The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh [Hardcover]

Tom Layne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2006

WHO ORDERED THE HIT ON RUSH LIMBAUGH? It’s 2015. A Republican choke hold on the White House and Congress is in its second decade. Desperate Democrats continue to be pilloried in the polls and each election year, their party's faithful become fewer and fewer.

Facing extinction by the GOP, a splinter group of Democrats hatches a frightful solution. With the help of an organized crime lord, they plot to assassinate the mouthpiece of the Republican juggernaut conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh is the fascinating multi-generational tale of two immigrant families set on a collision course one beholden to Democratic ideals and social change, the other quickly absorbed by the underworld.

For nearly a century, the two families’ paths crisscross, until fate pits the scion of one family against the descendant of the other. The harrowing race to thwart the assassination of Rush leads to a spellbinding showdown that will have reverberations for generations to come.

Set against a backdrop of national politics, social upheaval, and the rise of talk radio, The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh is a breathless, brilliant thriller for our political times.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A cabal of high-ranking Democrats plots to kill Rush Limbaugh a political thriller a devious plot...Ambitious." -- Kirkus Discovery

"Have we become so polarized that the assassination of a talk show host we disagree with is acceptable?" -- Anthony Zolezzi, author of

"Rush Limbaugh himself would enjoy this well-written thriller." -- Edward M. Brittingham, author of

"The perfect election-year thriller....An exhilarating ride with plenty of twists and surprises." -- New York Times Book Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 347 pages
• Publisher: Red Ginger Publishing Co., Inc (July 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976851504
• ISBN-13: 978-0976851509
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,933,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Must set the record straight, September 9, 2006

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Michael Molenda "Comenius" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh (Hardcover)

I was hoodwinked into buying this book by the few reviews posted here, so I'm hoping to offer a little guidance to others who might actually be interested in political-thriller type novels.

This is a truly amateur, sophomoric effort at fiction writing. And whoever the publishing company is, they've apparently cut out the middleman by foregoing an editor. In a 20-page stretch near the beginning of the book I found a half-dozen anachronisms (using facial tissues in 1915, but not invented until 1930; a female Columbia Law grad in 1917, but no woman at Columbia Law until 1927) and malapropisms (Nez Perce glasses instead of pince-nez, a voice quivering instead of quavering).

The characters are cardboard and events follow the most cliched patterns: in the climactic gunfight in the year 2016 the hero and villain each shoot each other in the right shoulder; then as the villain claws across the floor after his gun, Rush Limbaugh dives onto the floor (at age 65!) to grab the gun and to squeeze off a kill shot. Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.

This is truly bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. Be forewarned.

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rush is self-destructive!, December 7, 2008

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Whamo (San Clemente, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh (Hardcover)

A novel about someone killing Rush isn't needed. What's need is for people to read Thom Hartmann's book, "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class". For someone interested in politics, left or right, it's the important read.

6 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A sadly implausible update of Moby Dick, April 2, 2009

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Cioran Sellers (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh (Hardcover)

Yes how could one not want to pick up this book? But as someone who has actually been on a whale hunt I must point out that actually doing away with Rush would be far more complicated than depicted here. For instance Rush has an unusually thick layer of fat and his morbidly bulbous frame could absorb far more bullets than most guns now on the market. It's also possible that say an explosive device could be quickly drowned in the puddles of blubber. An arrow might not be able to penetrate the blubber either, as Captain Ahab could tell you. And there is also the possiblity that Rush having spent nearly a decade smashed out of his gills on pain pills and may have developed a threshold for pain that normal Americans with a basic moral fabric may not quite understand. Still putting aside those cavaets it was a lively fantasy and perhaps the sort of book to send your local ditto head out to his bunker indefinitely.