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The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh Hardcover – July 14, 2006

by Tom Layne (Author)

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WHO ORDERED THE HIT ON RUSH LIMBAUGH? Its 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.

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347 pages
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English
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Red Ginger Publishing Co., Inc
Publication date

July 14, 2006
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6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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0976851504
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978-0976851509
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"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

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Publisher : Red Ginger Publishing Co., Inc (July 14, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 347 pages
ISBN-10 : 0976851504
ISBN-13 : 978-0976851509
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #13,864,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #26,993 in Political Fiction (Books)
- #226,462 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #435,385 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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sharon tiger

I really enjoyed this book

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015

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I really enjoyed this book. By bringing in real people to interact with the book characters made the book believable . Also, I liked the building of the story through generations up to the present. I liked that the author did not innidate us with bad language and sex - refreshing!

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Michael in Indiana

Must set the record straight

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2006

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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.

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Cioran Sellers

A sadly implausible update of Moby Dick

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2009

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.

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Tom Cat

A Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2006

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.

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Stephen Wimer

Rush is self-destructive!

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2008

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.

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Kay Frieda

The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2006

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.

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MATT MIDDLETON

Amazing read...

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2006

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!!

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A Master Storyteller

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2006

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.

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