Or was Chuck, a mercenary killer, merely using Bugs Barwold as a pretext to cover up some job for which he had been hired?

Willie had told him of the time when Mike Delgado, the mercenary killer, had held a gun on her at point-blank range.

Hired mercenary killers are closer to the truth.

"I had no idea government investigators were aware of Zale's secret circle of mercenary killers," said Sally in astonishment.

You know, there're people who think anybody in uniform is a mercenary killer.

Even hardened mercenary killers weren't of the same caliber these days.

One newspaper described Mr. Cakici as "the commander in chief of an army of mercenary killers."

Ultimately, of course, she fits the pieces of the case together and brings a clever, mercenary killer to justice.

I'm not a mercenary killer.

She says he's a mercenary killer working for the Americans.