The Well-Mannered Assassin

by Aline, Countess of Romanones

Book Overview

When Aline meets a handsome young man in the line of business one day, a pleasant acquaintance begins. Yet the flowers she receives seem to indicate that he has something in mind. By the time she learns the truth--that her charming new friend is actually the notorious terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal --- a deadly game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Aline makes her way through a host of lavish settings in Bavaria, Paris, and Marbella, where friends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399138633
• ISBN13: 9780399138638
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Putnam
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 1.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Well-Mannered Assassin By Aline Countess of Romanones

I loved this book. I had just re-read The Spy Wore Red, The Spy Went Dancing, The Spy Wore Silk from the same Author, and had decided I wanted to buy them. When I entered them I found this one that I had previously known nothing about. I was very excited to find it. This womans' Spy work is so interesting. The locations these stories cover and the opulant living are great. This Book took the stories further and was a delight. I love a quick moving book that grabs your imagination right away.

The Well-Mannered Assassin

The Well-Mannered Assassin was a suspenseful book with lots of thills and great detail. Aline Romanones, an American Beauty, goes back to her days at the OSS as a spy. She decides to help out her old spymaster John Derby when she finds out she's been befriended by an international terrorist; Carlos the Jackal. It's a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will keep you coming back for more.

Started out as fact...but fiction wove in

In the beginning in the book, Countess confesses as having started this as a non-fictional account involving Carlos the Jackal. But when she heard that he might still be alive...she had to weave in fiction to protect herself and others. This was a wonderful story, and it is amazing, how a well-mannered young man, is a assasin. This was a fast paced book, nothing was boring.