He committed one of the most inexplicable crimes of the 20th century ( and if you know your history, the 20th was a century filled with inexplicable crimes), but you don't even know his name; the irony is, he doesn't know his name either. A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman examines the life of an orphan who becomes one of the world's deadliest contract killers. First tasting blood as a 15-year-old, he's recruited to join an elite covert US Marines assassination squad during the Vietnam War. After the war, he returns to the states to continue working in "Compensated Homicide" for a variety of, what he calls, "murderers once removed". We learn the details of the murder that will send the world into mourning, but might just be his way out of the deadly existence he's living.
A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman takes you to locations all over the world and to the beds of the world's most beautiful women. Every page is filled with horrors, grit and wit as a life without morals or compassion unfolds before it reaches its shocking finale. A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman is a gripping psychological thriller about the price of violence, the weight of memory, and the last chance at freedom.
Marcs has crafted an engrossing novel that is a literary equivalent to a jigsaw puzzle, but not just any jigsaw puzzle-no! Imagine a puzzle whose image isn't known until the final piece is fitted. Revelation! As he always does, Marcs has us at the edge of our seats until the bitter end. A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman is a journey that won't disappoint.
Dana Scheier The Echo
