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Julius Caesar

An adaptation of the classic drama in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate the leader on the Ides of March.
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The assassination of Fred Hampton

how the FBI and the Chicago police murdered a Black Panther
2011
It's around 7:00 a.m. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancee. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looks at Jeff and asks, "What can you do?" The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Haas's personal account of how he and People's Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton's assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Not only a story of justice delivered, the book puts Hampton in a new light as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration in the fight against injustice.
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El puente de los asesinos

Captain Diego Alatriste along with his two comrades Sebastian Copons and Moor Gurriato are ordered to intervene against a crucial Spanish crown conspiracy, an assassination during Christmas Mass in Venice.
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1968 with Tom Brokaw

Award-winning journalist, Tom Brokaw, recalls the revolutionary events of 1968 that forever changed the nation and the world including the assassinations of Martin Luther King , Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic National Convention, the Civil Rights Movement, and the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency.

Peril at the grand prix

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

Instruments of death

Shen, a young zither player in ancient China, is enlisted to perform for the emperor--a task that places his life in peril.

Chasing King's killer

the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
James L. Swanson weaves together Martin Luther King Jr.'s tumultuous last year and the path taken by a mysterious, lifelong criminal---James Earl Ray---a prison escapee who ended the celebrated civil rights leader's life.

Spy School secret service

2018
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.

Mafia spies

the inside story of the CIA, gangsters, JFK, and Castro
2019
A definitive account of America's most remarkable espionage plot ever--with CIA agents, mob hitmen, 'kompromat' sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. This book revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro's own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration's 'Get Castro' obsession in Washington. Who killed Johnny and Sam--and why wasn't Castro assassinated despite the CIA's many clandestine efforts?.

Julius Caesar

An adaptation of Shakespeare's play about the assassination of Julius Caesar and the defeat of those involved in the conspiracy.

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