Jonathan Lee's latest novel is
High Dive. One of his
top ten assassination plots in fiction, as shared at the
Guardian:
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
No list of assassination plots would be complete without a little 007. The writing in The Man With the Golden Gun may not be as compelling as it is in some of Fleming’s other novels, but the story is desperately addictive. Bond is sent to Jamaica to kill a Cuban assassin called Scaramanga, a character apparently named after a hated contemporary of Fleming’s at Eton. With a schoolboy’s taste for entertainment, Fleming takes his revenge with a few strokes of ink.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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