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He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. \"What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. 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