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Screenwriter Haas's debut features a darkly compelling narrator. When a young hit man who refers to himself as Columbus learns his next job is to assassinate presidential candidate Abe Mann, Columbus is not taken aback so much by Mann's national prominence as he is by the key role Mann once played in Columbus's past. Soon Columbus realizes that those behind the plot appear to be setting somebody else up as well—himself. The suspense builds as Columbus goes about his business, all the while detailing his accomplishments, his acuity, his nerve, his intelligence. Then he does something so unlikely that the reader immediately realizes that whatever the author intended, this is a narrator too unreliable to listen to, much less trust. Still, those looking for a downbeat political fable during the current election season may be satisfied. (July)
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He’s known only as Columbus, and he’s a contract killer. He lives only in the present; his past is a horror, and only a whimsical God controls the future. In his narrow world, he’s a star, what Russian criminals call a silver bear; he never fails, and he seems immune to the stresses of his work. But his next job will be his toughest. Kill the Speaker of the House, who is also a leading presidential candidate—and Columbus’ father. Columbus narrates his own story, alternately describing his preparations to kill and a tragic youth of abusive foster homes and juvenile detention. Much of the book is engaging, and the body count is more than adequate, but ultimately The Silver Bear strains credulity too many times (e.g., in scenes of Columbus’ recruitment into contract murder and in the number of times he is shot but still makes his getaway). But foreign rights have already been sold in England, Italy, and Germany, and this one is likely to attract a lot of attention. Not a bull’s-eye, to be sure, but still worth a look. --Thomas Gaughan
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Screenwriter Haas's debut features a darkly compelling narrator. When a young hit man who refers to himself as Columbus learns his next job is to assassinate presidential candidate Abe Mann, Columbus is not taken aback so much by Mann's national prominence as he is by the key role Mann once played in Columbus's past. Soon Columbus realizes that those behind the plot appear to be setting somebody else up as well—himself. The suspense builds as Columbus goes about his business, all the while detailing his accomplishments, his acuity, his nerve, his intelligence. Then he does something so unlikely that the reader immediately realizes that whatever the author intended, this is a narrator too unreliable to listen to, much less trust. Still, those looking for a downbeat political fable during the current election season may be satisfied. (July)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
He’s known only as Columbus, and he’s a contract killer. He lives only in the present; his past is a horror, and only a whimsical God controls the future. In his narrow world, he’s a star, what Russian criminals call a silver bear; he never fails, and he seems immune to the stresses of his work. But his next job will be his toughest. Kill the Speaker of the House, who is also a leading presidential candidate—and Columbus’ father. Columbus narrates his own story, alternately describing his preparations to kill and a tragic youth of abusive foster homes and juvenile detention. Much of the book is engaging, and the body count is more than adequate, but ultimately The Silver Bear strains credulity too many times (e.g., in scenes of Columbus’ recruitment into contract murder and in the number of times he is shot but still makes his getaway). But foreign rights have already been sold in England, Italy, and Germany, and this one is likely to attract a lot of attention. Not a bull’s-eye, to be sure, but still worth a look. --Thomas Gaughan
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Abe Mann, Hap Blowenfeld, Richard Levine, Michael Folio, Los Angeles, Skyline Hall, Miguel Cortega, Father Steve, Jake Owens, Janet Stephens, Archibald Grant, West Coast, Grand Jury, Congressman Mann, Stefano Gorgio, Columbus Textile, Beacon Street, Pete Cox, Little Italy, New York, Secret Service Browse Sample Pages:
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