Shotgun Opera
Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling....
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Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling. Mike’s nephew Andrew needs to disappear, and he needs to do it yesterday. Hanging with the wrong kind of friends, he’s seen something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s running for his life with an assassin on his trail. The consummate professional hit woman, Nikki Enders is the most lethal of a deadly sisterhood. And Andrew Foley is next on her extermination list. Unless Uncle Mike can stop her. As kill teams descend on Foley’s farm, one pissed-off ex—tough guy is about to take a final, all-or-nothing stand with shotguns blazing....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780440241713 (0440241715)
ASIN: 440241715
Publish date: April 25th 2006
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
John Woo plus Robert Rodriguez in book form…I know, I know, suspension of disbelief is a must when reading one of Gischler’s books. Nevertheless I kind of got into the book. For the life of me I couldn’t put it down.As usual there was what I call a Gischler character: the young naïve Andrew Foyle ge...
I’ve read three Gishler books now, and this, I suspect, may be my favorite. It’s a wonderful parody of the hit man novels becoming so prevalent. You have hitmen chasing hitmen, chasing hitwomen, all in a madcap over-the-top set of scenes. Every possible caricature is presented: a dysfunctional famil...