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The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh

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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.

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.

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.

It was a great story or rather, several stories expertly woven together by a masterful storyteller. I truly enjoyed it. I find it hard to believe this is a first effort. I look forward to the next book with anticipation.

The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh is the story of two immigrant families in search of the American dream. The family from France takes up law, politics, and police work, while the Sicilian family descends into a life of crime. For the better part of a century, the families' courses fatefully intersect and intertwine until, in the climax, the youngest descendant of the French family finds herself in a losing race to prevent the hit man of the organized crime family from shooting America's number one talk radio personality.

Along the way, readers go to artillery training and World War I combat with Harry Truman. They experience Truman's angst for the Presidential decision to use atomic bombs on Japan and they go ashore with American troops invading Sicily in World War II. Readers sit in the courtrooms where three historical trials change the legal face of America. They experience the life of an American Mafiosi from birth through his membership in a violent Brooklyn street gang to his rise to the inner sanctum of a New York crime family.

Readers tune in to the development of talk radio, and the fear it instills in politicians, from its first broadcast at the 1915 San Francisco Worlds Fair to today's round-the-clock diatribes. They sit in on closed-door meetings where that fear gradually leads powerful politicians to plot the murders of the two most popular talk show hosts.

Readers feel the icy fear and terror in the minds of two victims of exotic and deliberate murder by a hit man whose very name means nightmare in Italian.

And finally, readers get to know Jodie Farmer, as she goes from adolescent to college pal of a mafia captain's son to heroic FBI Special Agent. They feel her take a terrorist's bullet while foiling a nearly successful plot to kill tens of thousands in America's northwest. And they're by her side in the climactic gun battle inside Rush Limbaugh's Florida mansion.

I love the book and highly recommend it.

I loved this book and could not put it down...I found myself up at 3:00 in the morning rushing to the next page. The intelligence and compasion the author put into the book was admirable and fantastic at best! I also could see this book as a movie....Sal....James Gandolfini? Isn't it about time for another great Hollywood Goodfellas movie? Great Book!!

The Assassination Of Rush Limbaugh by Tom Layne is an engaging and suspenseful novel about the coming struggle of the American Democratic party and the relentless, oppressive, exploitative political power embodied by the Republicans. Featured in the year 2015, The Assassination Of Rush Limbaugh is about two migrant families and their historical clashing as one of them was immediately taken by the right wing political spectrum and the other eased into the Democratic party's enraged discontent. Very highly recommended reading (especially for political science students and political activists), The Assassination Of Rush Limbaugh is a gripping fictional tale of who, what, how and why Limbaugh's assassination took place.

I absolutely loved this book I could not put it down. I can see it as a movie and I hope it gets there. I also hope Rush is bright enough to read this. It's a great read.