The Assassination Bureau, Ltd
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780783803494 (0783803494)
Publish date: December 1st 1998
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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...