Like a Hole in the Head

Like a Hole in the Head is a 1970 thriller love story novel by British writer James Hadley Chase.^[1]

Like a Hole in the Head

First edition (publ. Robert Hale)
Author	James Hadley Chase
Original title	Like a Hole in the Head
Country	UK
Language	English
Publisher	Robert Hale
Publication date	1970

Plot summary

Ace marksman Jay Benson lives a retired life from the army with his beloved wife Lucy, and starts a school for training in firearm shooting. Unfortunately they fall short of money, when Augusto Savanto walks into their lives, promising Jay a huge sum of money in return for teaching his son Timoteo, who is totally uninterested in shooting. He wants his son to be able to shoot like an expert in just nine days. Benson agrees but soon realizes that he has entered a circle of revenge and murders involving mafias, in which he must participate, else it could affect both Lucy and him.

Film

The 1992 Russian film Sniper (Russian: Снайпер), which was filmed at Brezhnev's former dacha Wisteria (Russian: «Глициния») built in 1955 as Gosdacha No. 1 (Russian: Госдача №1) in Nizhnyaya or Lower Oreanda (Russian: Нижняя Ореанда) on the southern coast of Crimea next to the Livadia Palace, is based upon Like a Hole in the Head.^[2][3][4][a]

Notes

1. Hennadiy Moskal alleged that the first gas war between Kyiv and Moscol occurred in 2004 because Putin wanted Wisteria "as the official residence of the President of Russia in the Crimea", according to the Crimean prosecutor Viktor Shemchuk, but Kyiv did not want Putin to obtain the property through a loan from VTB and a 12 November 2004 contract for the purchase of Wisteria was voided after Viktor Yushchenko became president of Ukraine in the spring of 2005.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Revealed in 2021, persons closely associated with Putin allegedly obtained control of Wisteria for Putin's use.^[4]

References

1. Bloom, Clive. Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900. Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
2. "Snayper 1992". IMDb. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
3. Винник, Сергей (Vinnik, Sergey) (8 August 2019). ["Wisteria" will bloom: Brezhnev's favorite dacha sold for 1.2 billion in Crimea]. Российская газета - Столичный выпуск № 174(7932) (rg.ru) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. Proekt Team (10 February 2021). [Golden cages Part 1: The story of how Vladimir Putin's entourage bought Leonid Brezhnev's palace that he liked]. «Проект» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022. Alternate archive
5. "Москаль: После заявлений Балоги мне хочется эмигрировать в Парагвай" [Muscovite: After Baloga's statements, I want to emigrate to Paraguay]. forUm (for-ua.com) (in Russian). 10 April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
6. Кучма, Леонид (Kuchma, Leonid) (2007). «После Майдана. Записки президента. 2005—2006» [After the Maidan. Notes of the President. 2005—2006] (in Russian). Довира, Время. ISBN 978-5-9691-0094-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. Дрёмова, Наталья (Dryomova, Natalya) (23 August 2019). [Dacha for the General Secretary. How did the Soviet leaders rest in the Crimea?]. "Аргументы и Факты" № 34 21/08/2019 (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. [Crimean authorities rescued 1.2 billion rubles for Brezhnev's favorite dacha]. Interfax (in Russian). 7 August 2019. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2022.

External links

• Like a Hole in the Head at Fantasticfiction.co.uk