Idgie Says:
This book is great for the political history/spy novel buff. Based off of true life occurrences and given the fascinating twist of fictional characters and plot lines, along with years of research by the author to dig into the story, this novel takes a real life event and bring it to you with more pizazz and zing then a dry toast documentary. Filled with intrigue and espionage - both imagined and real.
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The Obedient Assassin
This book is great for the political history/spy novel buff. Based off of true life occurrences and given the fascinating twist of fictional characters and plot lines, along with years of research by the author to dig into the story, this novel takes a real life event and bring it to you with more pizazz and zing then a dry toast documentary. Filled with intrigue and espionage - both imagined and real.
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The Obedient Assassin
A Novel Based on a True Story
John P. Davidson
Delphinium/HarperCollins
February 4, 2014
Book Description:
WAS LEON TROTSKY’S MURDERER A HERO OF THE PEOPLE OR A COLD-BLOODED ASSASSIN?
Ramón
Mercader seemed to have everything—a lush life in Paris, evenings with
Frida Kahlo and other artists, and the love of a beautiful woman who
shared his leftist ideals—so why
did he carry out the murder of Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik
Revolution?
Because this bourgeois life was a façade constructed by his mother and her lover, both Soviet agents loyal to Stalin.
Author and journalist John P. Davidson follows the twisted and melancholy path to assassination in
THE OBEDIENT ASSASSIN: A Novel Based on a True Story (Delphinium
Books/distributed by HarperCollins; February 2014). Based on 10 years of
meticulous research, Davidson recreates the story of a man at a
crossroads of modern history.
Mercader
was recruited from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and his
newly assumed identity of a Belgian aristocrat allowed him to insinuate
himself with the exiled Trotsky’s
circle in Europe. When he fell for the Jewish woman he was ordered to
seduce to get closer to Trotsky, his obedience began to weaken and his
conscience threatened to betray him.
THE OBEDIENT ASSASSIN
leads the reader through Spain, France and New York, and finally to
Mexico, where Mercader contacts Kahlo and Diego
Rivera, who had offered Trotsky and his wife refuge in one of their
gated homes. With the atmosphere and detail of the memorable spy novels
and movies set in the mid-20th
Century, this novel captures the drama of one of the most tumultuous
times in world history—and one of its most controversial events.
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