the drugs and sex of London in the 90's.
Strange that the main location is a block of flats that I know about 4 people who live in it. The way the story builds and the piss taking out of poor or not so poor bands is spot on. I certainly recognize a few of the characters which makes this rather surreal book pretty believable for a good part of the story.
April 7, 2015
Be prepared for this book to get quite trippy and weird.
An easy read.
The first half of the book was quite enjoyable and amusing.
In the second half, I got a bit frustrated with the main character, who seemed to think his only defence against the bad guy was to take class A drugs, which he did repeatedly resort to; which would've been fine if he didn't then keep saying how much harder it was to actually do anything and if it had actually had anything other than a negative effect! It seemed almost like the author just wanted the character to be a heavy drug user and so kept making him take them, without it being in any way helpful for the plot.
An easy read.
The first half of the book was quite enjoyable and amusing.
In the second half, I got a bit frustrated with the main character, who seemed to think his only defence against the bad guy was to take class A drugs, which he did repeatedly resort to; which would've been fine if he didn't then keep saying how much harder it was to actually do anything and if it had actually had anything other than a negative effect! It seemed almost like the author just wanted the character to be a heavy drug user and so kept making him take them, without it being in any way helpful for the plot.
July 18, 2012
I enjoyed reading Hit Man, enough to make me read The Fixer.
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