Lester Taube started his military career with the horse artillery at the age of fifteen. He was a platoon leader during World War II, fighting in Iwo Jima and
Okinawa. He left the army to run a series of successful business ventures, then returned to military service as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an
intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, and as a general staff officer in intelligence and war plans during the Vietnam war.  Prior to his
retirement as a full Colonel, he lived in a small village in Austria before moving back to the United States, where he now resides in New Jersey. He is the
author of four highly-acclaimed books published throughout the world including Myer for Hire, The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov and The Grabbers
(The Diamond Boomerang).
        Myer For Hire

A hilarious satire that fills each page with laughter

Myer Ronis is a short, fat, law-abiding citizen, a
lover of poetry and good conversation, a man of
duty who respects his sister and is polite to his
brother-in-law, and loves his mother. Can this
same Myer Ronis be a hired killer, the merciless
butcher of untold victims?  Can Myer Ronis be the
Assassin?

The Assassin travels to Los Angeles to make a hit
- in other words, to fill some person with lead
jujubes.  But the West Coast mob  learns he is
coming and tries to stop him.  They send Bogar,
who eliminates people just for pleasure, but the
Assassin turns him into goulash. They send a
helicopter with twenty gunmen and thirty-four
cases of nitroglycerin, but, after the bang, there is
no 'copter or gunman.

On the train, he meets Harry Bella, a clothing
manufacturer, who has a spinster daughter,
named Tillie.  Myer gets an offer he can't refuse.

But the mob has not given up.  They send sixty top
guns to meet him in Los Angeles, but somehow he
walks right through them.

Can a good boy like Myer Ronis be the Assassin?
And if he isn't, who is?
Text on this site Copyright © 2005Lester S. Taube, all rights reserved.
Acclaimed author, Lester Taube’s five books include his latest, Atonement for Iwo.  The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov, The Grabbers (the Diamond
Boomerang) and Myer for Hire are published in several languages and two were sold for films.


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