The Ax

✍ Scribed by Westlake, Donald E

• Book ID: 110480503
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 285 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780759522954

✦ Synopsis

The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.

Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.