Five books showing the versatility of the assassin genre

Rob Hart is the author of The Paradox Hotel, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award that was named one of the best books of 2022 by Kirkus and NPR.

He also wrote The Warehouse, which sold in more than 20 languages around the world.

He is also the author of the Ash McKenna crime series, the short story collection Take-Out, the novella Scott Free with James Patterson, and the comic book Blood Oath with Alex Segura.

[My Book, The Movie: Potter's Field; The Page 69 Test: Potter's Field; The Page 69 Test: The Warehouse; The Page 69 Test: The Paradox Hotel]

Hart's new novel is Assassins Anonymous.

At Shepherd he tagged five of the best books to show you the versatility of the assassin genre. One title on the list:

The Killing Kind by Chris Holm

Michael Hendricks is a hitman with a very particular skillset—if you can afford him, he’ll kill the person who is trying to kill you.

Holm’s book is riddled with pulse-pounding action and excellent character work, but at the core of it is an incredibly engaging protagonist…who happens to be sparring with a deliciously evil antagonist.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 69 Test: The Killing Kind.

--Marshal Zeringue