Alex Goodall
Shooting Stars
Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865–1981
By Michael Newton
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Poor, dull Switzerland! The historic refuge of political conspirators and fleeing assassins across the years, it has also been, as Michael Newton points out in his sweeping new history of assassination, a constant target of abuse from the outlaws who found safety behind its borders. For all its hospitality, the land of cuckoo clocks offered little to the political killer: what they craved was not safety but a piece of the action.
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