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Brut comes on like a freight train and never stops. A propulsive, electrifying novel about a hitman who is forced to take an impossible job, by the rising literary sensation and comedian Sam Tallent, author of Running The Light “With his American contract killer in Paris, Sam Tallent has created a protagonist you’ll never forget as the bodies pile up like cordwood. Violent, chilling, wonderfully well written, as modern as tomorrow—this is a novel for our times.”—Terry Hayes, New York Times bestselling author of I Am Pilgrim Robert Beaujolais forfeited the last years of his youth to the Marines, watching his friends die. Beaujolais survived, but civilian life made him regret it.