A Keller Sampler

By Lawrence Block

Keller, the Urban Lonely Guy of assassins, is arguably MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's most compelling character—and a guilty pleasure for readers throughout the world. Says the Washington Post, "Fast, somber, funny. Does Block succeed in making a deadly sociopath great fun to hang around with for a couple of hours? I'm afraid so."

There have been five Keller novels published—Hit Man, Hit List, Hit Parade, Hit and Run, and Hit Me—and A KELLER SAMPLER contains selections from all of them. Because the books may be categorized as episodic novels, these selections can stand alone (and indeed many of them first saw print as short stories, most of them appearing in Playboy). Taken together, they provide the reader with an excellent introduction into the inner and outer worlds of a character unlike any other.In addition, Block has written an original introduction for A KELLER SAMPLER, providing an overview of the man and tracing the history of his progress.

If you already own the five books, you probably don't need A KELLER SAMPLER. If not, now's your chance to meet the man Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review called "Block's most fatally appealing protagonist."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lawrence Block
• Release date: Apr 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507059364

Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as “James M. Cain on Viagra,” is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones.  Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well.  He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives.  In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights.  He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.