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"Readers who aren’t keen on stories about paid assassins probably will pass on this collection, but that’s their loss. For everyone else, it’s a guaranteed hit."—Booklist 492 pages | $23.95 (cloth) | Add to Cart
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These Guns for Hire summary They have a combined total of 500 million book sales, and have won every possible award in the mystery, thriller, and dark fiction genres. Get ready for some wet work! |
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Praise for These Guns for Hire "Why would one person snuff out another for money? This collection of hitmen (and hitwomen) stories offers 31 possible answers, one for each story included, and they range from professional pride to pure inbred dumbness. Authors include both the comparatively unknown (Julie Hyzy, whose "Strictly Business" is all down-and-dirty business) to such stalwarts as Max Allan Collins, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, and David Morrell (whose "The Attitude Adjuster" will ensure you notice the next road construction worker you pass). Brian M. Wiprud offers a brief comic dialog about the quandaries of disposing of a lemur. The many pleasures of pulp are here in abundance, befitting on several levels the anthology's subject. According to the publisher, which has been getting a lot of mileage out of edgy prose lately, the authors represent a combined total of $500 million in book sales. That ought to add up to at least a few requests at your library. For all public libraries."—Library Journal "Niche short-story collections—especially those with a specific theme, in this case hitmen—tend to succeed or fail on the strength of their contributors. In baseball terms, this one has a deep bench: David Morrell, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, Sean Doolittle, William Kent Krueger, Max Allan Collins, and others. The stories fall into a variety of genres (pulp, noir, supernatural, comic), and some of them feature familiar series characters, such as Block’s Keller and Collins’ Quarry. Readers who aren’t keen on stories about paid assassins probably will pass on this collection, but that’s their loss. For everyone else, it’s a guaranteed hit."—Booklist "Sometimes it's good clean fun to commit murder...and if that's not possible, then pick up a copy of THESE GUNS FOR HIRE, thirty stories of hitmen and assassins. From taut thrillers to atmospheric suspense, each story is a tour through the back alley of morality, proving the best stories are like a dagger to the heart. So sharpen that knife and jump on in!"—James Rollins
"Riveting and taut, These Guns For Hire will keep you up at night, not just because many of the stories' hitmen are horrifying, but because some of them are surprisingly sympathetic. Not to be missed."—Tasha Alexander
"These Guns for Hire contains an amazing variety of stories on a single subject: the hitman. You'll find hilarity and cold unflinching horror and every shade between. A Who's-Who list of writers in a must-read collection for fans of crime, suspense, and noir."—F. Paul Wilson |
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J.A. Konrath lives in the Chicago area. Is the author of the popular Jack Daniels mystery series, including Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, and this year's installment, Rusty Nail. He is also the editor of These Guns for Hire, a collection of hitman stories for Bleak House Books |
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