American Assassin

• Author : Vince Flynn
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 30 August 2011

Mitch Rapp broods over the deaths of his girlfriend and other classmates on Pan Am Flight 103, until he is recruited by the CIA and receives his first assignment--to kill the arms dealer who sold the bomb that killed his friends.

• Author : Robert J. Firth,J.C. Scott
• Publisher : eBookIt.com
• Release : 29 October 2017

This is a factual, no-nonsense book as told by a professional American assassin. The stories he tells are descriptions of true events with only a few names changed for obvious reasons. The author pulls no punches and never softens the story to make it more palatable. What you will read describes accurately the preparation, dedication, training and mind-set of a man and his associates who kill America's enemies for a living.

• Author : David Levinson
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 01 February 2023

"Authoritative and comprehensive, this multivolume set includes hundreds of articles in the field of criminal justice. Impressive arrays of authors have contributed to this resource, addressing such diverse topics as racial profiling, money laundering, torture, prisoner literature, the KGB, and Sing Sing. Written in an accessible manner and attractively presented, the background discussions, definitions, and explanations of important issues and future trends are absorbing. Interesting sidebars and facts,reference lists, relevant court cases, tables, and black-and-white photographs supplement the entries.

• Author : Jo Anne Ray
• Publisher : Olympic Marketing Corporation
• Release : 01 February 1973

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

• Author : John Bowyer Bell
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release : 01 February 1979

• Author : United States. U.S.-China Security Review Commission
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : Vince Flynn
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 20 March 2012

In this free collection of excerpts, enjoy a taste of all of Vince Flynn’s thrillers starring CIA superagent Mitch Rapp.

• Author : Michael Newton
• Publisher : Faber & Faber
• Release : 16 October 2012

These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'robber baron'. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, Age of Assassins

• Author : Juliana Tzvetkova
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 12 October 2017

A fascinating survey of popular culture in Europe, from Celtic punk and British TV shows to Spanish fashion and Italian sports. • Makes connections between pop culture in Europe to that of the United States • Provides further readings and a bibliography at the end of the work • Includes sidebars throughout the text with additional anecdotal information • Features appendices with top-ten lists of songs, movies, and books

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 April 2015

Everything you need to know about Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series! Hailed as “the king of high-concept political intrigue” (Dan Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code), Vince Flynn’s covert agent Mitch Rapp took the world by storm in his bestselling series, fighting terrorism and treason both at home and abroad, and captivating the minds of readers all across the world. This comprehensive compilation of characters is the ultimate guidebook to

• Author : Allen H. Redmon
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 19 March 2021

Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkülah Doğan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H. Redmon, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from a range of voices in adaptation studies. This anthology explores the political and ethical contexts of specific adaptations and, by extension, the act of adaptation itself. Grounded in questions of gender,

• Author : Sonja Schillings
• Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
• Release : 06 December 2016

Hostis humani generis, meaning "enemy of humankind," is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons as enemies of all humankind does more than characterize them as inherently hostile: it supplies a narrative basis for legitimating violence in the name of the state. The book draws attention to a century-old narrative pattern

• Author : Michael J Reiland
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 15 June 2017

Michael Rudy is a professional assassin who is comfortable with his ruthless jobuntil the day he decides he has had enough. After he loots cash meant for an impending drug deal and flees America for Paris to live out the rest of his days in peace, an unanticipated darkness follows him. Even after he is reunited with Stacy, the only woman he has ever loved, their reignited passion emerges from tragedy. Stacy and her associate, Arnaud, begin to suspect there

• Author : Juan Morrone
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 01 February 2023

"Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns. Panbiogeography, parsimony analysis of endemicity, cladistic biogeography, and phylogeography are the four recent and most common approaches. Many conceive of these methods as representing different "schools," but Morrone shows how each addresses different questions in the various steps of

• Author : Mel Ayton
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 February 2017

"A history of plotters, would-be assassins, and individuals who have threatened the lives of American presidents from Washington to Hoover and the story of the guards, agents, and officers who protected them"--