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“Bleeding hearts,” he said, “are for the operating table, not for business.”
“I’ll drink to that,” I said, though of course in my line of work bleeding hearts are the business.
Michael Weston is a hired assassin who’s paid to get the job done, no questions asked. Known only as the Demolition Man, Michael shoots from a distance and aims for the heart—and he always detonates a small explosion near the scene to divert attention. His latest job is pretty straightforward. He knows everything about his victim—journalist Eleanor Ricks—right down to what she’ll be wearing. The job goes almost exactly according to plan—except someone alerts the police right before the assassination. The cops show up too soon, leaving Michael scrambling for a way to escape. His near miss leads him to wonder who tried to set him up—and why. And he sets out, determined to find some answers.
Meanwhile, a New York PI named Leo Hoffer packs up and heads to London, notified that the D-Man is in town. Driven by his obsession with the hunt and the fame that comes with it—and funded by a man whose daughter was an innocent victim of the Demolition Man—Hoffer is willing to do whatever it takes to hunt the D-Man down.
Hoffer follows close behind as Michael travels from London to Scotland to Texas and finally to Washington, hunting down a religious cult that could be the source of the answers he’s looking for.
Fast-paced and suspenseful, Bleeding Hearts will have you following along with Michael, trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. Michael is a fabulous antihero. Almost right from the start, you’ll like him—no matter what he does for a living. You’ll want him to get away, to get his questions answered, to outwit the fat, greasy PI, and to finally get the girl and start a new life. But the deeper you get into the story, the more complex things get and less the pieces come together. The story takes you a long way from the streets of London—and, in the end, the answers aren’t all that satisfying, and the conclusion doesn’t quite live up to the build-up. Fortunately, though, the rest of the story makes up for the less-than-stellar end. So if you choose to give Bleeding Hearts a shot, you won’t be too disappointed.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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