As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. It lights a fire deep within him that burns white and cold, a quiet flame just waiting to ignite. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets and half-forgotten acts of his past.
Someone is hunting him, targeting his home, his business, and his partner, Angel. The instrument of revenge is Bliss, a killer of killers, the most feared of assassins. Bliss is a Reaper, a lethal tool to be applied toward the ultimate end, but he is also a man with a personal vendetta.
Both hardened by their pasts, Louis and Angel decide to strike back, and although they form a camaraderie that brings them solace, it offers them no other shelter from the fate that stalks them. When they mysteriously disappear , their friends are forced to band together to find them. They are led by private detective Charlie Parker, a killer himself, a Reaper in waiting.
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When word gets around that two of their friends connected to a paid killing years before have been killed, Louis and Angel, two contract killers, feel the pressure to react to an unknown threat. Louis feels the signature of those two killings leads to Bliss, a feared assassin he almost killed a long time ago and who seems to have become the tool of someone whose son Louis and his dead companions assassinated years before.
At the same time Louis home and one of his businesses is targeted by it seems amateur assassins. Among this is Willie Brew's auto shop. A long time ago Louis bought of Willie's dept and offered him to work for him out of his shop or lose the shop for his divorce settlement. Since then Willie is used now and than for what he's best with: repairing cars.
On the night of their attack on Leehagen, the revenging father, they soon discover they were set up to be killed on his huge property, hunted by no one else but Bliss.
When Willie hears about the set-up he connects to private detective Parker and they both begin their journey to rescue their friends.
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It is hard to imagine liking the main characters Louis And Angel being killers but besides this the author didn't really put much effort into it. Even with short journeys into Louis' past and learning how he developed to a Reaper it quite didn't work for me.
So it stays with Willie, who is a like able character, deep in debt with Louis but still considering him a friend who once help him to not lose what he loves the most: his auto shop.
I wish I would find more positive about the book to say except there were no open ends in the ending which wasn't at all surprising and very predictable.
It was a time filler for me, with an interesting plot but still if I hadn't spent 18 bucks on it when I bought it, I probably would have put it away half way through.
Rating:
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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Atria; 1 edition (May 27, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416569529
ISBN-13: 978-1416569527
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