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Assassination! July 14
Contributor(s): Abro, Ben (Author), Le Sueur, James D. (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0803259395     ISBN-13: 9780803259393
Publisher: Bison Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.06  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2001
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Annotation: July 14. One of Europe's most sinister terrorist organizations hatches a brilliant plan to assassinate the feared and powerful leader of France, President Charles de Gaulle. Max Palk, an extraordinarily talented British secret agent, is summoned to Paris to hunt down the assassins before it is too late. Ensnared in a terrifying web of doublecross and death, Palk races against the clock to outmaneuver, outshoot, and outthink his increasingly desperate foes.


A decade before "The Day of the Jackal" appeared, Ben Abro's "Assassination! July 14" became an international sensation, thanks to its sizzling plot, an ingenious, intellectual hero, and a realistic depiction of France's volatile political scene in the 1960s. In fact, the novel proved too real, provoking outrage and a lawsuit that shut down its publication. For the first time in decades, this gripping, underground thriller is again widely available. The equally riveting story behind the novel and the controversy it spawned are carefully explained in an informative essay by James D. Le Sueur. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, court transcripts, and recent evidence and scholarship, Le Sueur examines how an item of popular culture could have had such national and international repercussions.

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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 00064778
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.02" W x 9.04" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
 
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July 14. One of Europe's most sinister terrorist organizations hatches a brilliant plan to assassinate the feared and powerful leader of France, President Charles de Gaulle. Max Palk, an extraordinarily talented British secret agent, is summoned to Paris to hunt down the assassins before it is too late. Ensnared in a terrifying web of doublecross and death, Palk races against the clock to outmaneuver, outshoot, and outthink his increasingly desperate foes. A decade before The Day of the Jackal appeared, Ben Abro's Assassination! July 14 became an international sensation, thanks to its sizzling plot, an ingenious, intellectual hero, and a realistic depiction of France's volatile political scene in the 1960s. In fact, the novel proved too real, provoking outrage and a lawsuit that shut down its publication. For the first time in decades, this gripping, underground thriller is again widely available. The equally riveting story behind the novel and the controversy it spawned are carefully explained in an informative essay by James D. Le Sueur. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, court transcripts, and recent evidence and scholarship, Le Sueur examines how an item of popular culture could have had such national and international repercussions. Ben Abro is the pseudonym of Robert Silman and Ian Young, who were students of philosophy under Jean-François Lyotard at the Sorbonne in the early 1960s. James D. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, Second Edition (Nebraska 2005). He is the editor of Mouloud Feraoun's Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War and a contributor to Henri Alleg's The Question, both available in Bison Books editions.