Josh Bazell - Beat the Reaper
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 7, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0316032220 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 0.3 mb + 0.4 mb
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 7, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0316032220 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 0.3 mb + 0.4 mb
Making a hit man turned medical intern a sympathetic figure would be a tall order for most authors, but first-time novelist Bazell makes it look easy in this breezy and darkly comic suspense novel. The Locanos, a mob family, take in 14-year-old Pietro Brwna (pronounced Browna) after a couple of thugs gun down the grandparents who raised him in their New Jersey home. Bent on revenge, Pietro pursues the killers and executes them a year later. Impressed by Pietros performance, David Locano recruits Pietro as a hit man. After more traumas, Pietro tries to make a break from his past by entering the witness protection program. Now known as Peter Brown, he eventually lands a position as a doctor at a decrepit Manhattan hospital, where by chance a former Mafia associate turns up as a patient and threatens to rat him out. The hero's wry narrative voice, coupled with Bazells artful use of flashbacks to sustain tension and fill in Pietro's past, are a winning combination.
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