Assassin
Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mighty has long fascinated artists and rebels but only rarely has it been studied in a scholarly manner. In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The result is an incisive study of that enigmatic figure, the revolutionary killer.\ As Bell...
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In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The result is an incisive study of that enigmatic figure, the revolutionary killer. As Bell makes clear, the motives of the actors, and effectiveness of assassination, vary widely across time and place. Assassination in many parts of the world has not only been a normal political act, rational, explicable, but also often effective, in some cases taking fewer lives in the transfer of power than an election. Likewise, there have been all kinds of assassins—personal, psychopathic, professional, ranging from lonely failures trying to make their mark to authorized agents of the state.
Prologue : "I've been stabbed!" : the assassination of Henry IV of France5Pt. IMurder of the mighty19Ch. 1Killing no murder21Ch. 2Killing as murder49Ch. 3Killing as politics : war and order, murderous legitimacies88Ch. 4Killing by the state authorized murder121Ch. 5Killing as politics : the rebels149Intermezzo I179Pt. IITo strike at the state : patterns of political murder189Intermezzo II241Pt. IIIThe theory and practice of revolutionary assassination251Ch. 1Ogro, Moro, Ewart-Biggs, and Schleyer : murder in the streets of Europe253Ch. 2The past as prologue291
