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Title	:	The Ethical Assassin
Author	:	David Liss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2007 by Ballantine Books (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Crime. Mystery Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Edgar award-winning author of the popular historical novels A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss showcases his amazing versatility with this brilliant new tale of contemporary suspense: a literary thriller set in Florida, where killing is a matter of conscience.

No one is more surprised than Lem Altick when it turns out he’s actually good at peddling encyclopedias door to door. He hates the predatory world of sales, but he needs the money to pay for college. Then things go horribly wrong. In a sweltering trailer in rural Florida, a couple whom Lem has spent hours pitching is shot dead before his eyes, and the unassuming young man is suddenly pulled into the dark world of conspiracy and murder. Not just murder: assassination– or so claims the killer, the mysterious and strangely charismatic Melford Kean, who has struck without remorse and with remarkable good cheer. But the self-styled ethical assassin hadn’t planned on a witness, and so he makes Lem a deal: Stay quiet and there will be no problems. Go to the police and take the fall.

Before Lem can decide, he is drawn against his will into the realm of the assassin, a post-Marxist intellectual with whom he forms an unlikely (and perhaps unwise) friendship. The ethical assassin could be a charming sociopath, eco-activist, or vigilante for social justice. To unravel the mystery and save himself, Lem must descend deep into a bizarre world he never knew existed, where a group of desperate–and genuinely deranged–schemers have hatched a plan that will very likely keep Lem from leaving town alive.

David Liss skillfully interweaves a gallery of eccentric characters with a multilayered plot characterized by its unpredictable twists and turns. The Ethical Assassin is a brilliant, darkly comic novel that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.


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Original Title:	The Ethical Assassin
ISBN:	0812974549 (ISBN13: 9780812974546)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Florida(United States)

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Set in the 1980's, Lem Altick has just graduated high school and desires nothing more than to escape the cultural vaccum that is Florida by going to college at Columbia. That Lem is actually a nice guy is pretty surprising given the hand that life has dealt him so far: a deadbeat dad who stopped calling ages ago, a mother so zoned out on pills that she naps all day and only awakens to prepare meals and clean house, and a verbally abusive step-father who has reneged on his promise to help Lem pay

I read this so I could say that I sometimes read fiction. This book is about someone that kills animal exploiters and meth dealers. The book was an easy read and kept me reading (Which isn't too hard- I mean I usually curl up with political theory) but I felt like it took too long to get going. The character are great. I don't know, I can't really judge fiction. It amused me but was slow going- that's why it only gets 3 stars, I would give it 3.5 if possible

To make money for college, Lem Altick gets involved with a drug ring under the umbrella of a encyclopedia sales scheme. This book would translate well into a movie....pulp crime all the way. Great writing; you can almost see the main character growing up in a two day period. To stay alive he has to stay one step ahead of:-2 crooked cops-1 half of a Siamese twin-A encyclopedia pyramid sales team-Residents at a trailer park-A Don Johnson styled crime boss-a love interest-and a violent animal

Well, this is definitely one of the best books I read ! I got totally absorbed by the story, it was like i was part of that world, sharing all lem's feelings. I liked mostly melford's character (I think I developed some kind of crush on him too lol). His ethics, the way he sees ideology, and the world, I even got encouraged to start being vegetarian. His character was strongly built that it absolutely leaves the reader to wonder and think. Reading this novel demanded a mental effort, it made me

The parts of this book that are clearly about me, skinny Jewish kid who can't help mouthing off to people far tougher than he is, while he's selling encyclopedias in the burning hot summer to make money for college, and wondering when he'll lose his virginity, will find, like I did, that the central character is based on them. The entry of the title character,"The Ethical Assassin" ads a wondrous weirdly existential double toasted-twist to the whole story but, you might wind up wishing the guy

I was pretty intrigued at the idea of this book--- a mystery novel centered around an animal rights assassin. I have to admit that the book was written in a very readable style--- I finished it in two days. Although apparently I was rapt enough to speed read it so I could find out what happens, I was nonplussed by the political content. Perhaps I shouldn't have been. An award-winning novelists writes a book for a mainstream fiction audience--- I can't expect it to be written for me. That being

David Liss has a nose for history. He can smell it hundreds of years away. His debut, A Conspiracy of Paper , and its sequel, A Spectacle of Corruption , reeked of gritty 18th-century London. The Coffee Trader captured the scent of unwashed whores along with the best part of waking up in 17th-century Amsterdam. Now, for the first time, Liss has written a contemporary novel, The Ethical Assassin , set in Florida, but his olfactory sense is as acute as ever. "A putrid miasma whirled and eddied