Killshot (New Portway Large Print Books)

by Elmore Leonard

Half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian, the Blackbird is a professional: one shot, one kill. So when trigger-happy Richie Nix hijacks the Blackbird's Cadillac and takes him for a ride to extort $10,000 from an estate agent, it's unfortunate that a veteran ironworker and his smart wife get in their way. One of the Blackbird's rules is never to leave living witnesses...'A genuine sense of the dangerous edge of things which induces frenzied page-turning' - "Observer".

• ISBN10: 0670822582
• ISBN13: 9780670822584
• Publish Date: 16 October 1989 (first published 1 April 1989)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 9 June 1994
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Viking
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

That first chapter. It’s a masterpiece. That’s how you open a book. I never get tired of reading it. It could be a whole book in itself.

Original review, December 2012:

Carmen and Wayne, Richie Nix and the Bird, everybody driving each other stir crazy. Killshot is full of talk talk talk and that’s a great thing, because all I want to do is listen to these conversations all day.

And it’s this batch of books that makes me want to go back and audit some of the ratings I’ve given this year. If these get adjusted, it’s only up, not down.

Re-read July 2014:

Richie and the Bird have to be one of Elmore’s best pairings. Carmen and Wayne have to be one of his best marriages. But Carmen herself, boy oh boy. She’s the best.