Bond's duty is to prevent a top KGB assassin codenamed " Trigger " from killing 272 by eliminating the sniper.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance??

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The word " assassin " was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassins | Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

The seventh assassin escaped to Montenegro where he was arrested.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

Others state that he was assassinated in the evening after the battle at his tent by the assassin who was admitted to ask a special favour.

On 27 July 1981, he was shot 5 times from a distance of around two meters in a Warsaw Victoria ( now Sofitel ) hotel coffee shop, but survived the attack, chasing his would-be assassin down to the coffee shop's front entrance before collapsing ;

After Hasdrubal's assassination by a Celtic assassin, Hamilcar's young sons took over, with Hannibal becoming the strategus of Iberia, although this decision was not undisputed in Carthage.

A few days later, while Saladin was resting in one of his captain's tents, an assassin rushed forward at him and struck at his head with a knife.

It has been claimed that during the gruesome torture of Balthasar Gérard ( the assassin of William of Orange ) in 1584, the song was sung by the

While another doctor called Guncelin, recognizing the symptoms of poisoning, was able to rescue the Duke from an imminent death, causing severe vomiting and cleansing the body ; but the assassin wasn't discovered, and this time put the poison in the knife used by Henry IV to cut his bread.

Lawrence Teeter, attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, believed Sirhan was under the influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was also a member of Oneida for a brief time.

Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.

* From Russia With Love ( 1963 ): the Irish assassin being modelled on both Red Grant and the leprechaun character from the Lucky Charms commercials ; Frau Frabissina partly modelled on Rosa Klebb ; Mustafa based on a character in Matt Helm's The Ambushers.

The Bickle character was in turn partly based on the diaries of Arthur Bremer, the attempted assassin of George Wallace.

* A Fish Called Wanda ( 1988 )-the manic narcissist assassin Otto ( played by Kevin Kline ) was a parody roughly based on Andreas Baader.

* The Chinese film Hero is loosely based on Jing Ke's assassination attempt, with Jet Li playing the assassin.

The film is loosely based on the plot of the novel, featuring an unnamed assassin ( Bruce Willis ) being hired to kill a high-ranking figure in the United States by the Russian mafia.

They are especially prone to do this to " new " characters – most all of them have a psychological " button " which triggers a desire to execute a character based solely on race, attitude or type of clothing ( e. g. looking like the character might be an assassin ).

Forsyth's novels also feature famous personalities and political leaders as characters — The Day of the Jackal features the French president Charles de Gaulle and his interior minister, Roger Frey, who heads the government search for the assassin — the opening chapter is based on an actual attempt by the OAS to kill de Gaulle.

Also in 2008, Kunis portrayed Mona Sax, an assassin, alongside Mark Wahlberg in the action film Max Payne, based on the video game of the same name.

An Assassin's Diary ( ISBN 0-06-120470-6 ) is the title of a book released in 1973 which was based on part of the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Alabama Governor George Wallace.

In this game, based on a popular Japanese manga, the player takes on the role of Golgo 13 ( also known as Duke Togo ), an assassin whose objective is to destroy the leader of the Drek group.

For example, spikes are worn as part of Scarab's assassin garb, because her armor design is based on a sketch that Yukio drew in his spare time.

The " Shepherd Boy " assassin character is based on Juan March Ordinas.

* Daragh O ' Malley, who plays Sergeant Patrick Harper in the series of TV movies based on Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series of historical novels, appears as Brosnan's fellow assassin.

It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974.

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

In 1991, Zahir Shah survived an attempt on his life by a knife-wielding assassin who pretended to be a Portuguese journalist.

Miles is assigned to the Barrayaran Embassy on Earth as Third Military Attaché, and meets his clone, who has been trained as an assassin.

In 1942, on the set of Un garibaldino al convento, he met Spanish actress Maria Mercader ( sister of Ramon Mercader, Trotsky's assassin ), with whom he started a relationship.

** John F. Kennedy assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television.

When John Ehrlichman, the President's counsel and assistant, asked Nixon why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon replied that " No assassin in his right mind would kill me " because they would get Agnew ( as President ).

Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days — from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881.

This would incentivise assassination of individuals because the assassin, knowing when the action would take place, could profit by making an accurate bet on the time of the subject's death.

: Mireille is a Corsican woman born into a powerful crime family, Mireille and her uncle are the sole survivors of a brutal attack on her family, whereafter he trained her to become an assassin.

Walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme in the central Stockholm street Sveavägen, close to midnight on 28 February 1986, the couple was attacked by an assassin.

* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

* The Carthaginian general Hasdrubal is murdered by a Celtic assassin while campaigning to increase the Carthaginian hold on Spain.

An attempt is made on UrLeyn's life by an assassin disguised as an ambassador, though DeWar anticipates the threat and kills the man before he can succeed.

Grampa claims to have attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on two occasions, one when he threw a javelin at him in the 1936 Summer Olympics, which barely missed and instead struck a would-be Hitler assassin, and once when he attempted to shoot him with a sniper rifle, missing only by a few centimeters due to unintentional interference by Montgomery Burns.

Célestin Hennion, the head of the French Police, was on hand to arrest the would-be assassin, who was tried but found not guilty.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse ( 19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949 ), was the sole assassin of Mahatma Gandhi — the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India and apostle of non-violence — shooting Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range on 30 January 1948 in New Delhi.

Also In Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, Cicero is an assassin who takes on the role of a Jester, exhibiting strange and erratic behavior.

On 20 July 1951, Prince Hussein traveled to Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque with his grandfather, King Abdullah I, where an assassin opened fire on Abdullah and his grandson.

In the television adaptation by Jack Pulman, the character dies after Augustus's death on Planasia with Sejanus becoming the assassin.

* The Emperor's Shadow ( 1996 )-The film focuses on Qin Shi Huang's relationship with the musician Gao Jianli, a friend of the assassin Jing Ke.