The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

Chapter 24: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A clandestine bureau operates a business of arranging contract killings presented as instruments of justice, run by a cool, erudite director who keeps meticulous records and philosophical rationales. When clients bring a grievance against a powerful official, dealings with the bureau expose practical dangers, internal tensions, and tests of principle as members confront unintended consequences. The plot combines suspenseful episodes of plotting and assassination with satirical and ethical reflection on power, responsibility, and whether violent means can be justified as social reform.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

According to the note at the end of the story (page 179), the transition of authors from Jack London to Robert Fish occurs on page 122. The first full paragraph on that page reads: “Do something!” Grunya entreated Hall. “You must do something.”

Page 33: “you ever fail” was printed as “you every fail”. Changed here.