Gun for Hire

Gun for Hire opens with a hard-boiled sci-fi premise: a gun is only a tool, and the man hired to use it is just as expendable. Joe Prantera, a mob gunman in the middle of an assassination attempt, suddenly finds himself ripped out of 1960 Los Angeles and dropped into the strange, polished world of Nuevo Los Angeles in the year 2133. Disoriented and suspicious, he is confronted by the polished, unsettling Lawrence Reston-Farrell and then by Warren Brett-James, who reveal that Joe has been brought to the future for a purpose. As Joe struggles to understand the alien city, the unfamiliar manners, and the hidden power behind his abduction, the story builds a tense blend of crime, time travel, and social contrast. Gritty, provocative, and full of danger, it sets up a high-stakes mission in which loyalty, violence, and survival are all on the line. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.