My Immaculate Assassin - Softcover

Huddle, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936797771 ISBN 13: 9781936797776

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Inc., 2016

Synopsis

Maura Nelson, who has expertise in physics, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office - silently, anonymously, leaving no trace of violence, so that her target appears to have died of natural causes. After eliminating Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, Maura entices Jack Plymouth into a partnership to rid the world of those they decide "need to be dead." Both a steamy romance and a cyber- thriller, My Immaculate Assassin raises disturbing and timely questions about the technology and morality of "idealistic" murder, carried out remotely.

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Review:

Praise for David Huddle's fiction: "Ravishing, charged with both desire and emotional turmoil; his insights, though sometimes unsettling, skillfully mirror reality." - Publishers Weekly "Exposes the complex intuitive agreements intrinsic to even the most enigmatic relationships . . . reaching new heights of emotional verity and all-out bewitchment." - Booklist "Beautiful, accomplished . . . Its voices inform us of the chiaroscuro of the modern world-a place of light and shadow and endless possibility." - Boston Globe

About the Author:

Huddle is author of more than twenty previous books, including fiction, essays, and poetry. His novel Nothing Can Make Me Do This (Tupelo, 2011) won the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction, and his Black Snake at the Family Reunion (LSU) won the PEN New England Award for Poetry. An emeritus professor at the University of Vermont, he now teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and Pacific Lutheran University's Low-Residency MFA Program. A native of Ivanhoe, Virginia, David Huddle has lived in Vermont for over four decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1936797771
• ISBN 13: 9781936797776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256