I'm just getting ino Spares by Michael Marshall Smith, but I
thought I'd share this amusing description of Dath, a reputed
hitman:
The word was he'd worked his way up the ladder in the
old-fashioned way, beginning by being cutting to people: for
a hundred dollars he'd march into someone's place, look them
up and down, and go "Yeah, great suit," in a really ironic
way, and then leave. His specialty was the
"overheard conversation" hit. Wherever the target went -- in
a restaurant, in a bar, in the john -- Dath would be
somewhere just out of sight, talking loudly about
postmodernism. It eventually drove the target crazy.
He always denied it. I was never sure.
Mark
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