Kill The Hack

Adrano For Hire #2: “Kill The Hack” by Michael Bradley (Gary Blumberg). Adrano is hiding from his Mafia after trying to take over the New Jersey operation in the last novel. Don Rinaldi has put out a contract on him, but the #2 man, Stephen Rizzo wants Adrano to do a job for him. Rizzo had hired Louis Cerelli – The Hack – to kill Zito, an up and comer. The Hack does the job too well, for Rizzo’s girlfriend was in bed with Zito when The Hack killed him, Naturally, the crazy killer butchered Rizzo’s girlfriend also, then wisely disappeared. But he’s been spotted in Mexico, and Adrano has to find and kill The Hack, or be killed. It doesn’t matter to Rizzo who kills whom, but he wants one – or both – dead. This was a so-so story, though it sounded more like a fill-in story while the author looked for a real plot while making a deadline with a quick plot. However, the story did move, and there was some nice men’s action. But it is a let down after the first novel.