One Shot One Kill - The democratization of Hitmen

"Forbus's work ha significantly helped us to realize that the hired gun is not just a person who entertains us on the page or on the cinema screen, but rather is simultaneously a real person, a set of activities, and a complex assembly of social relations, all intimately bound up with wider social, political and economic dynamics" (David Inglis, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen).

This book discusses the ancient profession of the hit man from its early, mythical origins to our present day. By drawing from a literature comprising of historical sources, US Secret Service data, and auto-biographies of renowned hit men, the paper will first provide an approximate understanding of these law-offenders by looking at their backgrounds and goals, and then compare their characteristics to those expressed by “makeshift killers.”
Data at hand, the book will finally argue that with modern wealth and opportunity, hit men are no longer restrained to work for criminal organizations, politicians or businessmen, but have become available to an ever-growing and varying demand, thus following the democratizing process undergone by other professions.