Hit Man

detour from the mainstream
will want to pick up Hit Man .”
Chicago Tribune
    LAWRENCE BLOCK
    “One of the very best writers now working the beat.”
The Wall Street Journal

ALSO BY LAWRENCE BLOCK
    The Matthew Scudder Novels
The Sins of the Fathers • Time to Murder and Create • In the Midst of Death • A Stab in the Dark • Eight Million Ways to Die • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes • Out on the Cutting Edge • A Ticket to the Boneyard • A Dance at the Slaughterhouse • A Walk Among the Tombstones • The Devil Knows You’re Dead • A Long Line of Dead Men • Even the Wicked • Everybody Dies • Hope to Die
    The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries
Burglars Can’t Be Choosers • The Burglar in the Closet • The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling • The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza • The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian • The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams • The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart • The Burglar in the Library • The Burglar in the Rye
    The Adventures of Evan Tanner
The Thief Who Couldn’t Sleep • The Canceled Czech • Tanner’s Twelve Swingers • Two for Tanner • Tanner’s Tiger • Here Comes a Hero • Me Tanner, You Jane • Tanner on Ice
    The Affairs of Chip Harrison
No Score • Chip Harrison Scores Again • Make Out with Murder • The Topless Tulip Caper
    Keller’s Greatest Hits
Hit Man • Hit List
    Other Novels
After the First Death • Ariel • Coward’s Kiss • Deadly Honeymoon • The Girl with the Long Green Heart • Mona • Not Comin’ Home to You • Random Walk • Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man • The Specialists • Such Men Are Dangerous • The Triumph of Evil • You Could Call It Murder
    Collected Short Stories
Sometimes They Bite • Like a Lamb to Slaughter • Some Days You Get the Bear • Ehrengraf for the Defense • One Night Stands • The Lost Cases of Ed London • Enough Rope
    Books for Writers
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print • Telling Lies for Fun & Profit • Write for Your Life • Spider, Spin Me a Web
    Anthologies Edited
Death Cruise • Master’s Choice • Opening Shots • Master’s Choice 2 • Speaking of Lust • Opening Shots 2 • Speaking of Greed

Copyright
    “Answers to Soldier,” “Keller’s Therapy,” “Dogs Walked, Plants Watered,” “Keller’s Karma,” “Keller in Shining Armor,” “Keller on the Spot,” and “Keller’s Last Refuge” originally appeared in Playboy magazine.
    HIT MAN. Copyright© 1998 by Lawrence Block. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    ePub edition © May 2003 ISBN: 9780061796685
    First Avon Twilight Printing: February 1999.
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