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A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman
Hardcover
Series: The Murders Most Foul
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Publisher: Oxford Book Writers
Published: Oct 9 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman is a dark, introspective exploration of morality, memory, and the price of violence. Far from a conventional crime thriller, Richard Marcs delivers a haunting psychological narrative told through the fractured voice of Notch, a professional killer whose latest contract unravels into a meditation on guilt, survival, and the futility of justification.
The story begins when a wealthy woman coldly offers Notch four million dollars to kill her husband. What follows is not just the anatomy of a contract killing, but a descent into the hitman's own memories - from a brutal childhood in foster care to the violent choices that shaped his path. As past and present blur, the novel examines what it means to live without redemption, where survival depends on detachment and the human soul is a casualty of the job.
Written with gallows humor, literary allusions, and razor-sharp prose, A Murder Most Foul is part confession, part fugue, and part philosophical riddle. Readers who value complex antiheroes, nonlinear storytelling, and morally charged fiction will find themselves immersed in a tale that is both unsettling and unforgettable.
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