Terminate with Extreme Prejudice - An Expose of the Assassination Game, its Killers and their Paymasters

A bullet can cost as little as 8 cents. Assassination is the great, untold secret at the heart of the nation state, more common than anyone will admit. Rife during the Cold War, the '8-cent option' is no less favoured today by governments and terrorist groups around the world. Both the United States and Israel have it as a stated aim of their public policy. And while the United Nations condemns it, every permanent member of the UN Security Council has been actively involved in using hired killers. Assassination can bring about seismic shifts in power. Richard Belfield rates the killing of President Sadat, the only Arab leader then to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, with that of Archduke Ferdinand for political significance - a catalyst for the modern, combative form of Islam. Following the CIA manual, Belfield presents a fascinating 'how-to' guide - first cover your tracks and choose an assassin, through the execution itself, getting your cover story straight, the use of patsies and dealing with the fallout. Throughout his gaze never shifts from the horror and hypocrisy at the core of the killer-for-hire business...