He carries around a handful of phones, which certainly adds a layer of mystery to a man who already inhales intrigue and exhales charm. He has a steady supply of sex with compelling, imaginative women. He plays an ancient Fendercaster in a Blues band. On the surface JJ Stoner is more fascinating than most. Our veneer life is usually boring, but sometimes the veneer hides some really interesting characteristics that add some swirls or knots, some beauty or some ugliness to the structure of who we are. If someone were to follow most of us around for a week, they would soon be yawning over the predictable pattern of our lives. On dangerous days, it is always best to do it hardest the first time.” If you’ve done it, and if you are still in doubt.do it again, but this time do it harder. R J Ellory, award-winning author of A Quiet Belief In Angels and 12 other crime-thriller best-sellers. With terse and brilliant prose, Westworth delivers a plot that drags you along relentlessly.
'Guns, girls, guitars and scenes of gruesome violence, all shot through with a wit sharp enough to draw blood. The time has come for Stoner to kill again. Stoner must find focus, find the killer, maybe even find himself. Friend or foe? And who are the seductive killing sisters? An old army comrade, equally lethal and with less to lose, steps out of the shadows. When the investigation spirals in queasy circles, JJ finds release in the music of the blues and in weird sex with treacherous women. Less the blunt instrument, more the swift stiletto.Ī series of brutal, blood-soaked murders looks to be right up Stoner's street. Highly-trained, finely-honed and used hard, Stoner now seeks not to kill as he investigates underworld activities for official intelligence agencies, an entirely deniable operative in sleazy situations. He doesn't mention the other kills, those of his own initiative. As a mercenary they were privately contracted. In the military his kills were government-sanctioned. JJ Stoner once killed people for a living.
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