Hitman Anders And The Meaning Of It All
Ecco
ISBN13:
9780062458179
$17.08
From the author of the international bestseller The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a brilliant satirical novel set in modern Swedena story of idealism and fanaticism, gangsters and entrepreneurs, sensationalism and spirituality, that explores the values that matter in contemporary life. In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangersa former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-Anders, a murderer newly released from prisonaccidently collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. The Priest and The Receptionist will handle strategy and public relations, and coordinate Killer-Anders missions. Using the medias obsessive need for sensational, headline-making stories to advertise their talents superb skill, they quickly build a clientele of rich Swedish gangsters. Suddenly, theyre making an altogether different kind of killing of their own. But when Killer-Anders begins asking deeper questions about purpose and meaning, his curiosity leads him to an unexpected discovery: he finds Jesus. Desperate to save the money machine theyve built, The Priest and The Receptionist devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders newfound and decidedly fervent faith. Mischievous yet big-hearted, filled with Jonas Jonassons trenchant humor and delightful twists, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a delightful comic adventure that reminds us its never to late to start overand to discover what truly matters.
- | Author: Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
- | Publisher: Ecco
- | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 312 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0062458175
- | ISBN-13: 9780062458179
- Author:
- Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
- Publisher:
- Ecco
- Publication Date:
- Apr 26, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 312 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 0062458175
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062458179