This is another boonie dog book review by Wolfie and Kansas. Lawrence Block's "Hit Man" is a breath of fresh air in the contract killer genre. Hit men in books have tended to be miscaninthropic. Rex Feral included a section on the elimination of guard dogs in "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors". Donald Goines' Daddy Cool murdered a German shepherd in cold blood. However, Block's hit man, Keller, likes dogs and is a tolerably conscientious companion to a dog for a portion of this book.Block's "Hit Man" is a collection of short stories which, taken together, form as coherent a whole as any novel. The reader witnesses Keller's moral development over time. We hope that Block continues writing Keller stories and developing this character. Keller has the potential to become a canine rights activist like Rex Miller's Daniel "Chaingang" Bunkowski.