Post by Man in Black on Apr 4, 2006 23:08:47 GMT -5
1st book in the
Widowmaker Trilogy
304 pages
Spectra (July 1, 1996)
Jefferson Nighthawk is the perfect killing machine. Known as the Widowmaker, the ultra efficient bounty hunter has no equal. Problem is... he's dying of an incurable disease. Frozen for a couple hundred years awaiting a cure, the Widowmaker is cloned for one final mission. If the new nighthawk can succeed the original may live to kill another day.
Mike Resnick has a distinct style. He likes to create larger than life characters for his even more larger than life main character to kill. It works. Wait until you meet Father Christmas and The Marquis of Queensbury.
I like the contrast created by the flaws Resnick puts into his three month old clone. Nighthawk effortlessly sends whole rooms full of men to the grave yet he flails about like a thirteen year old nerd when it comes to his infatuation, the blue-skinned Melisande.
I enjoyed The Widowmaker immensely and I'm reading book two of the trilogy right now. It lacks depth, but that's part of the appeal.
I'll give The Widowmaker [glow=red,2,300]7 out of 10[/glow]
