The Hard Hit

by John Wainwright

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425041360
• ISBN13: 9780425041369
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group

Customer Reviews

Inside a hit man

David Fleisher is a professional, dealing, as he puts it, with the same commodity as doctors and midwives, but at the other end. He is hired to remove an inconvience and proceeds to organize to complete the assignment. Told in first person, most of the novel depicts his methodical approach to service delivery, with flashbacks illuminating his early days in the profession. This hit is complicated by the fact that he knows the victim, in fact the victim was his early montor, not that a professional would be deterred by that fact. After all prepartion is complete, Fleisher meets his victim, on Christmas Eve as it turns out, but then, (of course) complications arise, leading to two or three surprising turns before the ultimate conclusion. John Wainwright was a prolific British author in the 1960s and 1970s (and perhaps later). His writing style is not taut, but interest in the prime character and in some secondary characters is maintained. Well worth a read.