Wild Target

Groomed by his parents Louisa and Felix Maynard to continue in the family business which a domineering Louisa believes is inherent in their blood, fifty-five year old Victor Maynard indeed became a hit-man. The one thing a now widowed, infirmed, care home residing Louisa laments is that Victor never fathered any children to carry on the family business after him, Victor too preoccupied with work to even think about a personal life. Victor's mode of operation is to remain anonymous to his clients to protect himself. His latest client, Ferguson, hires him to kill a con artist named Rose, who bilked Ferguson out of £900,000 in an art forgery scam. After a few failed attempts, Victor ends up instead going on the run not only with Rose but an innocent bystander named Tony, as Ferguson's personal thugs are on their tail to do the job that Victor couldn't seem to do. Rose and Tony, an inherently peaceful man but who is somewhat lost in life, have no idea that Victor is a hit-man who was hired to kill her, they believing he a private investigator, she ultimately hiring him to protect her in she never having been in such trouble before. As the trio tries to evade those after them, who eventually includes Victor's "replacement", Hector Dixon, Victor has to decide what to do with his life in this potentially career-ending gaffe, those thoughts which may be affected by his relationships with Rose and Tony and if they ever learn the truth about him.