Review: Take No Prisoners
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
Take No PrisonersWhen a person has his ticket and it needs to be punched for the final time, a paid assassin is the ultimate ticket puncher.Damion Wolf didn't hunker down with his high school guidance counselor, take standardized aptitude tests, and decide he wanted to be an assassin. Rather, years ago events beyond his control forced him into his grim occupation.Now, Wolf is tired of his murder-for-hire work and lifestyle. He wants out.  But will his employers accept his resignation? Or will he find he has his own ticket, ready to be punched under the cover of darkness?A neon sign is flashing brightly, spelling out DANGER in Wolf's mind. Another blinked DIVE … DIVE … DIVE.Mike Pettit's gritty, take-no-prisoners writing style in Panama Takedown reminds me of Dashiell Hammett. The short work packs in tons of action and adventure in its pages, leaving blood and violence in its wake.