assassination

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Assassinations that shook America

1992
Examines the causes and effects of the assassination of seven prominent Americans, including the four presidents killed in office and such significant political leaders as Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

Peril at the grand prix

Italy
2008
Special agent Jack Stalwart travels to Italy to protect professional car racer Morgan Parks from an assassin.

The Lord of death

2009
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing Investigator, on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. During a trip he comes upon an accident when suddenly two people are shot in an approaching car. One is the Chinese minister of tourism and the other a blond westerner. The blond dies in his arms but when Shan tries to report the death he is told she did not die. As he looks for the killer he discovers that the fate of his son is bound up in his search.

Julius Caesar

Manga Shakespeare
2008
A graphic adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March.

Assassination

the politics of murder
1998
A chronological guide to assassinations, and failed attempts, throughout history, with information on the intended victims, the motivation of the attackers, and the impact of the event on history and politics.

Assassination in America

1977
Examines the background circumstances, personalitites, and events involved in the murders or attempted murders of Lincoln, Garfield, Cermak, John and Robert Kennedy, King, and other important Americans.

The Thomas Berryman number

1996
Nashville reporter Ochs Jones decides to do a little investigating of his own when the beloved African-American mayor of the city is assassinated and the facts surrounding the case and the suspected killer fail to make sense.

The day of the jackal

1995
The jackal is an Englishman who is a killer at the top of his profession, a man unknown to any secret service in the world, and an assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

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