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Former CIA Agent Robert Baer on 'The Perfect Kill'

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'The Perfect Kill'
'The Perfect Kill' by Robert Baer
Book cover courtesy of publisher

Robert Baer, a former CIA agent and bestselling author, joins The Daily Circuit to talk about his new book "The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins," an insider's guide to the art of political murder.

From Publisher's Weekly:

He recounts a decade spent tracking the Lebanese assassin known as Hajj Radwan, and distills his knowledge into 21 pithy laws, each of which gets its own chapter. As he takes the reader from #1 "The Bastard Has to Deserve It" to #21 "Get to It Quickly," Baer argues both for and against the necessity of assassination, noting his preference for the old-fashioned, more personal approach over modern drone warfare, which he compares to phone sex: "[drones] solve the immediate problem, but they leave you unsure of what you got out of it and hungry for more." His style is candid and accessible, with a little of the American cowboy in evidence.