The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2 - Softcover

Meltzer, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444764543 ISBN 13: 9781444764543

Publisher: Hodder Paperback, 2013

Synopsis

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States.Four have been successful.But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, D.C. who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they are wrong?Beecher is about to discover the that during the course of a hundred years, all four assassins were secretly working together. What was their purpose? For whom do they really work? And why are they planning to kill the current President?Beecher's about to find out. And most terrifyingly, he's about to come face-to-face with the fifth assassin.

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Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2013: I consider myself a cagey reader, the literary equivalent of a wizened salmon, suspicious of fakery, wary of sloppy plotting and cliché, and ready to bail if I’m not lured in by page 50. So when Meltzer got his hooks in me by the end of page three, and never stopped reeling me in, I have to say I was impressed. I was also impressed that the hero of The Fifth Assassin (first introduced in The Inner Circle) isn’t a misanthrope cop or hard-drinking PI but a brainy archivist at the National Archives. Beecher White is a glorified librarian, for god's sake. But with a dash of Sherlock Holmes and a hint of Indiana Jones, White is a refreshingly quirky pursuer of justice, and his hunt for a would-be assassin—which takes us through history and through the secret spaces around Washington, DC—makes for a thrilling read, as well as a nice reminder that a page-turner can be smart, deeply researched, and just plain fun. --Neal Thompson

About the Author

Brad Meltzer is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers THE INNER CIRCLE and THE BOOK OF FATE, and six other bestselling thrillers. His first nonfiction work, Heroes for My Son, was also a New York Times bestseller. He is also the host of the History Channel series Brad Meltzer's Decoded, the Eisner Award-winning writer of the graphic novel Justice League of America, and one of the cocreators of the TV show Jack & Bobby. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida. But to see what really matters, please go to www.BradMeltzer.com. You can also see what he's doing right now at facebook.com/bradmeltzer and twitter.com/bradmeltzer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Paperback
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444764543
• ISBN 13: 9781444764543
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 436