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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.
- Sales Rank: #2196362 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x 1.10" w x 5.08" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
Review
"Fascinating and good fun. He clearly knows his subject" Daily Sport "Fascinating" The First Post "How to Kill is no dry sociology of political murder. It is a history of the late twentieth century punctuated by gunshots...[an] exciting account" Sunday Telegraph, Seven "A fascinatingly grim read" Shortlist
About the Author
Kris Hollington is a freelance investigative journalist living and working in London. He cut his teeth writing for a European news agency (International City Magazines) based in Luxembourg. Kris also hosted a daily lunchtime radio show on Radio Luxembourg for one year. Since returning to London, he has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Voice, BBC Radio 4's File on 4 and BBC1's Panorama. He is currently co-producing a crime drama-documentary for Channel 4.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Assassinology
By Bo Østergaard Jepsen
Kris Hollington certainly found a great title for his book on assassins in the later half of the 20th century, "How to Kill". Between the colourful and suggestive covers we find accounts of a series of assassinations performed in the latter half of the last century, mainly of heads of state and important politicians, including many famous victims as well as hitmen. Every chapter represents a different case and is chronologically sorted. It seems quite well researched and, according to the author anyway, much information has never been given to the public before. Which is all good.
Sadly, however, there are some minor caveats. Firstly the book reads, as another reviewer has pointed out, as a novel. The author, in an attempt to spice things up a bit no doubt, makes claims to seemingly know what people think and makes use of dramatic storytelling techniques, which, in a factual work just doesn't belong. It subtracts rather than adds. Also it reads as a long description of selected assassinations within the last 50 or 60 years, which I guess is alright, but it would have been nice with a bit more history, cases from before the 20th century. What about Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Rasputin? It would also be nice with a more in depth discussion about the motivation behind different assassinations and the psychology of assassins. There is an appendix with different data about assassins in the book, which is fun and nice, but it would have been much welcomed with a look at the meaning of this data. It tells many assassination stories, but very little about assassinations, if you know what I'm getting at.
There are, of course, many a thing one didn't know before reading this book, and it is fun to read, if for nothing else, then just the trivia knowledge. It is however greatly flawed and can therefore only warrant a 3 star rating.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
About Another HTK Book...
By Lee Scott
Early in Mr. Hollington's book he refers to another tomb also titled HOW TO KILL by John Minnery. He states this book was produced by the CIA to train assassins. Well, not really, it was geared more toward the Walter Mitty type, as were all of Paladin Press' books. The HOW TO KILL 'series' (there were 6 volumes in all) was written by a Canadian locksmith named John Minnery. Paladin later combined all the volumes into one large volume titled KILL WITHOUT JOY by John Minnery.
If you decide to track down a copy of Mr. Minnery's book over at [...] or maybe even right here on Amazon, you will become a walking, talking, real life Terminator...I'm not kidding. Everything from some really fantastic ways to kill with your hands, to homemade untraceable firearms (MANY designs) to rigging some ones car to explode or clamping a bear trap over their head from behind. The poison umbrella is fully illustrated with blueprints, as are homemade bombs, ingenious ways to rig knives onto your arms to obliterate a target on the spot. Dozens and dozens of killing methods. Throwing a bucket full of gasoline and dishwashing detergent (homemade napalm) while pretending to be a window washer, then annihilating the poor dummy with a BBQ igniter, or was it flare gun?
I couldn't begin to do the original HOW TO KILL BOOK book justice. While you're at it you might as well have Netflix send over a copy of THE MECHANIC with Charles Bronson. The book and movie really tie the murderous atmosphere. It's all good clean fun of course...100% pure fiction, not meant to be taken seriously. And for the nervous Nelly's out there, kILL WITHOUT JOY by John Minnery currently sells for around $1000 per volume. I have four copies, two still shrink wrapped and I'm sorry to say, NOT for sale. It's a great book for RPG.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Eye opening
By Zachary P. Schneider
It is a great look into the truth of politics and world history. I learned a ton reading this book, since all of my friends have been passing it around.
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