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ISBN
9781480465190
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
07-01-2014
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Delphinium Books
Auteur(s)
John P. Davidson
The Obedient Assassin
A Novel Based on a True Story
John P. Davidson
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€13,99
A
dark
and
riveting
thriller
that
reimagines
the
life
and
mission
of
the
Spanish
nationalist
enlisted
to
murder
Leon
Trotsky:
Based
on
a
true
chapter
of
world
history
and
ten
years
of
research,
here
is
the
story
of
the
real-life
reluctant
soldier
and
killer,
Ramón
Mercader—the
obedient
assassinRamón
Mercader
was
plucked
from
the
front
of
the
Spanish
Civil
War
by
the
Soviets
and
conscripted
to
murder
the
great
intellectual
Leon
Trotsky,
a
leader
of
the
Bolshevik
Revolution
who
was
exiled
in
the
1920s
for
opposing
Joseph
Stalin.As
Ramón
is
trained
for
the
task
and
assumes
a
new
identity,
he
lives
a
lush
life
in
Paris,
befriending
Frida
Kahlo
and
other
artists
of
the
time.
He
falls
in
love
with
a
left-leaning
Jewish
woman
whom
he
is
ordered
to
seduce
as
a
means
of
getting
at
Trotsky.From
Barcelona
to
Paris
and
New
York
to
Mexico
City,
the
group
controlling
Ramón—including
Ramón’s
mother
and
her
lover—guides
the
assassin
on
the
inevitable
resolution
of
his
grim
task
as
he
must
penetrate
Trotsky’s compound.
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