Overview

A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman is a dark, introspective exploration of morality, memory, and the price of violence. Far from a conventional crime thriller, Richard Marcs delivers a haunting psychological narrative told through the fractured voice of ""Notch,"" a professional killer whose latest contract unravels into a meditation on guilt, survival, and the futility of justification. The story begins when a wealthy woman coldly offers Notch four million dollars to kill her husband. What follows is not just the anatomy of a contract killing, but a descent into the hitman's own memories - from a brutal childhood in foster care to the violent choices that shaped his path. As past and present blur, the novel examines what it means to live without redemption, where survival depends on detachment and the human soul is a casualty of the job. Written with gallows humor, literary allusions, and razor-sharp prose, A Murder Most Foul is part confession, part fugue, and part philosophical riddle. Readers who value complex antiheroes, nonlinear storytelling, and morally charged fiction will find themselves immersed in a tale that is both unsettling and unforgettable.

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""Marcs has crafted an engrossing novel that is a literary equivalent to a jigsaw puzzle""- Dana Scheier, The News Echo ""Cheerful and violent. And thankfully not stuffed with Cartesian dualism.""-April Simmel, Kipling Road ""Richard Marcs writes with confidence and conviction. The voice is world-weary but sharp, poetic but not flowery. The prose is filled with gallows humor, literary allusions, and sentences that often read like lyrics or spoken-word confessionals.""-M. Fandel, The Westchester Journal

Author Information

Richard Marcs was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and moved to the United States at a young age. After graduating from Cornell University with a PhD in philosophy, he joined the U.S. Navy. His first assignment was aboard a submarine in the North Atlantic. After two years, he was transferred to Naval Intelligence, where he worked for the next 18 years. Upon his retirement from the Navy, he worked for various intelligence agencies all over the world before finally settling in Australia, where he took a position at the University of Walamaloo as head of the Philosophy department.After the huge success of his first novel, 'If There's Anybody Watching', Marcs retired and moved to the island of Bali to continue writing. While he occasionally volunteers to teach creative writing classes at Bali High School, most of his time is spent with his beautiful wife and their two puppies. He continues to write when the mood strikes him or when his wife wants new shoes.

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