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In 1964 in Dallas a baby named Andrew saw his mother and her lover murdered in front of him. His father, a professional killer, disappeared at the same time.
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Twenty-six years later, in Ryan David Jahn’s The Gentle Assassin (Pan, £7.99), Andrew decides that he can never truly begin living his own life until he has exorcised that trauma.
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