Shoot for the Face

Kill or be killed.If you must be certain shoot for the face.So this is another mafia story? Gangsters hoods?Well no. Its a book about lawyers and bankers. But these lawyers and bankers are trapped in the beginnings of what quickly turned out to be the most criminal society of modern times.Public servants police ministers all the way up to the top are looking for targets.Tax officials dont bother with polite letters. They raid their victims go through every file sell business secrets to competitors blackmail owners into destitution. Jason Rogers Texan jumped at the opportunities thrown open by the collapse of Communism. Carl Fitzmaurice South African lawyer young bored with the easy money in the London financial behemoth joins in.Kandinsky oligarch stretches his financial luck and aims to get out of his nearly billion-dollar debts.Pearson London lawyer only in it for the money - helps Kandinsky hide his money or thinks he does. Akhmatov hails from a part of the East that has been a battleground for centuries. He hacks the legs off accountants and lawyers to order. Thats his employers way of collecting debts.Ovchinnikov is a murderer for hire too. But he keeps a sense of proportion. When he needs to shoot the bodyguard he thinks it only fair to shoot the celebrity too.Melnikov Cabinet Minister always in search of profits blackmail bribes.Soloviev tax inspector not as cautious as he needs to be targets Jason Rogers. This is a world where a bottle of average Bordeaux costs the equivalent of one months pension.The people in this book though live the high life - champagne caviar top restaurants smart young women who eat their male counterparts for breakfast.And just about everyone comes to a grisly but spectacular end.