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Assassin: A Terrifying True Story
'We took some prisoners and tied them up on the airstrip and left them out in the sun to die. Then we tied some up, put them in a DC3 and pushed them out of the door.'
This is the terrifying true story of international assassin Carlos Evertsz as he ricocheted between the high life in London, Madrid and the island paradise of the Dominican Republic – and some of the world's most horrific jails.
It is the complete dossier of an agent licensed to kill and who doesn't hesitate to unflinchingly state his own record of shocking atrocities. Written by the journalist who knew him best – even ending up on the assassin's hit list a few times himself – the story is as gripping as it is unbelievable.
Also part of Evertsz's weird world is Dr Manuel Sosa, a demonic intelligence chief with a taste for orgies, torture, blackmail, voodoo and murder. It's a scene you will find stranger than fiction - but remember as you read, it is all true.
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This is the terrifying true story of international assassin Carlos Evertsz as he ricocheted between the high life in London, Madrid and the island paradise of the Dominican Republic – and some of the world's most horrific jails.
It is the complete dossier of an agent licensed to kill and who doesn't hesitate to unflinchingly state his own record of shocking atrocities. Written by the journalist who knew him best – even ending up on the assassin's hit list a few times himself – the story is as gripping as it is unbelievable.
Also part of Evertsz's weird world is Dr Manuel Sosa, a demonic intelligence chief with a taste for orgies, torture, blackmail, voodoo and murder. It's a scene you will find stranger than fiction - but remember as you read, it is all true.
http://apostrophebooks.com/books/assa...
108 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 28, 2013
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About the author
Christopher Robbins
75 books28 followersChristopher Robbins began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen when he started writing jazz criticism for the Daily Telegraph. Since then he has written for numerous newspapers and magazines in Britain, Europe and the USA.
The Empress of Ireland won the Saga Award for wit, along with exceptional critical acclaim. In Search of Kazakhstan was short-listed for the Authors’ Club Best Travel Book Award 2008 in the UK and (under the title Apples Are From Kazakhstan) for the Best Travel Books of 2008 in the US. Air America, a worldwide bestseller when it was originally published, was made into a film starring Mel Gibson.
The Empress of Ireland won the Saga Award for wit, along with exceptional critical acclaim. In Search of Kazakhstan was short-listed for the Authors’ Club Best Travel Book Award 2008 in the UK and (under the title Apples Are From Kazakhstan) for the Best Travel Books of 2008 in the US. Air America, a worldwide bestseller when it was originally published, was made into a film starring Mel Gibson.
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September 24, 2014
I'm giving this a generous 2stars ....
The title says it all TERRIFYING TRUE STORY..
and terrifying it is..
So vile the main character is numb to how bad he really is...
Idk what it is about this book... No matter how I tried I could not get into it.. I LOVE BIOS (espicaliy ones that invoke juicy takes of action,fast lives, and villains as the main guys in the story's..) I know it was a story told to the author... But it was very confusing and somewhat distasteful... The main character was just so vile that I had heard enough after a few chapters, he told things HORENDOUS THINGS like he was telling the author the day was gonna be windy..
It's people like this that give Hispanics the bad rap that hard working people like my Abuela and Abuelo (MiMi and PaPa, Grandparents) have tried to overcome that stereotype in the U.S. it's sad really not all of us are Al Pacino in Scarface, Or Pablo Escobar
Just very hard to swallow.. I think I'll go back to the other books I have in line because I doubt I can finish the last 3 chapters....(IT'S THAT BAD..)
Ok so I finished it....
Same view...
Only I am sad and regret I had bought this E-Book glorifying these heinous deeds
Sorry indeed...
The title says it all TERRIFYING TRUE STORY..
and terrifying it is..
So vile the main character is numb to how bad he really is...
Idk what it is about this book... No matter how I tried I could not get into it.. I LOVE BIOS (espicaliy ones that invoke juicy takes of action,fast lives, and villains as the main guys in the story's..) I know it was a story told to the author... But it was very confusing and somewhat distasteful... The main character was just so vile that I had heard enough after a few chapters, he told things HORENDOUS THINGS like he was telling the author the day was gonna be windy..
It's people like this that give Hispanics the bad rap that hard working people like my Abuela and Abuelo (MiMi and PaPa, Grandparents) have tried to overcome that stereotype in the U.S. it's sad really not all of us are Al Pacino in Scarface, Or Pablo Escobar
Just very hard to swallow.. I think I'll go back to the other books I have in line because I doubt I can finish the last 3 chapters....(IT'S THAT BAD..)
Ok so I finished it....
Same view...
Only I am sad and regret I had bought this E-Book glorifying these heinous deeds
Sorry indeed...
March 20, 2022
Well this was surprising book on so many levels.
First surprise to me was that book was not entirely about Carlos Everstz (weirdest surname I ever came across). While story does start with Carlos entering the life of the author (as author himself says, life is sometimes weirder than fiction) and we follow his testimony about death squad he was member of in Dominican Republic, story very soon veers off in the direction of Caribbean islands and bloody ways of politics in Dominican Republic. While Carlos slowly describes Trujillo's bloody methods and shadowy generals and colonels from police and army and their Cuban mercenaries real meat of the book comes with testimony of one Miguel Perez who contacts the author after Carlos' testimony gets published in author's newspapers. This was surprise number two.
