The Good Assassin

The Good Assassin
Author :
Publisher : Mariner Books
Total Pages : 331
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781328613080
ISBN-13 : 1328613089
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Good Assassin by : Stephan Talty

"The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice, a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--

The Good Assassin

The Good Assassin
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501110429
ISBN-13 : 150111042X
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Good Assassin by : Paul Vidich

Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958, just months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He's looking into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of putting weapons, covertly provided by the CIA to Batista, into the hands of Castro's forces. As the FBI, CIA, and State Department compete to influence the outcome of the revolution in the face of the brutal dictatorship's imminent collapse, Graham is troubled by the hypocrisy of a bankrupt US foreign policy, and has fallen in love with a married American woman.

Assassin

Assassin
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780802723802
ISBN-13 : 0802723802
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Assassin by : Anna Myers

Bella isn't evil. But even people with good intentions can end up doing bad things. Especially when they meet people with the power to persuade them to do almost anything, like John Wilkes Booth-the most charismatic and famous actor of his time. So when Booth sets his sights on Bella, an assistant seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln, to help with his plot to kidnap President Lincoln, he is able to persuade her to betray her president and even turn her back on the boy she has loved her entire life. Bella believes Booth is only trying to force the North to release Southern war prisoners, and will not harm her dear friend Mr. Lincoln. But the kidnapping plot fails, and now Booth will stop at nothing--even if it means harming Bella in the process. Anna Myers has crafted a provocative new look at the Lincoln assassination through the eyes of both a young White House insider and the assassin himself. An author's note provides the historical background to this tragic event.

The Assassin's Curse

The Assassin's Curse
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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781908844026
ISBN-13 : 1908844027
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Assassin's Curse by : Cassandra Rose Clarke

Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allying pirate clan: she wants to captain her own boat, not serve as second-in-command to her handsome yet clueless fiance. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns the scorned clan has sent an assassin after her. And when the assassin, Naji, finally catches up with her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse — with a life-altering result. Now Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work together to break the curse and return their lives back to normal. Or at least as normal as the lives of a pirate and an assassin can be. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin
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Publisher : Emblem Editions
Total Pages : 578
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781551994949
ISBN-13 : 1551994941
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Blind Assassin by : Margaret Atwood

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is “The Blind Assassin,” a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 500
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416567370
ISBN-13 : 1416567372
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Prayers for the Assassin by : Robert Ferrigno

SEATTLE, 204. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edge of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will....

WARP Book 1: The Reluctant Assassin

WARP Book 1: The Reluctant Assassin
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Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages : 347
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781423181156
ISBN-13 : 1423181158
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis WARP Book 1: The Reluctant Assassin by : Eoin Colfer

Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.

The Perfect Assassin: A David Slaton Novel

The Perfect Assassin: A David Slaton Novel
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Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Total Pages : 476
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781933515274
ISBN-13 : 1933515279
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Perfect Assassin: A David Slaton Novel by : Ward Larsen

USA Today Best-Selling Author & Winner of Florida Book Award Silver Medal One Perfect Shot Will Change the Course of History Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery—a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye. David Slaton is a Kidon—a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in grave danger. Will they win in this race against time? With the precision of a sharpshooter, author Ward Larsen weaves an intricate tale of espionage and intrigue. The Bourne Identity meets The Day of the Jackal

The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780197523377
ISBN-13 : 0197523374
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Assassin by : Peter Stothard

Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story. The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now. The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival.

The Fifth Assassin

The Fifth Assassin
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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages : 423
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780446554008
ISBN-13 : 0446554006
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fifth Assassin by : Brad Meltzer

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White--the hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Inner Circle--discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they were wrong? Beecher is about to discover the truth: that during the course of a hundred years, all four assassins were secretly working together. What was their purpose? For whom do they really work? And why are they planning to kill the current President? Beecher's about to find out. And most terrifyingly, he's about to come face-to-face with the fifth assassin.