A Killing Kiss
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VELUV12 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Top-notch Crime Fiction B.R. Stateham's contract killer Smitty is not a guy you want as an enemy. He's smart, deadly and utterly ruthless.In A KILLING KISS, Smitty is called upon to satisfy an agreement made to a friend - now-deceased crime syndicate boss Jacob Menten. Menten, who knew that upon his death the battle for control of his empire would be fierce and potentially deadly to his young wife and baby son, had the foresight to extract a promise from Smitty to keep his family safe when he was gone.When Smitty shows up after Menten's death, he's thrust immediatel. "Highly Recommended" according to Richard Godwin. A Killing Kiss is a hard blast of pure Noir, with hard boiled prose and a punch in the face, B R Stateham's latest novel is as well executed as a hit from a mechanic, mixing Dashiel Hammett with an extremely real sense of danger.. "Smitty's Killing Kiss Off" according to William E. Wallace. Smitty is a dark-eyed crook who dishes out violence like a volunteer ladles soup in a Tenderloin mission. He's a hit-man for hire, but in B. R. Stateham's novella, A Killing Kiss, he is tasked with preserving life, not taking it.Despite his humanitarian assignment, there are plenty of victims of his expertise with gun and knife in Stateham's tersely pulpy blood-letter.As the book opens, Smitty has been retained to protect the wife and infant child of a mob boss who died suddenly under suspicious circumstances.No, not the kind of suspicious ci
Add in a top notch-plot, with twists and turns and an ending you won't see coming, and you have a winning recipe for a crime fiction novella that will keep the reader compulsively turning the pages right up to the final resolution." Allan Leverone (author of The Lonely Mile, Final Vector and Paskangankee)13 crime novellas from 13 different authors - numberthirteenpress. In it's short length, A Killing Kiss gives the reader everything, another triumph from Number 13 Press!" -Aidan Thorn (author of Criminal Thoughts and Urban Decay)"Top notch crime fiction: B.R Stateham's Smitty is not a guy you want as an enemy. An Innocent Child.When Jacob Menten is murdered, the battle to take his place at the head of a brutal crime syndicate will be long and bloody. But then, Smitty is a hitman of exceptional talent"A Killing Kiss is classic pulp material -- quick, action-filled, violent. Wallace (author of Dead Heat with the Reaper)"Fast and furious, Stateham
The idea came to him quite early in life that he wanted to be a writer. Clarke and Isaac Asimov in science fiction, the author’s imagination was profoundly and permanently affected. Growing up reading the likes of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammitt and Ed McBain in the detective genre, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. He’s been working at it ever since. . Stateham is the author of several Smitty books and the Turner Hahn/Frank Morales detective
Sure, I agree; there are a lot of hit man characters out there we all could name, and we all enjoy following. But the moment the first sentence was written describing him, I knew this creation was going to last. Eventually, I think you will agree with me. But there's no one like Smitty. 'Smitty' is one of my creations. From the Author My name is B.R. Stateham. I'm a sixty-five year old kid who loves to write genre fiction. He started out as a simple writing exercise on a writer's web site.