And man, what a can of worms. Perez, this time bureaucrat in the Dominican Republic's deadly secret service (at least one of them, one that was involved in the worst terror actions after nightfall, led and organized by Bond villain under name Dr. Sosa) finally breaks and decides to send the author information on the Dominican Republic's dirty war against opposition, dirty war executed and led by the government (even when government played i-dont-know game) through combination of rivaling security agencies. Worst thing is that US were implicated in the plethora of direct and false flag attacks executed by Dr Sosa's outfit with the goal of discrediting and eliminating communist and other leftist parties - actions they saw as necessary to safeguard and entrench their presence in the area. Scenes of what was happening (I truly hope was is the correct word) to witnesses or people asking for their missing family members are sick to the core. Ways these death squads operated throughout the world while seeking opposition are horrendous.
Executions on Haitians were the most perverse action I ever read about.
And one just has to consider that perpetrators managed to find the safe-heaven in Europe and live their lives in peace is truly surprising. You know you read about say Apartheid era death squads like Vlakplaas death squads and you find information that they were at least arrested or denied access to other parts of the world and for them conflict was all about race. Here, it was Dominicans executing most horrendous terrorist actions againsttheir own people, all in the name of anti communism actions. Terrible.
Story after a while goes back to Carlos and his fate in the Spanish prison where he is held because of various cons he ran while cruising the Europe (absolutely no-one was persecuting him for death squad's actions). Author manages to give us a ..... lets call it a profile of this type of human being, a psychopath, completely devoid of any empathy and able to blend into the environment like a chameleon, even establish kind-a-emotional relation (Carlos had many women and kids with them, and they always saw them as a genuine good person).
Very good book. Highly disturbing book. Shows that you do not need hundreds of pages to tell a story about the world that surrounds us.
Recommended.
First surprise to me was that book was not entirely about Carlos Everstz (weirdest surname I ever came across). While story does start with Carlos entering the life of the author (as author himself says, life is sometimes weirder than fiction) and we follow his testimony about death squad he was member of in Dominican Republic, story very soon veers off in the direction of Caribbean islands and bloody ways of politics in Dominican Republic. While Carlos slowly describes Trujillo's bloody methods and shadowy generals and colonels from police and army and their Cuban mercenaries real meat of the book comes with testimony of one Miguel Perez who contacts the author after Carlos' testimony gets published in author's newspapers. This was surprise number two.
And man, what a can of worms. Perez, this time bureaucrat in the Dominican Republic's deadly secret service (at least one of them, one that was involved in the worst terror actions after nightfall, led and organized by Bond villain under name Dr. Sosa) finally breaks and decides to send the author information on the Dominican Republic's dirty war against opposition, dirty war executed and led by the government (even when government played i-dont-know game) through combination of rivaling security agencies. Worst thing is that US were implicated in the plethora of direct and false flag attacks executed by Dr Sosa's outfit with the goal of discrediting and eliminating communist and other leftist parties - actions they saw as necessary to safeguard and entrench their presence in the area. Scenes of what was happening (I truly hope was is the correct word) to witnesses or people asking for their missing family members are sick to the core. Ways these death squads operated throughout the world while seeking opposition are horrendous.
Executions on Haitians were the most perverse action I ever read about.
And one just has to consider that perpetrators managed to find the safe-heaven in Europe and live their lives in peace is truly surprising. You know you read about say Apartheid era death squads like Vlakplaas death squads and you find information that they were at least arrested or denied access to other parts of the world and for them conflict was all about race. Here, it was Dominicans executing most horrendous terrorist actions againsttheir own people, all in the name of anti communism actions. Terrible.
Story after a while goes back to Carlos and his fate in the Spanish prison where he is held because of various cons he ran while cruising the Europe (absolutely no-one was persecuting him for death squad's actions). Author manages to give us a ..... lets call it a profile of this type of human being, a psychopath, completely devoid of any empathy and able to blend into the environment like a chameleon, even establish kind-a-emotional relation (Carlos had many women and kids with them, and they always saw them as a genuine good person).
Very good book. Highly disturbing book. Shows that you do not need hundreds of pages to tell a story about the world that surrounds us.
Recommended.
June 3, 2019
I gave up in the end.
While it seems like a good subject. The book diverts to several side stories.
It just didn’t hold my attention which is a shame as I live reading true accounts of people’s lives.
While it seems like a good subject. The book diverts to several side stories.
It just didn’t hold my attention which is a shame as I live reading true accounts of people’s lives.
May 26, 2016
Somewhat tedious but very interesting and informative
Robbins gives an interesting insight into assassin Carlos Evertz as told to him by Evertz in personal interviews. Only a portion of the book is devoted to Evertz, however. The latter portion concerns information gained from Miguel Perez who reveals inside information about the corruption of government officials in the Dominican Republic.
There are more than ten errors (but less than twenty) in this book.
Robbins gives an interesting insight into assassin Carlos Evertz as told to him by Evertz in personal interviews. Only a portion of the book is devoted to Evertz, however. The latter portion concerns information gained from Miguel Perez who reveals inside information about the corruption of government officials in the Dominican Republic.
There are more than ten errors (but less than twenty) in this book.
January 19, 2015
I've stumbled apon this book by mistake and it was worth the read. The story revolves around Carlos, a Dominican Intelligence Officer who turns out to be an assassin, and his relation with the author. Beside, you are still able to see how the Inteligence Agencies operated back then and might still operate. If the story is indeed true, then we live in a really fucked up world.
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