Felipe Arraño’s Reviews > Age of Assassins > Status Update

When Obama was President of the Us, an assassination attempt would have surprised few; nonetheless, when a blow did come, it came - of course - entirely unexpectedly (p. 583). The author took 9 years to write the book (p. 583). Three kinds of assassins: the mads who can be pitied; the ones who kill for a romantic dream; and those who chose assassination to redress an injustice elsewhere (p. 587).