As a boy, Mike Foley went on a job with his brother, never
dreaming that it would change his future. Seeing the
results of their deadly work, Mike turns away and makes a
new life for himself in Oklahoma. But even decades later,
after building a winery that just may finally become
successful, Mike knows that he's really just hiding from
his past.
That past comes to find him in the form of the nephew he's
never met, Andrew. In trying to make some extra money,
Andrew saw something he shouldn't have and now someone
wants him dead. He'd never met his Uncle Mike, but before
his father died, he gave Andrew Mike's telephone number and
said call only if it's a matter of life or death. It is --
and Mike steps in to help.
Keeping Andrew alive will be a challenge, because the woman
after him is deadly. A professional killer, Nikki Enders
drops corpses like some drop cigarette butts. And Mike has
been out of the game for a long time. Can he keep Andrew
alive? Somehow, he always knew he'd never really left the
life, and Mike comes out with guns blazing to protect the
only family he has left.
SHOTGUN OPERA is a dark, suspense-driven story. Although it
follows the typical action genre (lots of guns and a
relatively high body count), there's a depth here that sets
the work apart. Mike's character is melancholic and Mr.
Gischler evokes well the feeling that Mike has lived with --
your past is never over, and you can never escape what
you've done. A good read.
Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with
his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of
bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike's making wine in
Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you've
been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes
calling.
Mike's nephew Andrew needs to disappear, and he needs to do
it yesterday. Hanging with the wrong kind of friends, he's
seen something he shouldn't have, and now he's running for
his life with an assassin on his trail. The consummate
professional hit woman, Nikki Enders is the most lethal of
a deadly sisterhood. And Andrew Foley is next on her
extermination list. Unless Uncle Mike can stop her. As kill
teams descend on Foley's farm, one pissed-off ex, tough guy
is about to take a final, all-or-nothing stand with
shotguns blazing...
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy