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Edgar award-winning writer of the favorite historical novels A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss showcases his amazing versatility with this brilliant new tale of modern-day suspense: a literary thriller set in Florida, where killing is a matter of conscience.
No some may be more surprised than Lem Altick when as it happens he’s actually good at peddling encyclopedias door to door. He hates the predatory world of sales, but he needs the amount of money to cover college. Then things go horribly wrong. In a very sweltering trailer in rural Florida, some whom Lem has spent hours pitching is shot dead before his eyes, and the unassuming son is suddenly pulled into the dark world of conspiracy and murder. Not only murder: assassination– or so says the killer, the mysterious and strangely charismatic Melford Kean, who have struck without remorse and with remarkable good cheer. However the self-styled ethical assassin hadn’t planned on a witness, therefore he makes Lem a deal: Stay quiet and you will see no problems. Go directly to the police and take the fall.
Before Lem can decide, he's drawn against his will into the realm of the assassin, a post-Marxist intellectual with whom he forms an unlikely (as well as perhaps unwise) friendship. The ethical assassin could be a enchanting sociopath, eco-activist, or vigilante for communal justice. To unravel the mystery and save himself, Lem must descend deep into a bizarre world he never knew existed, in which a group of desperate–and genuinely deranged–schemers have hatched a plan that will more than likely keep Lem from leaving town alive.
David Liss skillfully interweaves a gallery of eccentric characters with a multilayered plot seen as a 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.
