Blessed Assassination by Robert Gammon (.ePUB)
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Blessed Assassination by Robert Gammon
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Overview: In 1933, during one of the most terrifying periods in history, with the world in the mire of the Great Depression and sleepwalking towards World War II, John, an investigative journalist from The Washington Post, witnesses the “blessed assassination” of the president of Peru.
In the midst of a civil war, international conflicts, hounded by the police and even by his own American embassy, and saving the woman he loves, John risks his life, facing powerful enemies, to uncover a sinister plot with global ramifications that precedes the president’s assassination.
Following considerable research about a country he loves, Robert Gammon’s novel reveals historical events leading up to the president’s assassination, across the street from where Robert lived in Lima.
If you enjoyed Ken Follet’s Century Trilogy or Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa’s Fierce Times or Feast of the Goat, you’ll enjoy Blessed Assassination. The novel, based on true events, transports readers to a different world, to another era. The shocking events of the 1930s may seem distant, but today we are once again experiencing similar crises, autocracies, and populism.
After a boozy night, John is woken up the following morning by his assistant, Pedro, who breaks the news that President Sánchez-Cerro, an army strong-man, has been shot. The president’s life was saved by his friend and adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Gonzalo Vargas, Pedro’s father. And the young would-be assassin turns out to be Pedro’s cousin, who is sentenced to death.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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