Michael Prescott

Hitman Michael Prescott

Yet another spellbinding thriller from award-winning author Michael Prescott, HITMAN is a taut, fast-paced page-turner, a classic tale of "man versus himself" in the exalted tradition of hard-boiled crime stories and literary noir. Charlie Kearns is a cold-blooded assassin for hire, exterminating "undesirables" for cold, hard cash. But he's also hiding a terrible secret, a crippling addiction which could prove his ultimate downfall. Can he cover it up, and escape a bullet to his own heaad - or will his insatiable obsession backfire? MICHAEL PRESCOTT is the author of more than twenty books, including a dozen novels and four collections of short stories. He lives and writes on the West Coast.