The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
The Assassination Bureau kills people for money. It also has a social conscience. Determined to eliminate only society's enemies, its chief, Ivan Dragomiloff, decides whether or not each murder is "justified." Unfinished when Jack London died, this novel has been completed by Robert L. Fish.
The Assassination Bureau kills people for money. It also has a social conscience. Determined to eliminate only society's enemies, its chief, Ivan Dragomiloff, decides whether or not each murder is "justified." Unfinished when Jack London died, this novel has been completed by Robert L. Fish.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140186772 (0140186778)
ASIN: 140186778
Publish date: October 1st 1994
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 165
Edition language: English
Jack London died before he finished writing The Assasination Bureau. He had scribbled notes that were interesting and horrifying (but good) about how he'd like it to end... like birds breaking their wings against boats, dead sharks beating hearts in the hands of fishermen, and an Irish Terrier that...
“You know it is our rule never to fill an order until we are satisfied that it is socially justifiable,” Dragomiloff observed quietly. The Assassination Bureau is an organisation hired killers managed by the enigmatic Dragomiloff, but they do not just kill anyone for money. Oh, no. Their credo is ...
Jack London's unfinished novel, finished by another. The premise is just fabulous; the leader of a gang of assassins-for-hire is hired to have himself assassinated by his own employees...chaos ensues, along with much philosphising and humour.The moral enigma at the centre of the story is (weirdly) r...
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