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The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination
Robert Baer
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Description for The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780228396
SKU
V9781780228396
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About Robert Baer
Robert Baer spent 21 years in the CIA as a field operative. He resigned after leading an aborted attempt on Saddam Hussein. He is the author of four NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers. His memoir SEE NO EVIL was made into the Academy Award-winning movie SYRIANA. He anchored an Emmy-nominated British documentary series, THE CULT OF THE SUICIDE BOMBER. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination
riveting and insightful
BIGNEWSNETWORK.COM
This potted history of assassination, with its carefully worded anecdotes and sense of absolute authenticity is intriguing, terrifying and occasionally lightened by the author's drily black sense of humour
Russel D McLean
GLASGOW HERALD
The Perfect Kill is a meditation on the art of political murder. Baer knows his subject
... Read more
BIGNEWSNETWORK.COM
This potted history of assassination, with its carefully worded anecdotes and sense of absolute authenticity is intriguing, terrifying and occasionally lightened by the author's drily black sense of humour
Russel D McLean
GLASGOW HERALD
The Perfect Kill is a meditation on the art of political murder. Baer knows his subject
... Read more