The Obedient Assassin

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480468290

<DIV><DIV><b>A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ram&oacute;n Mercader&mdash;the obedient assassin</b></div><DIV><BR>Ram&oacute;n Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great in&shy;tellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.</div><DIV><BR>As Ram&oacute;n is trained for the task and assumes a new identity, he lives a lush life in Paris, befriending Frida Kahlo and other artists of the time. He falls in love with a left-leaning Jewish woman whom he is ordered to seduce as a means of getting at Trotsky.</div><DIV><BR>From Barcelona to Paris and New York to Mexico City, the group controlling Ram&oacute;n&mdash;including Ram&oacute;n&rsquo;s mother and her lover&mdash;guides the assassin on the inevitable resolution of his grim task as he must penetrate Trotsky&rsquo;s compound.</div><DIV></div></div>