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Lethal People

von John Locke

Reihen: Donovan Creed (1)

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In the first of an exciting new series, Donovan Creed, former CIA assassin and a smartaleck tough guy with a heart of bronze, faces his biggest challenge ever. While pursuing a budding romance with the beautiful Kathleen Gray, Creed stumbles upon a plucky, but horribly burned, little girl named Addie Dawes. Creed's suspicion about the fire that killed Addie's family puts him on a collision course with crime boss Joe DeMeo in what soon becomes an issue of kill or be killed. DeMeo, a relentless killer who will stop at nothing to protect his empire, targets Creed and his loved ones for death. But Creed has plans of his own. Employing a bizarre cast of characters, including a giant, a rival crime lord, an angry midget bent on world conquest, and a team of circus clowns, Creed goes on the attack, with hilarious results. Lethal People is a bizarre, breezy and exciting thriller with excellent pacing, snappy dialogue and quirky characters who will keep you chuckling late into the night. "Donovan Creed, a former CIA assassin, is a very tough man with a weakness for very easy women. Meet him in Lethal People-a relentlessly entertaining crime novel that's often LOL funny! The action is fast and furious, the dialogue smart, savvy and sexy, and the story is filled with quirky characters and clever surprises. What more could you want when you turn the last page except the next Donovan Creed crime novel? Patience, please. You'll be reading Creed's next adventure in the very near future. Lucky you!"-Gerald Gross, freelance editor… (mehr)
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Donovan Creed, agente de la CIA y matón a sueldo en sus ratos libres, es un tipo duro. Mientras vive un romance con Kathleen Gray, Creed conoce a la pequeña Addie Dawes, una niña que ha sido horriblemente quemada. La sospecha de Creed sobre el incencio que quemó a la niña le lleva a cruzar su camino con el mafioso Joe DeMeo, en lo que pronto se convierte en una cuestión de matar o ser asesinado. Con el elenco extraño de personajes, Creed emprende el ataque con hilarantes resultados.
  Natt90 | Jan 27, 2023 |
I must say that I am actually impressed with this book. This isn't the kind of thing that I would normally read and not the kind of book that would draw my attention. But it did, and I'm glad I read it. It was a friend of mine who recommended me the book and when he did, he didn't give me many details about it other than "in the worst case scenario, the book is very cheap. The electronic version of it costs only .99 cents". Well, for a cheap book, it was actually more than I could have expected. The plot is not anything mindblowing, the characters are not completely out of reality. The story is fast-paced. You know, those kinds of stories that chain one occurrence to another one and, when you realize it, everything is connected. The main character, Donovan Creed, is a contract killer, former FBI agent and awfully sarcastic, which gives the book an interesting sense of humor. In spite of initially looking like "the perfect man" in the best of any of Dan Brown's main characters style, he is very easy to like. The story is very enjoyable (even though it's not the kind of thing I would want to read twice) and simple. If you're looking for a nice action book, just go for this one! ( )
  aryadeschain | Aug 26, 2014 |
I haven’t made up my mind yet about how to classify the Donovan Creed series. They are part spoof, part comedy, part James Bond, and part warning of Homeland Security egregious power plays. Donovan lives in a cell where he experiments with new torture weapons (“When I’m in Virginia, I sleep in a prison cell. When I’m anywhere else for more than a day or two, I generally break into the homes of strangers and sleep in their attics,” seeing how much he can take and survive, has a giant friend, Quinn, who looks like the Hulk after passing through a trash compactor, ostensibly works for Homeland Security killing terrorists (and which is often called upon to clean up after Donovan,) but also subcontracts out to a group of little people (Hugo and Victor) engaged in social experiments that involve killing, and Sal, a crime syndicate boss.

“Victor was born with serious respiratory problems. About twenty years ago, he was in the hospital for a minor surgery when a nurse gave him an accidental overdose that put him into cardiac arrest. Someone wheeled him into an elevator on the way to emergency surgery and somehow managed to leave him there. Up and down he went from floor to floor in the elevator for more than thirty minutes before someone realized what had happened. They rushed him to the OR, but the surgeon botched the procedure and Victor suffered a stroke. Subsequent attempts to save his life rendered him a quadriplegic. “Then the hospital made a feeble attempt to cover up the incident. Victor’s attorneys sued both the hospital and the drug company and managed to win the largest settlement ever paid to an individual in the state of Florida.

On the ridiculous names of coffee at Starbucks. “Grande,” I said. “Solo. Venti. Doppio. What the hell is doppio, anyway—one of the seven dwarfs?” “No,” she squealed. “But Grumpy is!” Kathleen’s laughter had passed the point of no return. Her cheeks were puffy, and her eyes had become slits. I frowned again and recited the conversation for her. “All I said was, ‘I’ll have a coffee.’ ‘What size?’ she says. ‘A regular,’ I said. ‘We have grande, venti, solo, doppio, short, and tall,’ she says. ”

It’s all done with such clever tongue-in-cheek, that each of the two books in the series I have read has been quite enjoyable and fun. ( )
  ecw0647 | Sep 30, 2013 |
This is the first Donovan Creed book and is such a fun surprise!` From the get-go, you just never know what to expect with this guy. A former-CIA, he is an assasin one minute and then opens his heart up to a little girl, a burn victim, the next. This is the first glimps...Read MoreThis is the first Donovan Creed book and is such a fun surprise!` From the get-go, you just never know what to expect with this guy. A former-CIA, he is an assasin one minute and then opens his heart up to a little girl, a burn victim, the next. This is the first glimpse into Creed's world of assasins, gansters, women, little circus people and evil midgets bent on taking over the world.Could this happen?-of course not, but somehow Locke makes all of this come together and make perfect sense and along the way it is just a laugh-out-loud riot! Another quick read that leaves you craving more Creed by the time you get to the last page! ( )
  Mary.Endersbe | Dec 16, 2012 |
Great Escapist reading! ( )
  GTTexas | Jun 26, 2011 |
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In the first of an exciting new series, Donovan Creed, former CIA assassin and a smartaleck tough guy with a heart of bronze, faces his biggest challenge ever. While pursuing a budding romance with the beautiful Kathleen Gray, Creed stumbles upon a plucky, but horribly burned, little girl named Addie Dawes. Creed's suspicion about the fire that killed Addie's family puts him on a collision course with crime boss Joe DeMeo in what soon becomes an issue of kill or be killed. DeMeo, a relentless killer who will stop at nothing to protect his empire, targets Creed and his loved ones for death. But Creed has plans of his own. Employing a bizarre cast of characters, including a giant, a rival crime lord, an angry midget bent on world conquest, and a team of circus clowns, Creed goes on the attack, with hilarious results. Lethal People is a bizarre, breezy and exciting thriller with excellent pacing, snappy dialogue and quirky characters who will keep you chuckling late into the night. "Donovan Creed, a former CIA assassin, is a very tough man with a weakness for very easy women. Meet him in Lethal People-a relentlessly entertaining crime novel that's often LOL funny! The action is fast and furious, the dialogue smart, savvy and sexy, and the story is filled with quirky characters and clever surprises. What more could you want when you turn the last page except the next Donovan Creed crime novel? Patience, please. You'll be reading Creed's next adventure in the very near future. Lucky you!"-Gerald Gross, freelance editor

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