Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both chaotic and precise, capturing the fog of war as well as the warrior's uncanny clarity. Sneaking through the darkened countryside, holing up in safe houses and hedges, escaping on bicycle from spies and sentries, Henry grows from a rebel on a lark into a savvy I.R.A. assassin...
...eighth grade, when the school held a father-son night, John's companion was Roosevelt Grier, the former football star who in 1968 had tackled Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. But John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack...
Despite Hickman's attempts to warn his long-departed prodigal son, a black assassin shoots Sunraider on the floor of the Senate. The novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...
Stalin's urgency to kill Trotsky revolves around a secret that Stalin fears Trotsky is near to discovering. The reader knows, of course, that the assassin's ice ax will end up, on schedule, embedded in Trotsky's skull. The suspense is in waiting to learn Stalin's unpardonable sin--which turns out to be, historically, an interesting sin indeed...
...Assassin offers a different slant of light, the different light that reveals facets of character otherwise hidden, that jolts alertness. Some undergraduates--mostly male I suspect--love the game, and I am glad they do. So long as the Republic requires young men to register for compulsory military service, its universities must necessarily support the skills on which its freedom depends, and a bit of Assassin leads players to remember the primacy of infantry. But undergraduates who enjoy the game grow familiar not just with action and masquerading but with betrayal and protection from betrayal, and in time join...