The provided excerpts from the novel "Guns Will Keep Us Together" by Leslie Langtry introduce Dakota Bombay, a professional assassin from a family of killers spanning back millennia, who navigates complex family assignments while grappling with personal crises. Dakota is forced by his mother to attend a blind date with Nora Adams to find a wife, while his grandmother tasks him and his cousin, Paris, with a marketing campaign for their assassination business, which is facing a downturn due to a competitor called National Resources. Amidst these professional challenges, Dakota suddenly discovers he has a young son named Louis, whose presence begins to change his life, especially as he starts a complicated romance with Leonie Doubtfire, a mortician who is revealed to be the sole surviving member of the rival assassination group he and Paris have been systematically eliminating. The narrative culminates in Dakota and Paris attempting to protect Leonie from the Bombay family Council, risking their own lives to save the woman who helped Dakota mature and find love.
