Of All the Bloody Cheek
by Frank McAuliffe
From back cover Ballantine paperback March 1971:
AUGUSTUS MANDRELL
WHO IS HE?
no birth certificate
no passport
no identification
no fixed address
In fact, he is not officially alive. He has, of course, arranged it that way.
WHAT IS A COMMISSION?
A commission is what Augustus Mandrell commits. Namely, murder.
WHY?
Because Mandrell is a man unlike any other - a heartwarming throwback, a rampant individualist, a killer who admires beauty in all things (rugs, money, girls, money, jewels, money) yet whose final objective is not pecuniary. Rather it is meeting the impossible challenge -- a veritable underground Don Quixote -- with cunning, bravado and neat dispatch. Mandrell has taken the twentieth century ethic of ultimate violence and by diligence, determination, and total concentration, made killing something beautifully his own. Naturally he must accept proper remuneration. His devotion leaves him no time to make a living in any other way.
SO MANDRELL KILLS FOR PROFIT.
You'll love him.
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