Art Handel is a contract killer with an assignment, a cast-off dog, a stun gun and depression. Not a good combination. Factor in his friend, Minnie Fielding, who is suffering the attentions of a random stalker, his other friend, Alex Elinsky, who sees dead people, and, well, some days it's just all a little bit too much And then there's Viktor Mizzi, 'the contract' who won't comply with Art's order to kill. Or rather, to be killed. This is master storyteller Paris Portingale's first novel and introduces you to a world where most of us would prefer to look at through a window.