Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A Nice Place to Visit by Jeffery Deaver

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The mistake a lot of shooters make during a clip is they feel they've gotta talk to their vic. Schaeffer remembered some old Western where this kid tracks down the gunslinger who killed his father. The kid's holding a gun on him and explaining why he's about to die, you killed my father, yadda, yadda, yadda, and the gunslinger gets this bored look on his face, pulls out a hidden gun, and blows the kid away. He looks down at the body and says, "You gonna talk, talk. You gonna shoot, shoot." Which is just what Robert Schaeffer did now.


From the anthology: Manhattan Noir edited by Lawrence Block

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