The Killer

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"Melos prize-winning novel (Matador) is a thriller about a man who accidentally becomes a hired killer and a local hero. Once again Landers achieves an excellent result: colloquial entirely readable and authentic with just the right tone for its narrator whose language one reviewer has called racy hoodlum-speak."--Handbook of Latin American Studies v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/When Maiquel a young Brazilian used car salesman gets his first taste of the kill in a barroom brawl he soon becomes a killer-for-hire