The Perfect Kill
21 Laws for Assassins
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Keith Szarabajka
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Robert B. Baer
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What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict - one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been dramatized by literature and politicized by infamous murders throughout history, and for Robert Baer, one of the most accomplished agents to ever work for the CIA, it's a source of endless fascination, speculation, and intrigue.
Over several decades, Baer served as an operative, from Iraq to New Delhi and beyond; notably, his career was the model for the acclaimed movie Syriana. In The Perfect Kill, he takes us on a serpentine adventure through the history of political murder; its connections to, and differences from, the ubiquitous use of drones in state-sponsored killing; his firsthand experience with political executions; and his decades-long cat-and-mouse hunt, across the Middle East and Europe, for the most effective and deadliest assassin of the modern age. A true maverick with an undeniably captivating personal story, Baer pulls back the curtain on the underbelly of world politics and the quiet murderers who operate on the fringe of our society.
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“A best-selling author and former CIA operative chronicles his experiences as an assassin while offering chilling insight into the fine art of political murder... Fascinating reading from an expert.” (Kirkus)
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When New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins hears rumors that an al-Qaeda splinter cell has captured a cache of chemical weapons inside Syria, he knows this is a story he must pursue at all costs. Does the commander of the jihadist faction really have the weapons? If so, who is the intended target? The U.S.? Israel? Or could it be Jordan?
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Looking forward to get part 2 on sale
- By Marie on 03-17-18
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Best of Enemies
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- By: Gus Russo, Eric Dezenhall
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, D.C., intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs.
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Really?
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Secret Sanction
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- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo, and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything. Drummond gets consistently suspicious depositions from all of the Green Berets: Supposedly pursued by Serb soldiers, they left the engagement with wounded Serbs firing at them, and no one can explain the number of deaths.
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I want the rest of the Sean Drummond series!
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Code Name: Johnny Walker
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- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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>In this illuminating and informative memoir, an Iraqi translator who risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle and the Navy SEALs tells his remarkable and inspiring story, offering a refreshing new perspective on the Iraq War. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the local neighborhoods and unable to speak the local languages, they came to rely on one man to guide them and watch their backs. He was a "terp" - an interpreter - with a job so dangerous they couldn't even use his real name.
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Outstanding and real
- By Noel C. Stanhope on 06-05-14
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At age 25, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a 21st-century reporter: cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, and translators.
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Sad story...
- By kathryn on 01-01-09
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The Last Jihad
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Jon Bennett is a top Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor. But nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh...and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.
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Great book ... worth the listening to
- By JZ on 07-27-08
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The Main Enemy
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A masterpiece of espionage history
- By kucherv on 08-21-18
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Empire: The Empire Duet, Part 1
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Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science-fiction and fantasy works. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario: a new American Civil War. The American Empire has grown too fast, the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point, and the war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war.
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Good pace, weak premise
- By Andrea on 01-01-07
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Son of Hamas
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- By: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status...and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader.
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Very insightful look at the underbelly of Hamas.
- By C,L, Richey on 05-05-14
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In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting—from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17—to understand the true extent of Putin's long war.
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Nothing new. Author has zero credibility
- By MICHAEL W. SHOEMAKER on 12-08-22
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Black Ops
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Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. Black Ops is the story of Ric’s legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism.
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Impressive and Inspiring!
- By medardo on 03-12-22
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- Kyle Burkholder
- 04-12-17
Good, a little bit sporadic though
It was a great look into political homicide. I've never even thought about it political homicide on a serious level. But this book was very intriguing. I must say though, it was really sporadic and a little hard to follow at times. Wish he would've tried to make it more chronological.
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- Trkmec
- 08-27-18
I found it interesting
I have found interesting all of Bob Baer’s books ! This kept my attention
And curiousness about the topic and times for the entire book.
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- Paul Frew
- 11-03-15
Interesting
Really enjoyed this unusual topic, a good blend of history, politics and personal experiences. I'm glad I listened to it.
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- Jeff D.
- 10-08-21
Not terrible but have heard better
The story seems to go all over the place and then randomly circles back to the main antagonist. Very ADHD.
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- Foxhound
- 05-23-15
great way to narrate
narrator was awesome. he made the author sound like the gruff man that wrote all those stories. the way this was organized into 21 tips was brilliant. weaving the story throughout was the best way to tell. so many ex-cia stories are boring retellings. this one stands out head & shoulders!
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- Bill Jackson
- 03-29-16
There are Bad Guys Everywhere
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I found the stories about Lebanon interesting.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Ho hum.
Any additional comments?
The story line jumps around in time and place from the 1980's to 2010 mostly in the middle east, but some of Europe as well without much continuity. The book is organized more as a collection of short stories about various assassins and their targets.
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- supermann
- 12-23-15
Decent
Interesting book. Narrators voice was a bit rough. And the author tries to hard to sound educated with words that don't quite fit the telling, but giving the way he presents his mom, he comes by it honest. But overall was a good book and glad I listened to it
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- Kim
- 12-19-14
filled with very witty comments
I thought there were one liners in here that make the read worth the time spent wading through material that was vague for security reasons. Baer's main point ...that hackers and drone operators should not be the core method of intelligence and defense is well explicated.
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- David W.
- 12-04-18
The Mind of a Sociopath...
This guy really is a killer, only a murderer wraps himself in the blanket of intellectual assassination.
Truly a peek into the mind of the guy who "comes at night." Scary....
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- oldranger53
- 11-09-20
Informative Description of Obscure History
Loved it.
There is a great deal of insight, and somewhat detailed expertise told within the story line of this book.
I've listened to it completely at least three times. There is too much to absorb for just one reading.
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