Walter Hill (1) (1942–)

This book is combination of "Red Harvest" and "Road to Perdition" .... as a matter of fact it is your standard gangster novel about lone wolf fighting in the end for the right cause.

Our protagonist is hired gun that gets sprung out from the jail by the Chicago mafia because he is the man with skills to find people that have double crossed the Chicago mobsters.

Of course what starts as a rather simple task evolves into situation where blackmail, back stabbing and betrayal flourishes. Soon our hero will find himself fighting the uphill battle and in the end losing more than he expected.

You might say all of the above is seen in many movies and read in many crime novels and I have to agree. This one is not aiming towards the originality but to tell the story of a man seeking redemption while doing some pretty nasty deeds.

Art is very good and our hero looks very much like Alain Delon in his appearance.

Recommended to fans of the crime stories.… (mehr)

This was very odd and not entirely successful. It’s a graphic novel of a movie I’d never heard of, directed by Walter Hill and starring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver. The concept is simple and reasonably offensive. A hitman wakes up after being kidnapped by an enemy to find that they’ve operated on him and given him a sex change. Cue a pretty standard revenge tale with lots of nudity and violence that never really grapples with the idea at its heart. It ends up feeling like the first book in an alternative universe trans-remake of the Executioner series. Odd, poorly conceived and basically pointless.… (mehr)