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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
If you've been looking for something really different, take a peek at Eric Stannard's novel The Patriotic Assassins. It features two men who are seemingly unimportant figures of their time. In the mid-century 1900s, Sparky is a Mafioso figure who is determined to impress his bosses so as to move ahead in the world. Lee is a seemingly unassuming man who had a troubled childhood and a dream to live three lives like the television show which was popular at the time. Lee joins the Marines and then acts as a spy during the cold war. While Lee is trying to make an impression as a patriot for his country, Sparky has opened a night club in Dallas and is hired for one test of loyalty after another. At one point in time, the two men meet and the nation is forever altered by their acts. Believing themselves to be ultimate patriots, they become assassins.
Author Stannard claims the book is factually based and that only two chapters in the novel are truly fictionalized. The reader will be caught speculating which two chapters contain fantasy as well as which factual parts could be fictionalized. The book began slowly for me, but as dialogue replaced information, the speed and interest picked up considerably. The reader will be wondering how the author got factual information for a book as revealing as The Patriotic Assassins. The conspiracy of national figureheads is truly troubling and one gets the idea that headlines mean little in modern-day USA. Whether you want to believe what is written or not, this is truly a provocative read.
