Johnny Mc Carter, A hitman for hire learns he has cancer, with only weeks to live, he struggles to leave his life of crime.
Mc Carter has no family, no friends, he's a loner and no one will mourn him when he is dead and buried. Killing has been a way of life for Mc Carter and he is at the top of his profession, both respected and feared in Melbourne's underworld.
But now Mc Carter wants out of the game but his boss, Len Taylor, needs him while a truce is being negotiated between a rival gang, with crooked cops chairing the meet. With the news of his impending death and having the power of life or death over his victims, Mc Carter now takes an existentialist view of life and death and killing.
If Mc Carter now deems fit to grant a contracted kill, life, then so be it. As Mc Carter's health quickly deteriorates he wants out of his life of crime. Len Taylor accepts his resignation on the condition he completes one last job.
Mc Carter is set-up as a revenge kill to guarantee the truce with the rival gang. Mc Carter barely escapes the set-up and leaves town with a price on his head. Although Mc Carter escaped being killed he can't escape death. Mc Carter's health and strength is deteriorating, the pain is unbearable and the end is near so he decides on a course of action.
Mc Carter, unrepentant, plans to leave this world, guns blazing, as the kind of man he is: a killer. For in the end, no one gets out alive.
Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Australian, Neo-noir, Crime, Aussie Noir
About The Author
After a short career in advertising Joe Villanti began writing, directing, and producing low-budget short films that were well received by audiences.
As writing was where his talents lay, he began writing feature scripts, managing to earn script funding through, Film Victoria New Writers’ Scheme, Screen Australia, and KOSO funding, Pathways; including hiring Larry Karaszewski (writer of Ed Wood, The People v Larry Flynt, 1408) as script editor and winning or being well placed in several international scriptwriting competitions.
As well as scriptwriting, he has also collaborated with comedian CJ Fortuna on a sketch comedy show, ‘Angry Piñata’, that has won several major comedy awards including: International Comedy Channel Short Film Festival Best Film and a sell out season at the prestigious Red Stitch Theatre.
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