Author Nick Taussig, is author of 3 critically acclaimed Novels: Love and Mayhem (2005), Don Don (2007) and Gorilla Guerrilla (2008). Nick was born in 1973 and grew up in Wimbledon, London. The former Managing Director of Revolver Entertainment. Nick oversaw the release of some of the most important and critically acclaimed films of the past decade, including Bart Layton's The Imposter (2012), Banksy's Exit Through The gift Shop (2010), His recent credits include Offender (2012) and Plan B's ill Manors. And The Distinguished Assassin is well worth a read.

1952. Free at last from a labour camp in Kolyma, the heart of Gulag hell, war hero and former professor Aleksei Klebnikov hopes to rejoin his family and recover some semblance of the life he once had. However he is crushed to discover that his beautiful wife Natasha has betrayed him with his old enemy Vladimi Primakov, the MVD agent who imprisoned him. Embittered by the system that has destroyed his assassinate six leading Communists. All of them are evil men, responsible for untold misery, and Aleksei sees this as his opportunity to take revenge upon the Communist state.

But with just one man left to kill. Aleksei is unexpectedly reunited with his wife and daughter and hopes to put up his demons to rest, repent for the past and to return to family life. But the life of the assassin is not one that can be easily cast aside. All is not quite what it seems, and as Alekseiv battles his conscience and the dark memories of his crimes, he realises that his greatest enemy has yet to be unveiled.

In my opinion Nick Taussig, is clearly a hugely talented writer, his thought provoking tale is excellently told with a tale of love told on the darker side of London. Pure Genius.

© Words - Gia Marie Barbera