the Kennedys, the Castros, and the politics of murder
Russo, Gus
2008
Presents a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy, using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources.
Five members of a secret CIA agency find themselves targeted for assassination by the very agency that created them, and they must work together to survive and expose the agency's secrets.
Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Examines evidence, for and against, of notable assasinations, mysterious disappearances, deaths, and murders, providing plausible scenarios for different conclusions from the original findings.
Brutus, best friend of the Roman ruler Caesar, reluctantly joins a successful plot to murder Caesar and subsequently destroys himself. Includes notes and an introduction.
Hans Bernd Gisevius, who survived Hitler's retaliation after the failure of the Valkyrie conspiracy, discusses the anti-Hitler movement that began in 1933 and his recollections of the events and people involved in the planting of a bomb inside Adolf Hitler's headquarters, which exploded without killing Hitler.
A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.
