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A review by tanja_alina_berg
The Ax by Donald E. Westlake
3.0
To quote Louise Penny: "There is a killer in every village. In every home. In every heart. All anyone needs is the right reason". Burke Devore has reason - he has been down-sized from the paper company where he worked as a line manager. That was two years ago. Now he has his heart set on eliminating the competition. He puts a fake ad in the papers, receives lots of cv's, sorts them according to how "dangerous" they are and begins to cross them off. He wasn't a cold-blooded killer to start with, so he has some initial struggles. Some parts of this story is quite funny, or maybe I just have a morbid sort of humour.
Burke is not a particularly sympathetic character, but I could empathize with his situation anyway. It must be horrible to be unemployed - it's been one of my big fears personally, although I've not experienced it after I was done with school. I don't think a couple of days count in that respect. A man's got to do what a man's got to do. So how long can Burke go on without getting caught and will he reach his goal of employment in exactly the same type of job he did before?
Burke is not a particularly sympathetic character, but I could empathize with his situation anyway. It must be horrible to be unemployed - it's been one of my big fears personally, although I've not experienced it after I was done with school. I don't think a couple of days count in that respect. A man's got to do what a man's got to do. So how long can Burke go on without getting caught and will he reach his goal of employment in exactly the same type of job he did before?