Shoot The Messenger A Novel edition by Yancey Williams Literature Fiction eBooks
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Yancey Williams' picaresque novel begins in an open, peaceable municipal park adjacent to the bustling city center. Here, in the front seat of his worn out gray can, hit man Elvis, a midget psychopath, and ex-Russian mobster Vladimir have teamed up for the first time as the infamous "Murderers' Row". This detailed look at their first bungled caper begs the obvious in a move-over-Abbot-and-Costello mayhem. This dynamic duo has nothing on Laurel and Hardy except for a little blood on their hands.
Harriet O'Connor has been in a loveless, psychologically abusive marriage for years. Her husband Harry is a one-man, modern day philanderer. Enter Earnest Darwin, candidate to the US House of Representatives, who she perceives as her knight in shining armor. The two begin their affair and Harry's affair in short order.
Reenter Elvis and Vlad. It seems the two misappropriated lovers have unwittingly hired the same Murderers' Row for their own cockamamie intentions.
Shoot The Messenger A Novel edition by Yancey Williams Literature Fiction eBooks
"Shoot the Messenger," Yancey Williams' new novel, begins with an American midget named Elvis Octavius Palmer and a color blind Russian mobster sitting in a rundown gray van waiting to off some poor soul. "Zingularly," says the Russian, "ve blend togeth like gypsies off d Russia great steppes. Ve are brothers of d bloodz." Welcome to the deception and decadence of Dante's inferno, only instead of Virgil as a guide, Williams circles above us like a good-natured shark, gleefully looking for the best angle of attack. D bloodz is about to flow.Simply put--and that is a challenge as Williams is always absurdly, riotously complicated--the two hit men are hired by a wealthy fund-manager-recently-turned-politician to kill his mistress and her associate. The mistress, in turn, hires this resourceful duo to terrify the lover she is attempting to blackmail. Both the midget and the mobster are memorable characters, but the mistress steals the show.
Tossing a celery stalk over her shoulder for good luck (she does this "extemporaneously" while mixing a Bloody Mary) and telling herself that "two murders in the same summer is simply too much," she discovers her lover's laptop ("It was a roadside moment on the way to Damascus") and after reading through it item by item, "fires six times repeatedly into the face of the computer even as it skipped about the room." Messengers--man, woman or electronic--don't stand a chance in this book.
The action takes place in a very few short summer days somewhere in the American South. Short, but teeming with action. One has to get up early and stay late to carry off this much lust, avarice, fraud, treachery, and even heresy. Murder there is abundantly, but somehow it doesn't seem nearly as heinous as the self-indulgence and maliciousness that drive the other evils (a moral position undoubtedly informed by the original Inferno but such inferences are happily kept subliminal here). When, a hundred or so pages into the book, our heroine receives a desperate last "message" from her doomed accomplice, she "shut down the phone in a clasp. She looked away. She looked askance. Then, from out of nowhere, she uttered without pathos or malice or conjecture or proclivity or jaundice or mercy one single, very solitary word which was the only thing that came to mind. Sitting there as if alone, she said in a vague, distant voice...once and only..."Oops."
"Shoot the Messenger" is maybe a bit too cleverly constructed, but you'll never notice. You'll be laughing too hard.
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Shoot The Messenger A Novel edition by Yancey Williams Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Wish there was a zero star . I got both of these books by this " low country author". His books are boring and predictable. Fancy Yancy has no hair... or talent.
"Shoot the Messenger," Yancey Williams' new novel, begins with an American midget named Elvis Octavius Palmer and a color blind Russian mobster sitting in a rundown gray van waiting to off some poor soul. "Zingularly," says the Russian, "ve blend togeth like gypsies off d Russia great steppes. Ve are brothers of d bloodz." Welcome to the deception and decadence of Dante's inferno, only instead of Virgil as a guide, Williams circles above us like a good-natured shark, gleefully looking for the best angle of attack. D bloodz is about to flow.
Simply put--and that is a challenge as Williams is always absurdly, riotously complicated--the two hit men are hired by a wealthy fund-manager-recently-turned-politician to kill his mistress and her associate. The mistress, in turn, hires this resourceful duo to terrify the lover she is attempting to blackmail. Both the midget and the mobster are memorable characters, but the mistress steals the show.
Tossing a celery stalk over her shoulder for good luck (she does this "extemporaneously" while mixing a Bloody Mary) and telling herself that "two murders in the same summer is simply too much," she discovers her lover's laptop ("It was a roadside moment on the way to Damascus") and after reading through it item by item, "fires six times repeatedly into the face of the computer even as it skipped about the room." Messengers--man, woman or electronic--don't stand a chance in this book.
The action takes place in a very few short summer days somewhere in the American South. Short, but teeming with action. One has to get up early and stay late to carry off this much lust, avarice, fraud, treachery, and even heresy. Murder there is abundantly, but somehow it doesn't seem nearly as heinous as the self-indulgence and maliciousness that drive the other evils (a moral position undoubtedly informed by the original Inferno but such inferences are happily kept subliminal here). When, a hundred or so pages into the book, our heroine receives a desperate last "message" from her doomed accomplice, she "shut down the phone in a clasp. She looked away. She looked askance. Then, from out of nowhere, she uttered without pathos or malice or conjecture or proclivity or jaundice or mercy one single, very solitary word which was the only thing that came to mind. Sitting there as if alone, she said in a vague, distant voice...once and only..."Oops."
"Shoot the Messenger" is maybe a bit too cleverly constructed, but you'll never notice. You'll be laughing too hard.
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