Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassin, total secrecy is part of the job. But after a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want his target, a TV reporter, killed? Was he set up from the start? The questions lead Weston to his nemesis Hoffer, a private detective who has been hunting him for years. Ever since Weston accidentally killed an innocent American girl, her grieving father has employed Hoffer on a relentless mission to bring Weston to justice.

Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 0316018856 (November, 2007), 485 p., $6.99.

Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassin, total secrecy is part of the job. But after a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want his target, a TV reporter, killed? Was he set up from the start? The questions lead Weston to his nemesis Hoffer, a private detective who has been hunting him for years. Ever since Weston accidentally killed an innocent American girl, her grieving father has employed Hoffer on a relentless mission to bring Weston to justice.

Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts. Little, Brown, & Co., ISBN: 0316009121 (November, 2006), 378 p., $24.99.

Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
A shot rings out, the woman dies instantly. But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper.

But the assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. One mistake was enough, a long time ago, when a young American girl had accidentally received the fatal bullet. After all those years, the father of the dead girl still had a private eye named Hoffer on a permanent retainer to track him down. Every time Weston completed a job, he knew Hoffer would not be far behind.

But why had the police been on the scene so quickly? Weston has to find out - even if it means coming face to face with Hoffer...

Ian Rankin: Bleeding Hearts. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752877283 (February, 2006), 404 p., £6.99.

Ian Rankin as Jack Harvey: Bleeding Hearts (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
A shot rings out, the woman dies instantly. But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper. But the assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. One mistake was enough, a long time ago, when a young American girl had accidentally received the fatal bullet. After all those years, the father of the dead girl still and a private eye named Hoffer on a permanent retainer to track him down. Every time Weston completed a job, he knew Hoffer would not be far behind. But why had the police been on the scene so quickly? Weston has to find out - even if it means coming face to face with Hoffer...

Ian Rankin as Jack Harvey: Bleeding Hearts. Orion Books, ISBN: 075284332X (July, 2001), 416 p., £6.99.