Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All - Softcover

Jonasson Jonas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008155577 ISBN 13: 9780008155575

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2016

Synopsis

In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers accidentally collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio forms an unusual new business and quickly builds a clientele of rich Swedish gangsters. Suddenly, they're making an altogether different kind of killing of their own. But when Killer-Anders begins asking deeper questions about purpose and meaning, his curiosity leads him to an unexpected discovery: he finds Jesus. Desperate to save the money machine they've built, Killer-Anders' partners devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders' newfound and decidedly fervent faith.

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From the Back Cover:

A gangster, a vicar, and a receptionist walk into a bar . . .

Killer-for-hire Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets two unlikely new business partners at a one-star hotel: one, an atheist former Protestant vicar fired from her church, and the other the hotel’s receptionist, the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire. Together they cook up an idea for an enterprising venture involving Swedish gangsters that is set to make them all a fortune—until, all of a sudden and to everyone’s surprise, Anders finds Jesus. It was the perfect plan—except for Hitman Anders’s curiosity about the meaning of it all. In conversations with the vicar, he turns to Jesus and, against all odds, Jesus answers him! Anders’s sudden interest in religion might be good for his soul, but it’s not good for business, and the vicar and the receptionist have to find a new plan, quick.

As wildly funny and unexpected as Jonasson’s previous bestselling novels, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a zany, feel-good adventure story that tenderly and hilariously explores belief, redemption, and the fact that it’s never too late to start again.

About the Author:

Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0008155577
• ISBN 13: 9780008155575
• Binding: Paperback