{"id":20501,"title":"The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning","dimensions":"20.9 x 13.9 cm, 247 p., language : English, publisher : AmazonCrossing, Las Vegas, ISBN : 9781611091397","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel, book","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2029/586","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"the-hitman-s-guide-to-housecleaning","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/042/094/medium_500/20181019080733848_0001.jpg?1539932822","cached_actor_names":"Hallgrímur Helgason","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/042/094/large/20181019080733848_0001.jpg?1539932822","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTomislav Boksic, aka Toxic, is a professional hitman for the Croatian Mafia in New York. His record is near flawless, he has 66 killings on his CV, when killing number 67 proves to be a failure. The victim turns out to be an\u0026nbsp;FBI\u0026nbsp;guy. Forced to flee the States, Toxic finds himself at\u0026nbsp;JFK\u0026nbsp;at the beginning of the novel. There he spots the FBI waiting for him at the gate. He turns and hides in the men\u0026rsquo;s\u0026rsquo; room, contemplating his moves, when out from one of the stalls comes another bald guy, who looks a bit like him. Being a pro, Toxic kills the bald man, takes on his clothes, ID, passport and air ticket. The dead one turns out to be a TV-evangelist from\u0026nbsp;Richmond\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia\"\u003e, \u003c/a\u003eVirginia, on his way to Iceland to preach on a local Christian TV station. So the Croatian hitman arrives in Reykjavik, disguised as a TV preacher. A classic tale of mistaken identities, the novel asks the question: Can the bad guy become good? It also offers an outsider\u0026rsquo;s view of Iceland, that according to the author was \u0026ldquo;a fun challenge: To write about my home country as if I had never been there before\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://hallgrimurhelgason.com/portfolio-items/the-hitmans-guide-to-housecleaning/\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2456,"name":"Hallgrímur Helgason","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}