Assassination has been one of the cruelest instruments of political struggle since ancient times. Recent decades have been fertile grounds for assassinations. Many famous and prestigious names – Archduke Ferdinand of Hungary, Leon Troçki, Mahatma Gandi, JF Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Aldo Moro, Olof Palme, Yitzhak Rabin – have died by bullet, bomb or other weapon. They had the power to change history, if only they had remain alive.

What was happening in the background at the time of the Kennedy assassination? If Oswald was not the killer, can we ever know who committed the crime? Was the main reason for murdering the temperate, middle-of-the-road statesman Rabin to impede the Israel- Palestine reconciliations? If Olof Palme, a past prime minister of Sweden, had not been murdered, what scandals concerning shadowy figures of power would have emerged? Whose way of life was threatened by Martin Luther King? What was Ariel Sharon expected to gain from the killing of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin?

What will happen now, in the Middle East? Assassination: The Men Who Have Death on their Hands looks for answers to all of these questions…