The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins

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 acc...