Half Ojibway Indian, half French Canadian, the Blackbird is a professional: one shot, one kill. So when trigger-happy Richie Nix hijacks the Blackbird's Cadillac and takes him for a ride to extort $10,000 from an estate agent, it's unfortunate that a veteran ironworker and his smart wife get in their way. One of the Blackbird's rules is never to leave living witnesses...'A genuine sense of the dangerous edge of things which induces frenzied page-turning' - Observer.