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The Perfect Kill - A Personal History of Modern Assassination

English · Paperback

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What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict: one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been dramatised by literature and politicised by infamous murders throughout history, and for Robert Baer, one of the most accomplished agents ever to work for the CIA, it's a source of endless fascination. Over several decades, Baer served as an operative, from Iraq to India and beyond. In THE PERFECT KILL, he takes us on a wildly entertaining narrative adventure through a history of political murder, interweaving his first-hand experience and his decades-long cat-and-mouse hunt for the greatest assassin of the modern age. A true maverick with an undeniably captivating personal story, Baer pulls back the curtain to give a glimpse of the underbelly of world politics, and the quiet murderers who operate on the fringe of our society.

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Authors Robert Baer, Baer Robert
Publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 08.10.2015
 
EAN 9781780228396
ISBN 978-1-78022-839-6
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 130 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
Series Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Subjects Fiction > Suspense
Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Social sciences, law, business > Political science

HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / World, military history, General and world history

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