Lawrence Block: Hit List (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming yet, when it arrives, it is irrefutable: Someone out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way onto somebody else's hit list.

Lawrence Block: Hit List. Harpertorch, ISBN: 0061030996 (February, 2002), 384 p., $7.99.

Lawrence Block: Hit List (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
Sequel to Block's previous work, Hit Man, a gripping insight into the life of a paid assassin who finds his way on to someone else's hit list.
Superficially, John Keller leads a normal life, despite his profession as an assassin. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organises his 'jobs' and who reassures his grumbling conscience. He is an obsessive stamp collector. In a blackly comic twist, he even gets called for jury service. Laid back, couldn't care less, morally distanced from his vocation, Keller is an intriguing character.

And then Keller's jobs start to go wrong. Targets die before he can get to them. Gradually he realises that he is being stalked. Another hitman is trying to weed out the competition and kill him. Keller and Dot try to turn the tables but how many innocents will get caught in the crossfire before Keller is truly safe?

Lawrence Block: Hit List. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752844245 (November, 2001), 343 p., £5.99.

Lawrence Block: Hit List (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Keller is a regular guy, a solid citizen. He goes to the movies, watches the tube, browses the art galleries, and works diligently on his stamp collection. But every now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off to kill a total stranger. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and gets back before the body is cold.

He's a real pro, cool and dispassionate and very good at what he does. Until one day when Dot breaks her own rule and books him for a hit in New York, his home base. She sends him to an art gallery opening, and the girl he gets lucky with steers him to an astrologer. He's a Gemini, his moon's in Taurus... and he's got a murderer's thumb.

Then the jobs start to go wrong. Targets die before he can draw a bead on them. The realization is slow in coming, but there's no getting around it: Somebody out there is trying to hit the hit man. Keller, God help him, has found his way on to somebody else's hit list.

Lawrence Block: Hit List. William Morrow, ISBN: 0060198338 (November, 2000), 296 p., $25.00.

Lawrence Block: Hit List (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
Lawrence Block, a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, reunites us with the compelling anti-hero of Hit Man.

Keller is a cool, competent, consummate professional. A killer.

But who would know? He leads a tranquil personal life, working diligently on his stamp collection. Now and then a call from the breezily efficient Dot sends him off on a job. He takes a plane, rents a car, finds a hotel room, and comes back when the job is done.

But then Dot books him for a job in New York, his home base. And then he meets a kooky artist who tells him he's got a murderer's thumb. Next thing you know he's listening to an astrologer telling him his moon's in Taurus.

And the jobs start to go wrong. Targets die before he can get to them. The realization is slow coming, but there's no getting around it. Keller, God help him, has found his way onto somebody else's hit list.

Lawrence Block: Hit List. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752838385 (October, 2000), 296 p., £16.99.