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Describes some of history's most famous assassinations includingthose of Jean-Paul Marat, Nicholas II, Mahatma Gandhi, and Trujillo, and discusses the characteristics and philosophy of this special kind of murder.

"After combing through thousands of recently declassified FBI files and interviewing key witnesses, crime analysts, and forensic experts during years of research, investigative writer David Gardner has unearthed new information that will transform the way we look at the lives and deaths of Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Princess Diana"--

The author showcases the world's top conspiracies, including Leonardo da Vinci's stolen prophecy, the Kennedy assassination, and the DB Cooper story. Meltzer, a master storyteller, counts down the world's top ten conspiracy theories. He sifts through the evidence, weighs competing theories, separates what we know to be true from what is unproved or unprovable. In the end, he decodes the mystery and arrives at the most like explanation... or does...