Divine Assassin

by Bob Reiss

After his fiance is murdered by Libyan terrorists, Tim Currie, an ex-American hostage of Iran teams up with John Zarek, his former cell mate in Iran, to assassinate Libyan Head of State Muammar al-Qadaffi

312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1985

About the author

Bob Reiss (born 1951) is an American author of nonfiction and fiction books. Reiss, who also writes under the pen-names of Scott Canterbury, Ethan Black, and James Abel, has written more than a dozen books, including Purgatory Road, a murder mystery set in Antarctica, The Road to Extrema, a study of the destruction of Brazilian rain forests, and The Coming Storm, which focuses on global warming and catastrophic weather. Many of his books and articles are based on his travels to Hong Kong, Somalia, South Africa, Antarctica, and other locations around the world.

As the writer Ethan Black, Reiss has penned a series featuring Conrad Voort, a New York City police detective.

Reviews

[Lisa Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent thriller about an American whose girlfriend is killed as the result of a terrorist attack in Washington D.C. With the police and the intelligence community unwilling to help, he takes it upon himself to make his way to Libya and try to assassinate Col. Muammar Gaddafi. (Needless to say, this book was written long before the events of 2011.) It's an entertaining thriller, even if certain plot developments require more than a little suspension of disbelief.

[Stephen Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oddly prescient of what happened in Libya, years before it did.