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Death Dealer's Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: Bradley J. Steiner
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $300.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1700379
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 1.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 0873642473
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523028
EAN: 9780873642477
ASIN: 0873642473
Publication Date: January 1982
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Product Description
Noted martial combat writer Bradley Steiner managed to penetrate the inner sanctum of the world's busiest assassination bureaus in compiling this terrifying guide to death-for-sale. Covers edged weapons, handguns, improvised weapons, the garrote and crossbow, poisons, unarmed killing techniques and dim-mak, as well as the attributes of the professional assassin. For information purposes only!
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 A Handbook for Professionsl Killers August 3, 2008
I bought this book the day it came out back around 1982. It was published in Paladin Press' heyday. There is actually a volume 2 of this book published around 1985 titled KILLER ELITE by the same author. Would you believe the original price was just $8.00? This book along with John Minnery's KILL WITHOUT JOY (which contains all 6 volumes of the HOW TO KILL series) formed the core of my bookshelf. In September of 1999 Paladin Press took all of their most dangerous books out-of-print, and thus ended a 20 year run of the most dangerous books ever published. They lost a lawsuit over a freedom of speech issue over their book HITMAN: A TECHNICAL MANUAL FOR INDEPENDANT CONTRACTORS. Come to find out, and contrary to popular belief, you CANNOT publish anything you want in a book. A reader took the material in that book and fancied himself a professional killer and promptly killed three people. Relatives sued and won a million dollar lawsuit. The results of that lawsuit had far reaching implications in the area of "deep fringe publications". These kinds of books are becoming very hard to find and will only increase in price. It's a fun read, but unfortunately this information had to be put back in the closet.
The Title Says It All. May 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nothing fancy or even remotely schmancy here. It's all pretty clear cut and straight forward. I wonder if such a book really needs to be written. Hey, guess what, if you chop a guy's head off he'll die!
However, if you have no knowledge and a strong yearning to know how to terminate a human life, Mr. Steiner does an admirable job of covering the bases. There's a target/anatomy chart for bare hand strikes, most efficient uses of knives and icepicks, firearm techniques, naked chokes and neck breaks, garrotes, crossbows, poisons, improvised weapons and even The famous Delayed Death Touch. Pretty comprehensive for such a thin book! There's even a type of self-evaluation in the back to help you decide if you are assassin material.
Two points of note:
1) The poison Black Leaf 40 is no longer manufactured and if it were it would be on a watch list as this book is 25 years old and I have seen it recommended in at least two other books. It's not a secret anymore.
2) The "Brass Knuckles" made of Newspaper shown on page 59 really DO work, exactly as advertised.
If this is the subject matter that you are looking for, there are few finer examples in the genre.
Death Merchant Inc. February 11, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr.Steiner is highly respected in his field and more than qualified in writing on this subject. I found the book to contain loads of useful info.He goes into detail different variations of combat style chokes that are bone breakers,the practioner must find his own way of getting to the enemys backside to apply them ,not all that difficult if one has some traininig.Plus theres alot more of interesting info.
 DEEPLY FLAWED April 2, 2003
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
There were a number of technical errors in this book, but it was easily twice as good as the sequel, "Killer Elite," so I gave it twice as many stars! The "quick kill" chart for use of the blade was fairly accurate, although the effectiveness of these moves was a tad overrated, and the correct details as to how to make these moves more effective were not disclosed (presumably because Bradley does not know them). The garrotte was overrated as a weapon, and its shortcomings (of which there are many) were barely touched upon. This book does offer a number of illustrations as to the "best ways" to snap a man's neck (from behind, when he's not expecting it), although there is absolutely no safe way to practice these moves. Amusing, but far from accurate in many aspects. I gave my copy away.
To the point... August 28, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is very thorough in it's description of how to kill another human.. Unlike most other books in the same genre, it does NOT describe obscure and fancy methods, therefore is not especially thick, and it doesn't have to be either.. It's written almost 20 years ago, so please consider the developements in firearms, since the text on handguns doesn't apply 100% today.. It does however describe such things as the correct use of the garotte, which is often badly handled, or outright wrong. All in all, I think this is simply the best book in the genre..
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