A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE WORLD'S ASSASSINS

Hardback. A comprehensive guide and absorbing chronicle of some of the most influential crimes in history. Until this book's publication, there had been no single source for the life stories of assassins in various eras and cultures: the infamous ones and the surprisingly forgotten, the ideologues and the zealots, the sociopaths and the mercenary killers. This book fills the gap. It is much more than a ready reference, and has no political subtext. It is a collection of biographical stories, a few well-known but most obscure, dealing with individual assassins from the ancient world to the present day. With an Index of Victims. 391pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.