Book description
A middle-aged hitwoman goes on the run from the Israeli mob; a boy on a South Pacific island searches for a missing cat and uncovers dark secrets; an ageing bagman has to recover a package across one violent night, no matter the cost; an informer must uncover the heist of…
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1 author picked No One Hears the Last Shot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book of crime short stories by Lavie, who usually writes science fiction and fantasy. But he is also a master of noir writing - channelling the best of Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosely in a world of Israeli gangsters and hitmen and hitwomen. Some of the characters in this book recur in Lavie's brilliant and epic novel MAROR, which I also strongly recommend. But there's something pleasing about the tightness, the economy of scale, of this short story collection that I adore.
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