Last updated: 11/2008

CTOBER 1962, Kennedy and Kruschev faced off against each other over Cuba. The Cold War moved to the real threat of a thermonuclear, end-of-the-world showdown. Thirteen months later, Kennedy was dead. Assassinated.

Six years before, a handful of senior U.S. military officers met secretly with a single, high-level, government official at an Army base in occupied Japan.

Ordered to attend were 16 Americans, all 19-years old or younger (except one--age 21). Each was selected from thousands of strictly screened enlisted personnel in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. What happened after that is the heart of this book.

The path to corruption and tragedy was inevitable. Yet two prevailed. One became a wealthy businessman during his 20 years of super secret service, the typical American success story, a pillar of his community. But his hidden life was a nightmare--a total secret from his wife and children, other family, friends, business associates, all--except for his handlers and the original group of professional government assassins of whom he was part.

The other, leader of the group, was a Berlin Jew who survived the Holocaust because of a skill that the Auschwitz commandant's wife found desirable. Read how and why in this shocking international action-packed thriller set in a context of high moral dilemma. Brave patriots or cold-blooded killers? At times, they themselves are not sure.

THE ULTIMATE ASSASSIN
A Terrible Tale of Highest Treachery at the Very Top

by Saul Firestein

First internet printing
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145 pages
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