- Fiction, Mothers and sons, Assassins, Cold War
Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin.
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Grave, classical in form, plot-driven and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Condon
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Signet, Blackstone Pub, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743482974
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