mercenary jobs

• Too Small by Half

..."It's crazy around here.". But, by mercenary taxpayer standards, Waskada shouldn't exist. With ... housing shortage as oil workers move in for jobs expected to last at least a decade. Said the AMM's...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• July 21, 2010

• Seamless Narrative of Escalating Suspense

That talent is lock-picking, but it's Mike's artistic skills that enable communion with an unlikely soulmate and, in a blackmailing turn, make him a pawn for professional thieves. Tutored by an aging "boxman," Mike is summoned to safe-cracking jobs across America until a bloody, double-crossing venture puts him in the crosshairs. There's no sign of L.A. itself as a sensuous, full-blooded player, the hallmark of earlier [Robert Crais] works, and to say the storyline and character insight are paper-thin is to wish the latter into nothingness. With Cole's wisecracking charm sidelined, Pike's one-dimensional role is writ large and sadly unleavened. The catalyst for mayhem in [James W. Hall]'s Silencer (Minotaur, 288 pages, $30) is a cash-and-land swap that would add both [Thorn]'s land and ...

... Pike tracking the murderers of an ex-mercenary pal and his family, pawns in a Serbian gun-running...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 17, 2010

• Re-appraising Canada's northern 'internal colonies'.

..., resulting in the loss of 223 civil service jobs (Thompson, 2008). The rationale for these cuts is ... subject to the machinations of a mercenary core--a suppositian that conveniently assigns "gov...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2009, March 2009