Word: assassine
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...cast is unmanageably large. Some 60 people have to be present for the trial to proceed. Customarily present are Judge Samuel Conti, 58, born and educated in California, reputed to be hard on drug-law violators. He has tried attempted Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore and Black Panther David Hilliard. Last February, 4½ months into the Hell's Angels affair, the judge collapsed from exhaustion. Court was recessed as he rested up for two weeks. The prosecution's "Hell's Angels Task Force" sits at a center table: four lawyers and a shifting group of federal...
...They Call Me Assassin, Tatum with Kushner
Evil, however, can be both magnificent and foul. The groveling degradation of the hired assassin Bosola counterbalances the Cardinal's satanic grandeur. Brian Sands, as the slimy Bosola, is another thoroughly loathsome villain. Half-naked, he revels in his own corruption and derides the courtiers who hide their inward decay with fine clothes and a gracious manner. He listens at keyholes, squirming on the floor as he does, and obtains the evidence of her clandestine marriage that dooms the hapless Duchess. Sands mimes better than anyone else in the cast. Referred to more than once as a serpent, he slithers...
...service was held to honor El Salvador's most outspoken champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently...
...elegant young Parisienne who had been the hit man's sometime mistress. She provides Guthrie with a psychological profile of the killer and some cryptic notes he has left in the safe of her boutique. The author polishes plots and plans until they shine. Guthrie follows the assassin's trail to Zurich. There he learns that Grand Slam is controlled by a pillar of the Swiss banking establishmenta Soviet spy for 40 years. Surprise follows revelation, and it detracts nothing from the novel to note that Sadat survives the savage denouement at the Zurich clinic...