assassins

Part memoir, part meditation, Vowell offers readers a roadmap that illuminates the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered and shaped our nation's history.

A mild-mannered professor is forced to assume again the deadly alter ego he created in Vietnam years ago as part of the Medusa Brigade.

Shelby Cervosier flees to America with her sister after she agreed to go on a treacherous mission in Haiti--in exchange for legal amnesty and political asylum over the manslaughter charges she faced after she was raped--and the man who hired her wants her dead, but she is followed by two assassins--Hank Pekins and Vlad, "The Impaler.".

GhostWalker Nicolas Trevane sets out to rescue Dahlia Le Blanc, a government operative with astonishing telekinetic talents, targeted by a traitor who has hired mercenaries to kill her.

Traces the lives and motives of thirteen men who assassinated or attempted to assassinate leading figures in American history, including several Presidents.

Three very different detectives work with and against each other as they engage in their obsessive pursuits of Witch, an ingenious assassin who must be stopped before carrying out a deadly assignment that will have international repercussions.

When hit man Will Robie refuses to kill his target he has to go on the run from his own people, and, along the way, he meets up with a fourteen-year-old runaway who is in danger after her parents were murdered.

Presents a humorous exploration of the historical events surrounding the assassinations of three United States presidents--McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln--and travels to various sites, monuments, and museums, examining the role of death and violence in popular culture.

John Larry Ray, eldest brother of James Earl Ray, argues that his brother could not have assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was instead set up as the fall guy for a dangerous government conspiracy.