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by: Duane Swierczynski
List Price: $13.95Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312374594
ISBN: 0312374593
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Sales Rank: 75889
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product Description:
The night before a big meeting, Jack Eisley is sitting in an airport bar in Philadelphia, chatting up a pretty young blonde. Sure, Jack has a wife and daughter at home, but this is just a little harmless flirting. Harmless, that is, until the blonde leans forward and says, “I poisoned your drink.”
She tells Jack that unless she can keep someone within ten feet of her at all times, she’ll die. And if he wants the antidote, he’ll have to take her back to his hotel room and promise to stay by her side.
Jack thinks: psycho. But as the violent night wears on, and he encounters a relentless government assassin, a threatening voice on a cell phone, a deadly waitress, dirty cops, and shady cab drivers . . .
He begins to believe her.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Kiss of Death
Four stars because it was a fun, light read. The premise (read Amazon's description) is interesting and the science fiction elements are believable in the setting of this book. Beware, though, if you have a weak stomach!
It seemed to end with a sequel on the horizon, but none yet. I liked it well enough to try another by Swierczynski one of these days.
Rating:  - Cool Book
Man oh man, what a cool book. The action starts at the first sentence and keeps pulsing until the very last. Ultraviolence at its very finest. Great characters and a great story taking place in my favorite city, Philly. I sure hope this guy keeps on writing novels. Lots of fun for anyone who is a fan of Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, or Kill Bill.
Rating: - Pulp Fiction is Alive and Well with Swierczynski
From all indications, we seem to be in the midst of a noir/pulp renaissance. Hard Case Crime, established in 2004, has been publishing and re-introducing out-of-print pulp novels to the 21st century. In the case of yours truly, it is an introduction, not a re-introduction. New technologies (podcasting, online magazines) have, ironically, replicated the delivery methods of old-school pulp magazines back in the golden age of pulp fiction. The climate of this first decade of the 21t century has a shadow ... Read More
Rating: - Explosive first half, loses steam toward the end.
The Blonde hits the ground running at a break-neck speed, as any novel that begins with the words "I poisoned your drink" should. The problem is, the tension and action of the first half of the book doesn't maintain the entire way through.
It seems that at about the halfway point, after a rather major event occurs to the titular blonde of the book, Swierczynski realized that he had more or less ended his story, but he didn't want to have a novella on his hands.
So, to counter ... Read More
Rating: - The Life of an Assassin Isn't As Easy As You Think
I'm sure that you think hired assassins have an easy life: Good hours, high pay, a life of travel. Take Kowalski. He's been hired to do a job, and is hard on his victim's trail when one by one people start getting in his way. Well he simply has to take them out in order to continue his pursuit. It makes his job a lot more difficult.
While he's dashing around just trying to complete his assignment we switch to two other characters in the book who have ingested something that makes it ... Read More
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