TY - BOOK AU - Hunter,Phillip TI - To die for T2 - Killing Machine SN - 9781781852040 (pbk.) U1 - 823.92 23 KW - Suspense fiction N2 - Massive, glowering, and ugly as death, former soldier and ex-boxer Joe has always invited violence. But now Hackney’s most vicious gangs all want to kill him. Why? As he tries to unravel the knot of events that have made him a target, Joe is drawn back into his past, back to the memory of the only woman he ever loved. Brenda was a prostitute who dreamed of something better. Now she’s dead, and her murder, unsolved, haunts Joe every night. Then a twelve year old runaway enters his life. Kid is traumatised, mute, and sees Joe as her saviour. Life has made Joe a machine. Can Kid - as Brenda on ER -