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A Red File for Callan
bookshelves: autumn-2012, mystery-thriller, radio-4x, published-1969
Read from September 15 to 21, 2012
#1 - Callan's Return: Ex-killer David Callan, now a dead-end bookkeeper, is hired for one last hit on businessman Schneider. Read by Ben Miles.
#2 - Preperation: Hunter has tasked Callan to kill German businessman Rudolf Schneider. Now all he needs is a gun from Lonely.
(did you catch the second hand car, a Morris Minor, bought for £50)
#3 - Doubt: Callan is keen to know why Hunter wants Schneider dead, so he conducts some research.
#4 - The Job: Schneider invites Callan round for dinner on Sunday. Callan has the gun. Sunday is the day he must use it.
Callan is washed up. The most efficient killer in Europe is working as a book-keeper for a small, dusty merchant. But Circumstances force Hunter to employ him for one last operation.
Schneider. Cheerful, friendly, affluent Schneider with his innocent passion for model soldiers. Callan hunts again And again his tool is Lonely, the most frightened little man in the underworld.
It is Lonely who gets him the gun, a Noguchi Magnum 38 calibre. A magnum for Schneider. The operation is studded with leathal booby-traps, but Callan's own inhibitions are the most dangerous
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