WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS: “Small tough-guy delights pierce the brooding atmosphere of The Man Who Asked to Be Killed, establishing McCann as the innovator of what someday might be known as Maryland Noir … As the likelihood of arrest or death by assassination looms larger and larger, the suspense thermometer rises higher and higher … Other aspects of the novel rival this center of interest … the sophisticated handling of the relationships between characters … evocation of setting —including Annapolis...” Philip K. Jason, emeritus professor of English, US Naval Academy