Hit and Run

Hit and Run
Author(s): Lawrence Block

For years now Keller's had places to go and people to kill.

But enough is enough. Just one more job—paid in advance—and he's going to retire. Waiting in Des Moines for the client's go-ahead, Keller's picking out stamps for his collection at a shop in Urbandale when somebody guns down the charismatic governor of Ohio. Back at his motel, Keller sees the killer's face broadcast on TV. A face he's seen quite often. Every morning. In the mirror.

Keller calls his associate Dot in White Plains, but there's no answer. He's stranded halfway across the country, and every cop in America has just seen his picture. His ID and credit cards are no longer good, and he just spent almost all of his cash on the stamps.

Now what?

Review(s):
“A knockout. . . . Block delivers a one-two punch of humor and introspection.”
“One of the best novels of the summer season. Block remains a true master of the crime genre.”
“If there is one crime writer currently capable of matching the noirish legacies of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, it’s Lawrence Block.”
“Block treats both his unlikely hero’s initial flight and his attempt to establish a new identity in such painstaking detail that they become riveting....From the first, Keller assumes this hit will be his last case. Readers can only hope it isn’t so.”
“Brisk, suspenseful, and funny.”
“Block’s trademark blend of humor and violence is a good fit for the deadpan Keller. . . . One of the crime genre’s most unusual antiheroes.”
“The wry observations throughout, uttered by Keller as well as the other two main characters, will keep you smiling until your cheeks hurt.”
“An odd and appealing combination of the hard-boiled, the surreal and the whimsical. Keller grows on us.”
“[An] engrossing thriller”
“Crazy, good fun, crafted by an experienced mystery writer who should never put down his pen.”



ISBN:  9780060840914