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The Fifth Assassin
AuthorBrad Meltzer
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
Publication date
January 15, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages448 pp
ISBN9780446553971
OCLC820835886

The Fifth Assassin is a novel written by Brad Meltzer which follows the adventures of archivist Beecher White as he discovers a connection linking the four successful presidential assassins with a modern-day killer who is recreating their crimes. According to WorldCat, the book is in 1887 libraries [1]

Plot synopsis

More than two-dozen would-be assassins have targeted Presidents of the United States. Only four were successful: John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Archivist Beecher White - hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Inner Circle - uncovers a new assassin in Washington, D.C., mimicking the crimes of those four assassins. History has always believed the four killers were lone wolves, but Beecher thinks there may be more than meets the eye. Beecher discovers that all four assassins were working together over the course of a hundred years. But questions still remain to be answered: Why were they working together? Who do they work for? And what are their plans for the current President? Beecher and the team from The Inner Circle return to uncover the answers and face down the fifth assassin.

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