A Gun for Sale
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the...
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Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143039303 (014303930X)
Publish date: August 30th 2005
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
"MURDER DIDN’T MEAN much to Raven. It was just a new job . You had to be careful. You had to use your brains. It was not a question of hatred. He had only seen the Minister once: he had been pointed out to Raven as he walked down the new housing estate between the small lit Christmas trees, an old g...
bookshelves: tbr-busting-2014, published-1936, autumn-2014, mystery-thriller, lit-richer, fraudio, noir, paranoia, disfigurement, suicide, gangsters, assassination, filthy-lucre, war, picaresque, chase-me-chase-me Read from September 01 to 04, 2014 Read by Patrick TullDescription: Raven is a man...
A Gun for Sale and This Gun for Hire are the same book originally published in 1936. I looked but could not find why it was published under two separate names and am relatively sure different dates. The library book I read was This Gun for Hire. I haven’t read that the books are different in any ...
When a hare-lipped assassin named Raven is paid for a job with stolen cash, he becomes wanted for robbery and goes on the run with a hostage named Anne.I was not a tremendous fan of This Gun for Hire. The book read like it had an identity crisis of sorts, like it didn't know whether it wanted to be...
Good old fashion noir thriller that still holds up today to the test of time.
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