Hitman
Published on 4. July 2013
304 pages
978-1-4447-5196-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 options:
1. 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.
You have two options:
1. 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.
Reviews / Votes
A sure-fire hit * Evening Standard * The first-person perspective is turned upside down, creating a hypnotic world of adrenaline and paranoia, where nothing is certain. A non-stop sprint to the end * The Times * A black, comic homage to William S. Burroughs * Daily Telegraph * A meeting of minds between Elmore Leonard and Timothy Leary...bonkers as you like and more fun than chasing the dragon wth the Happy Mondays * List * It's a high-speed, surreal...trip * Face * Funny, violent and surreal...Hitman will blow you away * Howard Marks * Fast-paced and decidedly over-the-limit * Mirror * A comic-crawl through a spliffed-out London clubland * Guardian *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4447-5196-3 (9781444751963)
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Person
Max Kinnings was born in Boningale in Shropshire in 1966. He attended Shrewsbury School before moving to London at the age of 18 to study Criminology as part of a Social Science degree at the Polytechnic of Central London where he also pursued his childhood ambition to write fiction. Having lived in London for twenty-five years, in 2009, Max moved with his family to Oxford.
