/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2669025]

Hey /lit/,
Are there any good books out there where you slip into the mind of an assassin? Preferably in the modern day era?

I read this one and thought it was pretty good. Are there any more like this?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.2669043]

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[Anonymous No.2669055]

>summer
>coming up with books similar to videogames
>sigh

The American is more assassin centric than the movie they made from it. There's also this book i wanted to get called The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning. I'm sure /lit/ will come up with a ton more as assassins are a popular topic of any fiction medium. I don't why you want a look inside a hitman's head anyway. They're generally very boring subjectivist with little to no personality. In Bruges was probably the best recent take on hitmen I've seen/read in awhile.

[Anonymous No.2669060]

It doesnt have to be in the first person, just about from the point of view of the assassin.

[Anonymous No.2669072]

>>2669055
funny enough I usually read during summer. Anyways, the thing is, i like it when they come up with a plan and it comes out to perfection. Where the "bad guy" is the protagonist sort of like Deathnote. It's not just about the killing but about what he does not not get caught kinda like Breaking Bad.

[Anonymous No.2669083]

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth is fantastic.
Written in '71 takes place in '63 I think.

The 1972 movie The Mechanic, I think was based on a book. Don't know the author.

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2669094]

Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy is about an assassin. Not anywhere near modern setting, though.
Also, Robin Hobb has that one assassin series, again, not modern day at all.

[Anonymous No.2669105]

>>2669072
Probably Drive by James Sallis. You'd probably like Palahniuk, too. Sorry, this is subject is outside of my normal reading interest so a lot what I suggest have movies associated with them. L.A. Confidential has a lot of well laid schemes.

My ultimate suggestion will be Plainclothes Naked by Jerry Stahl. He's a cop, but a very bad one and he's laying out plans and making everyone look silly throughout the whole book. Very graphic and funny. The guy has written for CSI and major literary magazines alike. I now step out.

[Anonymous No.2669115]

>>2669105
Oh! How dumb of me! The Bourne books.

[Anonymous No.2669123]

Kill Zone (Peter Macklin, the Nine to Five Killer, book 1) by Loren Estleman

[Anonymous No.2669134]

I don't know what it says about me but I love books and movies about assassins.

[Anonymous No.2669143]

lawernce block has a few books like that look him up

[Anonymous No.2669154]

>>2669134
It says you have latent homicidal tendencies, of course.

[Anonymous No.2669164]

>>2669154
Or it's a fantasy about an ideal of pure freedom and independence. Or both. Who knows. We should meet for coffee. Do you like almond flavored coffee?

[Anonymous No.2669168]

>>2669164
Sure, but I hate crowded areas. Is there somewhere nice and quiet we can meet set away from standard walking paths?

[Anonymous No.2669212]

>>2669168
Just so there's no misunderstandings... we're both coming armed right? It'd be such a social faux pas if only one of us was armed.

[Anonymous No.2669492]

>tracy looking hurt

[Anonymous No.2669496]

>>2669083

seconding The Day of the Jackal

brilliant.

[Anonymous No.2669509]

Lawrence Block - Hit Man (not related to the game in the OP pic)

There's also a large number of crime novels which aren't strictly about assassins, but do focus on killers:
James Sallis - Drive, Driven
Richard Stark - Parker series: The Hunter, The Man with the Getaway Face, The Outfit, etc
Joe Gores - Interface
Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me, Pop. 1280
Dan J. Marlowe - The Name of the Game is Death, One Endless Hour, The Vengeance Man
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
Charles Willeford - New Hope for the Dead