How to Kill - Couverture souple

Hollington, Kris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099502461 ISBN 13 : 9780099502463

Editeur : Arrow, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Exploding telephones, pipe-guns and bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives, cobra-venom darts, a rifle that shoots around corners, a 'piss bomb' (10 cups of boiled urine mixed with nitric acid), exploding clams, samurai swords, karate chops, poisoned umbrellas and a fuel-laden light aircraft. Sometimes even a regular gun. These are just some of the methods that have been used over the last fifty years to speed 4,000 VIPs to a premature end.

How to Kill is not an encyclopaedia of assassination but rather a gripping history that charts the development of the modern world through the eyes of the assassins that tried to change it. It is also a work of investigation, surprising conspiracies and remarkable connections are uncovered throughout.

This book is the first to study in detail not only the causes and surprising consequences of assassination, but also the crucial seconds of the act itself and the psychology of the assassin in an effort to understand why some assassinations succeed where others fail - and what might be done to prevent them. It is also the first book to examine the fascinating facts and figures of assassination, revealing everything from the success rate by type of weapon and the escape and survival rates of assassins to the most popular time of year and location for assassination.

The definitive book on assassination, How to Kill shows that sometimes, one murder can change the world.

Quatrième de couverture :

Assassin, noun: a person who commits murder; especially; one who murders a politically important person either for hire or from fanatical motives

Fact: between 1950 and 2000, over 4,000 assassinations were carried out - including 40 on heads of state.

Methods: exploding telephones, pipe-guns and bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives, cobra-venom darts, a rifle that shoots around corners, a 'piss bomb' (10 cups of boiled urine mixed with nitric acid), exploding clams, an 'infernal machine' (a gun that fires 25 bullets at once), samurai swords, karate chops, poisoned umbrellas and a fuel-laden light aircraft. Sometimes even a regular gun.

Targets: popes, politicians, presidents, prime ministers, pop-stars, spin doctors, judges, businessmen, writers, revolutionaries, actors, royals, generals and dictators.

Secret case files: George Walker Bush, Saddam Hussein, Uday Hussein, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Stalin, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, Medgar Evers, Georgi Markov, Woody Harrelson and the Serbian warlord Arkan.

Coroner's verdict: The definitive book on assassination, How to Kill shows that sometimes, one murder can change the world.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099502461
• ISBN 13: 9780099502463
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448