Jake Skowran has been laid off from his job and has six months of unemployment left before he is dead broke. Jake's bookie offers him a brilliant solution to his financial woes. But being a hit man isn't all it's cracked up to be. Levison's irony is acute as he caricatures the working world's groundlings' - The New York Times Book Review '[A] dark, satirical comedy... Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his firt book' - USA Today'