Showing results for "Assassin" in Literature & Fiction

Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, where family is everything and danger lurks around every corner. Assassins Anonymous isn't just a weekly recovery meeting for reformed killers—it's also a family. When Valencia receives troubling news that her brother has gone missing, she wants rush off to...

"Ach, leck mich doch an meiner Borke, du Bürokrat!" Penta arbeitet als Beamter in der geheimen Todesgilde und verwaltet die Aufträge seiner Assassinen. Stets an seiner Seite: Wurzel. Ein töpflich und geistig inkontinenter Bonsai, der Penta durch seine unbedachten Äußerungen immer wieder in Bedrängnis bringt. Eines Tages übernimmt Penta die Urlaubsvertretung für einen Kollegen und damit auch die Betreuung des berühmten Gentleman-Assassinen. Das Schicksal nimmt seinen Lauf, als dieser Assassine beauftragt wird, die junge Erbin Tonia Fill umzubringen.

“I wish he was dead!” Have you ever had that wicked thought? If not, then you’ve never met the contemptible Mike DiMarco, a man that gets his solitary pleasure from wrecking lives. Hypothetically, if DiMarco ruined your life and left you penniless, beaten, and broken, could you kill him? Well, you’re off the hook because Sturgis will do it for you - or try. Your mission now becomes that of a cheering supporter as you hear about the efforts of a lovable, clumsy man as he humorously, yet doggedly, discovers the ins and outs of getting even as an entry-level assassin.

In the tiny European country of Tantalia, Princess Niobe is being groomed to ascend to the throne. What her people don’t know is that from the age of sixteen, the Princess has been trained by her martial arts instructor, Gethan, to kill the businessman responsible for her parent’s deaths. Once Queen, she will have ‘sovereign immunity’ and be free to kill without the risk of arrest.

Une comédie déjantée, où l’inattendu rencontre l’humour à chaque page! Je m'appelle Damien Hachett : 34 ans, légiste, catapulté médecin chef à l'Institut Médico-Judiciaire. Tard le soir, entre deux macchabées carbonisés ou livrés coupés en morceaux dans un joli paquet cadeau, j'écris des bouquins. Jusqu'à ce qu'une nuit, mon plus vieux lecteur atterrisse sur ma table d'autopsie. Et maintenant... que les ennuis commencent !

COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.

Guy believed he’d found the answer to overcoming that bleak dysfunctional fatalism they all felt. Bottling up emotions isn’t good, he reasoned. So, he would do what ordinary people did and he would set up an emotional support group. It was only when the newest member joined the group that things started to happen. The tables were turning and the assassins found themselves being targeted. This wasn’t good, but at least it gave an opportunity to get away from the hotel that served the worst tea imaginable.

Après trente ans de prison, Johan Andersson, alias Dédé le Meurtrier, est enfin libre. Mais ses vieux démons le rattrapent vite : il s'associe à Per Persson, réceptionniste sans le sou, et à Johanna Kjellander, pasteur défroqué, pour monter une agence de châtiments corporels. Des criminels ont besoin d'un homme de main ? Dédé accourt ! Per et Johanna, eux, amassent les billets. Alors, le jour où Dédé découvre la Bible et renonce à la violence, ses deux acolytes décident de prendre les choses en main et de le détourner du droit chemin.