The assassin you have when you're not having an assassin!

Death Comes Hot  (A Bloody Mary Mystery #5) by Michael Jecks      

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That's Jack Blackjack who's as an assassin in the pay of John Blount, who calls Thomas Parry master. Through an inordinate amount of bungling normally Blackjack ends up with someone else killing the mark. Blackjack takes the credit, which he's mostly happy to do as its lifted him out of poverty. He's become a man of substance, if a servant makes one that. The balancing act, the delusions that Jack juggles are all part of the black comic figure. Still when he finally does kill someone, even that has an awful comedic side. 

This time jack finds himself in the thick of politics with a whiff of heresy. Not a comfortable place to be.

I must admit too becomming quite dizzy by Jack's tortured thinking as he tries to puzzle out the where's and whyfores, looking for illumination about who the enemy is. At times I felt like I'd sipped more than my fair share of questionable wine just like Jack. A headache seems a certainity. Once again the exploits of Jeck's self serving hero proves an amusing medieval mystery gallop.

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