I loved this book--it was long listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, which is great because I always try to read those books, and I would not otherwise have picked this book up.
My husband calls this book 'When Bad Things Happen to Bad People'. Which is true. The book is set in the mid-19th century and is about two brothers who are contract killers. It is set in the American West, where this was more the norm than it is today, but the personalities are the same. Cold-hearted killers who will do whatever it takes to get out of a situation--and usually the situation is one of their making. Eli Sisters is the narrator, and he is a bit less sociopathic than his brother Charlie, whose first murder victim was his own father. Not that the man didn't deserve it, he did, but Charlie didn't feel any remorse, even for that.
The book is essentially one contract killing from start to finish, but as these things go the Sisters brothers do tend to get into trouble wherever they go. It is tongue-in-cheek clever and funny despite all the loss of life, and the story that is told, start to finish, is a very good one. Highly recommended.
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