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Loading... Transgressions, Volume 1 (U.S. Edition) (2005)by Ed McBain (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Oddly enough, this was the first writing I read by Jeffery Deaver. Why? No idea, but I quite liked the short story here. I have always enjoyed Block's works, and Keller most of all, so enjoying that story was not a surprise. I will actually go look for some more Deaver books, to see if this was just a fluke or if I have been missing out on an author I enjoy for all these years. ( ) This volume of Transgressions, edited by Ed McBain, consists of two novellas by New York Times bestselling authors Lawrence Block and Jeffrey Deaver. Deaver’s contribution, Forever, concerns a statistician turned cop who becomes suspicious of double suicide. The cop, Tal Simms, blunders his way through an investigation until he is finally able to convince Homicide that it may be a case for them after all. The story builds nicely, but the ending seems a bit sudden. An enjoyable tale, nonetheless. Block’s novella, Keller’s Adjustment, concerns a successful hitman who becomes philosophical about his life and lifestyle after 9/11 and the ensuing security measures. Block is able to present his hitman, Keller, as almost the opposite of a sociopath. Any writer who has the singular ability to get his readers sympathising with a hitman is worth reading. Block’s is arguably the better of the two novellas. no reviews | add a review
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New York Times bestsellers Lawrence Block and Jeffrey Deaver each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories,Transgressions Vol. 1, edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain. "Keller's Adjustment," by Lawrence Block: Block returns to everyone's favorite hitman, Keller, from his bestsellers The Hit Man and The Hit List. In the Aftermath of 9/11, Keller is questioning his life and the choices he's made, dealing out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other. "Forever" by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop. He's a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff's Department. When wealthy county resident's begin killing themselves one after another, Simms begins to believe that there is something more at play. And what he discovers will change his life . . . forever. No library descriptions found. |
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