A Matter of Death and Life

About this book

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give him your photograph specify when and in which cafe to find you then sit back and prepare to die. Murdered you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. More to him than met the eye will be the judgment. A mysterious killing lives long in the popular memory. As with Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment so with our hero: meticulous planning nothing left to chance. Nothing beyond that chance is not predictable. Raskolnikov intending to kill one kills two and our hero suddenly wants to live. The setting for this intriguing tale is a snowy Kiev as immediate as Simenons Paris and Conan Doyles London.