Cold Blooded Killings: Hits, Assassinations, and Near Misses That Shook the World

by Charlotte Greig

This book explores the most notorious cases of assassinations in our history, looking in depth at the killers, their motives and the impact the deaths of the victims had on society. She also looks at notable failed attempts on the lives of the famous.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2006

Reviews

[Ard · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is basically a collection of summaries of famous assassionations and a few near-misses. The stories are brief, told in a detached and factual tone and contain some errors here and there in representating known facts. Truth be told, I only read a few chapters and raced through the rest, so my criticisms are based for the most part on the chapters on Kennedy, Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh. I like the subject of this book and people who know very little of the murder cases described may appreciate the documentary-like style of how they are presented here. But I had hoped for a little more depth and didn't find it. This book is basically a very long article of the sort you find after clicking on a link on Facebook. Somewhat entertaining, nothing more.

[Raven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting look on Assassinations and near misses. Some I knew about, and some I didn't.