The Big Killing
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The Big Killing

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Big Killing

About this book

Bruce Medway is the target of a deadly conspiracy in "this darkly tangled thriller" by the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon ( Kirkus Reviews).
 
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don't want to do. And in the seedier corners of West Africa, there are plenty of tasks that need doing. For example, porn producer Fat Paul needs someone to deliver a video to the Ivory Coast, but the recipients will only trust a white man to make a drop. A Syrian millionaire wants Bruce to travel to Korhogo to fire someone on his payroll. And Martin Fall, head of security at a firm back home in England, needs a man to keep an eye on diamond hunter Ronald Collins.
 
Seems like three easy gigs for Bruce until two of his clients end up dead and the third goes missing. All three cases are dangerously tied to a group of Liberian rebels determined to wreak havoc wherever they go. Now, Bruce needs to outwit a band of killers all gunning for him before he becomes part of their swiftly rising body count.
 
"The action is furious and the one-liners . . . would have made even Raymond Chandler jealous." — The Sunday Times
 
"Wilson writes concisely but poetically about a callously brutal side of African life that . . . ring[s] with a dark, sad credibility." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780156011198
eBook ISBN
9780547537474
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Acknowledgment
  7. Epigraph
  8. Map of West Africa
  9. Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2
  11. Chapter 3
  12. Chapter 4
  13. Chapter 5
  14. Chapter 6
  15. Chapter 7
  16. Chapter 8
  17. Chapter 9
  18. Chapter 10
  19. Chapter 11
  20. Chapter 12
  21. Chapter 13
  22. Chapter 14
  23. Chapter 15
  24. Chapter 16
  25. Chapter 17
  26. Chapter 18
  27. Chapter 19
  28. Chapter 20
  29. Chapter 21
  30. Chapter 22
  31. Chapter 23
  32. Chapter 24
  33. Chapter 25
  34. Chapter 26
  35. Chapter 27
  36. Chapter 28
  37. Chapter 29
  38. Chapter 30
  39. Chapter 31
  40. Chapter 32
  41. Chapter 33
  42. Read More from Robert Wilson
  43. About the Author
  44. Connect with HMH
  45. Footnotes

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