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The Song Before It Is Sung - Justin Cartwright
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He had the main conspirators brutally strung up on meat hooks. Among the executed was Axel von Gottberg, a... -
The Road to Rome_ A Forgotten L - Ben Kane
SUMMARY: The third novel in The Forgotten Legion trilogy takes the main protagonists from North Africa back to Rome in the build-up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Having su... -
The Perfect Assassin - Ward Larsen
From Publishers WeeklyLarsen's competent debut has many of the right ingredients for a successful spy thriller: plenty of action, technical detail that would do Tom Clancy proud, a... -
The Mosaic of Shadows - Tom Harper
SUMMARY: Byzantium, 1096. A mysterious assassin releases an arrow aimed at the emperor---but he has more than just a man in his sights. A keystone of a crumbling empire, the empero... -
The Face of the Assassin - David Lindsey
From Publishers WeeklyForensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances ... -
The Ethical Assassin_ A Novel - David Liss
From Publishers WeeklyLiss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventions—drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guys—but salvages his novel from ... -
The Book of Fate - Brad Meltzer
From Publishers WeeklySet against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer's overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manni... -
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
SUMMARY:The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose ... -
The Assassin's Song - M. G. Vassanji
From Publishers WeeklyThe tension between India's centuries-old spiritual traditions and contemporary religious militancy drives this memorable, melancholy family saga by two-time ... -
Term Limits - Vince Flynn
SUMMARY: Taking America back...one politician at a time TERM LIMITS In one bloody night， three of Washington s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their...