Hopler, Jay (ed) - The Killing Spirit / Хоплер, Джей (ред) - Душа убийства [1998, EPUB, ENG]

from: This Gun for Hire / Наёмный убийца by Graham Greene The Hit Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle “Gentlemen, the King!” by Damon Runyon Loose Ends by Bharati Mukherjee from: The Butcher's Boy / Ученик мясника by Thomas Perry The Killers / Убийцы by Ernest Hemingway Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau) by Mark Rudman The Same Only Different! by Jiri Kajanë Hit Man / Наемный убийца by Charles Bukowski The Death of Mrs. Sheer / Смерть миссис Шир by Joyce Carol Oates Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell Cain by Andrew Vachs When This Man Dies / Если этот человек умрёт by Lawrence Block from: Ripley's Game / Игра мистера Рипли by Patricia Highsmit from: In the Beginning by Ian McEwan The Assassin by David Ray Shelter by David Kost

The door of Henry’s lunchroom opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter. “What’s yours?” George asked them. “I don’t know,” one of the men said. “What do you want to eat, Al?” “I don’t know,” said Al. “I don’t know what I want to eat.” Outside it was getting dark. The streetlight came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu. From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in. . . .