Matz

"In the end, I am a killer. I put a definitive end to things and to lives. I'm not afraid of this. When I can shoot, I shoot. And when I shoot, I shoot to kill."

LOTS of philosophizing, sermonizing, and moralizing in these pages. Lots. Just read the last page - if it doesn't appeal to you, just know that there is a LOT more where that came from in this volume! Or read the beginning of chapter 7 for a big ol’ helping. But what the main character says a few pages further along - “Listen, I’m not here for a history lesson. We agree: the world sucks, it’s rotten to the core.” - applied to me as I read this. I quickly tired of reading the author's unending list of things that currently and historically occurred on this planet that prove mankind is scum. And man, does Matz have a laundry list of complaints...

I do like all the caimans! Extremely well drawn as are so many of the backgrounds and full-page pictures! And the original series covers in the back! Excellent artwork/awful sermonizing. And one deadly killer. I may not watch the movie after all.… (more)

This book is combination of "Red Harvest" and "Road to Perdition" .... as a matter of fact it is your standard gangster novel about lone wolf fighting in the end for the right cause.

Our protagonist is hired gun that gets sprung out from the jail by the Chicago mafia because he is the man with skills to find people that have double crossed the Chicago mobsters.

Of course what starts as a rather simple task evolves into situation where blackmail, back stabbing and betrayal flourishes. Soon our hero will find himself fighting the uphill battle and in the end losing more than he expected.

You might say all of the above is seen in many movies and read in many crime novels and I have to agree. This one is not aiming towards the originality but to tell the story of a man seeking redemption while doing some pretty nasty deeds.

Art is very good and our hero looks very much like Alain Delon in his appearance.

Recommended to fans of the crime stories.… (more)

“I help rich people kill one another. Poor people, they can’t afford me. They handle it themselves.”

“That’s my job: kill time…and occasionally kill people.”

Good, fast paced read! The killer is quite the philosophizer, considering his profession. Sort of justifying what he does, based on the state of our current world, and also based on the history that most of our societies are based on. And he isn't that far out there in his thinking.

However, he is sort of cracking up a bit, and perhaps despite his rationalizing, this may not actually be the job for him. But, the job, well, it doesn't quite go away that easily...

Definitely enjoyed this volume, and definitely will check out the next one!… (more)