The Killing Kind
Chris Holm
Mulholland Books/Little Brown, Sep 15 2015, $26.00
ISBN: 9780316259538
The Havana-based Corporation mob sends Cuban hitman Javier Cruz to
Miami to take out Edgar Morales for buying property in the slummy Goulds
neighborhood with a plan to gentrify it.
Learning the hit former special ops officer officiously dead in combat
Michael Hendricks and his partner the only other surviving member of his
military unit wheelchair bound Lester determine Morales is ethical. Thus Hendricks offers to murder Cruz if
Morales pays the fee of ten times that of what the Corporation paid their
professional. Applying meticulous
precision to avoid harming innocent bystanders, Hendricks executes the
predator.
American crime syndicates become concerned with the phantom hitman
killing hitmen. Thus their Council
commissions top gun Alexander Engelmann, whose kills include numerous
collateral damage victims, to exterminate the pest. As Engelmann researches his target to
ascertain an Achilles’ heel like a former girlfriend or his brother in arms;
FBI Special Agents Charlotte Thompson and Henry
Garfield hunt both pros though differ in their opinions as to whom the
“ghost” murders.
Setting aside plausibility, The Killing Kind is a fantastic crime
thriller starring the Good (Thompson), the Bad (Hendricks) and the Ugly
(Engelmann). The rival killers and
Charlie in this cat and mouse drama are fully-developed while the appreciative audience
anticipates a wild royal rumble climatic confrontation with no inclination as
to whom will walk away from the final showdown.
Harriet Klausner
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