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Hit

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I read this one because I had read this author's two earlier books, Smoked and The Takedown. Smoked was fast-moving and fun. The Takedown was darker and moodier. This one, The Hit, is like a car crash between Smoked and The Takedown. It's fast-moving, fun, dark and moody.

It's like Mad Max meets the Housing Crisis. In some near future, after America's economy has collapsed, two bounty hunters, one white and one black, search for a mad scientist who's been hired to make the soup for a bio-terror attack. They smash through one barrier after another, following their prey from New York to Key West, through the post-collapse society. Along the way, they encounter criminal masterminds, enforcers, a bored sexy housewife, and finally wind up in a vicious shoot-out on a houseboat loaded with bio-weapons, that's sinking during a storm at sea. Crazy stuff.

Highly recommended for anyone looking for a fast, funny, exciting, page-turner. I'd recommend Smoked and The Takedown also, especially Smoked.

I'd previously read The Drop Off by Quinlan before finding The Hit. The Hit isn't at all like The Drop Off which was more of a light humorous read full of eccentric characters. The Hit is a lot heavier read, set in a future America where petrol is scare, squatters (now called Bomzhies) are around in huge numbers occupying houses abandoned by those who can no longer afford them setting fires inside to keep themselves warm. An America where unemployment and crime are both occurring in record numbers. The southern states want to seperate from the rest of the US with Georgia as the capital, where racism and lynch mobs again run rife in those streets. Bounty hunting is where you can make enough money to not just pay the bills but get a head a little and that's just what a short obese white guy known as El Gordo and his tall in shape muscular black partner have taken up. Their after the prize of $50 000 dollars (a lot of money in this poverty stricken era) for bringing in a serial rapist and murderer of old ladies named Davis Foerster. Foerster's a pathetic loser, but he does have a high IQ, which is why an ex cop now a tycoon due to his skills at undertaking genocide for money used his services in the past to deliver an anthrax postal surprise. Now the game is cholera, to be used by another wealthy island inhabitant who wants to kill off the local population as they are uprising and planning on overthrowing him and his estate which has exploited them for years.

The Hit is a good read, could though have just been set in the present as the plot doesn't really go anywhere with the Mad Max style setting and everything that occurs, could have occurred in the real world.

Another riveting crime novel by Patrick Quinlan! Once again we are drawn into the fast-paced world of Mr. Quinlan. I wasn't able to put it down until it was done. Highly recommend it!