Killshot

Elmore Leonard

This crime thriller follows Blackbird, a first nations man residing in Toronto, through a few weeks of his life as an assassin for the Canadian mob. We start with a "standard hit" and then Bird gets connected by chance with a punk named Richie Nix, after which Bird's standard way of looking at, and interacting with, the world change. Regular folk Wayne and Carmen Colson out of Detroit get drawn into this story as well. The explicit plot tension is between the Colsons and the Nix/Bird duo. The more interesting tension is between the Colsons, and also between Nix & Bird. That said, I was only marginally engaged throughout. The story was good, and I enjoyed reading it. But it did not pull me in and demand that I read it. One of those books that lays around on your table for a month, half read.
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