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Calling Mr. King (2011)

by Ronald De Feo(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1590514750 (ISBN13: 9781590514757)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Other Press

review 1: Absolutly boring, probably the worst book I have ever come into contact with. I understand that an assassin can crack up after having to endure the psychological trauma of killing people. However, I do not think an author could have developed a more boring way for an assassin to catalyze his own demise. I have never once given up on a book once I start reading it, this almost became the exception. Read your local phone book for more entertainment, if I could give this book a lower rating I would.
review 2: When I opened Ronald De Feo’s Calling Mr. King I was convinced I wasn’t going to read more than a few pages. I had received a free copy at the BEA from the publisher, Other Press, and since I normally don’t read novels about hit men, I thought I wo... moreuld just take a quick look at the hit man’s travels between Paris, London, New York and Barcelona, and get some vicarious tourist enjoyment this way. And then…I couldn’t stop reading. This novel turned out to be a faux thriller written in a minimalist, witty style, in the voice of a man who, after having worked as a hit man for all his adult life, starts to wonder one day about the life and the world inhabited by his “marks.” He begins to do research on Georgian style houses because one of his targets lived in such a house, and eventually, becomes fascinated with art and architecture. The hit man goes through some Sartrian moments of existential nausea, and even begins to change by the end, but the change is credible and not at all moralizing—that is, the author is smart enough not to tell us a story of “redemption” (though one may frame it this way). A very entertaining and witty novel. less

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