Guns Will Keep Us Together

I've just gotten my hands on the most unexpectedly awesome book ever - Guns Will Keep Us Together. I picked it up at the supermarket, of all places. An almost airheadedly blithe assassin acquires an unexpected illegitimate son at the same time that the family business (in killing people) has acquired some bargain-basement competitors. So! There's nothing to be done but pick off the competition while considering offing the PTA. The "hero" of this thing is one of the most hilariously note perfect first person narrators I've seen in years. He chattily waltzes through cell phone squabbling with his mother mid-execution, making a family vacation out of a hit on a guy in a Mickey suit at Disney World, and an attempted assassination of a bear-keeper at a zoo that goes horribly, brilliantly wrong. You know those start a chapter with a quote things that a lot of books have? This author went for Addams Family, Blackadder and The Heathers quotes (among others), all even funnier in context. It's just that kind of book. Fluffily fun black comedy! Now, to be frank, I think this book has a truth in advertising problem. Theoretically, it's a "mystery romance", but this is less of a romance than your average science fiction novel about very large bombs and prehensile aliens written by a gruff sixty five year old grandfather. I say this as someone who likes romance. Read it if you want rollicking action comedy - which I certainly did!

When I read the first in this series, 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy, I thought there was no way she could follow up with a second book as good. Leslie's voice is hilarious, sarcastic...and laugh out loud funny. I looked forward to reading Dak's book (Guns Will Keep Us Together) because I thought he would be this smooth killer that he appeared in the first novel--but he's not. And I was wrong: this book was even funnier than the first book. In any case, the bear scene at the zoo is worth the 5 stars alone, though I think Disney World might be a close second. Run and buy this book. Great fun, escapist read.

Assassin Dakota Bombay enjoys his playboy lifestyle that he can afford due to his high paying occupation. He has no plans to change it. However, he failed to tell others because his womanizing and hit man existence abruptly ends when a six years old boy is unceremoniously dumped on him. Dak never knew he sired a child. The Family assigns Dak to eliminate a rival firm at a time he tries to be a good father and is romancing someone who he supplies with clients, a funeral director. However, Dak knows he needs to finish the downsizing of the competition before the family gives his lover a client to bury, him. The return of the Bombay family, who's DNA contains killer genes, makes for a lighthearted fun tongue in cheek tale. Bringing in a funeral director into the family completes the process value chain as the final output of the Bombay products would go to her or her peers (family discount for bringing in business). Delightful Dak understands the vision of his family of assassins is kill is or be killed so as he courts his burial lover, he knows he must say to her 'SCUSE ME WHILE I KILL THIS GUY. As wacky as the first, Leslie Langtry provides an amusing Pulp Fiction Harriet Klausner