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People Die Kindle Edition

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Kevin Wignall's debut novel, available on Kindle outside the US for the first time -

At 29, JJ has reached the peak of his career. He works out of a small consultancy in Zurich. He dates Aurianne - a beautiful air-hostess - but worries about whether he really loves her. But, thankfully, money is not a worry.

You see, JJ is a contract-killer.

Working freelance for a select organisation, he has built a reputation as a discreet, professional cleaner who doesn't cause trouble for employer or 'client' (beyond the obvious...). But when - after a disposing of a corpulent businessman - he becomes so fascinated with the man's beautiful companion that he lets her go, he starts a chain of events which will lead him to re-evaluate his whole life and beliefs.

Length: 246 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Black and filmic (The Times)

The body count in this tersely controlled thriller is extremely high and rather shocking, even for die-hard thriller readers like me. . . A good, fast read. (Daily Mail)

Terse and spooky, PEOPLE DIE is that most remarkable of things: a killer-thriller with humour and heart (The Face)

Unconventional and remarkable debut novel...The writing is fluent and thoughtful; there are no histrionics here. Even so Wignall is good on the mechanics of the hit, the banality of evil... thought- provoking stuff, well worth your time (Tangled Web)

Wignall's spare dispassionate prose - pulls you in as he details JJ's machinations to avoid the bullet himself and the casual killing of those in the wrong place at the wrong time (Big Issue)

But Kevin Wignall has managed to pull off the (almost) perfect anti-hero saga with admirable originality and economy of language ... People Die nonetheless engages the reader from the beginning and with a gripping twist worthy of le Carre or Fleming, Wignall turns an implausible plot into something very credible (Bristol Evening Post) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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A classy, laid-back, powerful and stunning debut from a new, young British writer. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B07B4J73V5
Publisher : Hamsun Press (27 February 2018)
Language : English
File size : 546 KB
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Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 246 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 5,259 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 91 in Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
- 105 in Espionage Thrillers (Books)
- 222 in Literary Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2019

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Kevin Wignall tries to describe the thoughts of a contract killer with heart as he tries to kill off people who are busy trying to kill him in a power struggle. Nice try and well written as usual but not convincing. The whole book is about lack of consequences and someone else cleaning up the mess in the background. JJ seems to be able to travel without restriction or without being detected. He also seems to be able to carry a gun with silencer on planes without any problem.

Plenty of gratuitous violence but I'm not sure the purpose of this book.

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I believe this was the first book by this author. I have read many of his other books before this one. I am glad that I did.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2018

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I found this book so slow. So boring. I cannot believe I even finished it. I expected more. I have bought another one of this author. I do hope it is better than this one. I do know that he has written some really good ones. Thank goodness. Otherwise he would be looking for another profession.

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Neil McVea

Well written; Slow to start then All Becomes Clear.

Reviewed in Australia on 8 November 2018

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Good to hear about a person who likes his job and is very good at it. Being a Hit Man is secondary. Very well written and am now reading another story by this author.

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Diana

Wandering for purpose

Reviewed in Australia on 7 July 2020

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Not sure what this was about. Felt like I must have missed the book written before People Die. Beautiful use of description and language.

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Stephen Crowe

Ludicrous scenario!

Reviewed in Australia on 14 November 2019

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The plot starts off quite well but descends into an unbelievable relationship between assassin and teenage daughter of his victim.

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Killer killing killers!

Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2019

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Not my style. A killer out to get the people who employed him

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Richard Latham

Why People Die

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2018

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Quite simply Kevin Wignall is in a class of his own.
I am so pleased that People Die has been made available for the first time outside the U.S.
That it has not previously been accessible, more so as it is his debut novel is almost unforgivable.
I simply devour anything he writes, my interest having been stirred by listening to him a few years ago at a U.K. book festival in Bristol.
His writing is economical, full of personality. Not a word misplaced, a sentence too long or a chapter over written. He tells dark stories that are accessible because he litters them with believable people. They maybe spies or hired assassins but they appear normal and in the main have basic human needs. It is this identification a reader can have within a story. It is not like empathy more like an acceptance of the events as they unfold. Not a cheering for the killers and players in their shady world but an understanding of them as the author opens the story all up.
People Die is a remarkable book. Pinch me it is more like a fifth or tenth novel of a writer who is comfortable within their discipline as a author.
It has a great deal of depth. A familiar plot of an organisation purging itself but is told in ways other books in this genre never aspire to or their writers would deem possible. JJ stumbles across a change in emphasis in his organisation where people don’t get fired, people die. Where employees don’t get the sack but a body bag.
.As a hired gun he has the skills to look after himself but the problem is who can he trust, how widespread is the downsizing going to be felt.
Familiar but told with a freshness but the uncertainty that JJ might not survive, maybe it is his time to die.
What is so special in reading Kevin’s books is the ease of the relationship he has with his readers and this subject. There is no overkill, no glorifying of death and the justification for killing is ever made, beyond, it is a job and often it was them or me.
People Die has that other magic ingredient. It tells a story, the characters grow as they reflect and interact. The book is brimming with ideas and nuances of this secret world of the dark arts. Many of them have been revisited by the author in subsequent works.
There is no apology here for violence and taking life, but we are offered an implied understanding as we read of JJ self awareness and personal insights as the plot develops.
The reader gets an experience that beats a day out at Alton Towers. That equals the most lavish banquet imagined and assimilates the story like a comfortable relaxing experience. Like the most pleasant of smells or the most romantic of dates.

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Nam71

A new author to me and since reading this I have read all of his others

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2019

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I found this book, more or less, by accident when I was running through a listing on Amazon.
I just loved it.
Wignall is superb at focusing on the anti-hero type of character and in this book, the main character is close to "Victor the assassin" and Jason Bourne with a bit of Harry Palmer thrown in for good measure.

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David Baker

An underrated writer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2021

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I wouldn't choose to read a book about a contract killer usually! But there really is something about this guy's writing which is genuinely exceptional in places - a rare shrewdness about the human condition and a wryly perceptive way of conveying it. He surprises me with how well he writes every time.

TVR-Andy

Very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2018

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I really enjoyed this novel, well written and entertaining. I like the way the story ties the murder of a person to their family several years later. This is the fifth book I have read from this author. All good.

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Great Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2018

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Another great story by Kevin with plenty off action and good strong characters. Lots of different locations and again an unexpected ending. Looking forward to reading more.

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