The Assassin

Overview

For the first time, the man the FBI described as "the perfect assassin, the very essence of evil: a man so blindly, terrifyingly obedient he would kill anyone, anywhere, without hesitation" tells his story. The son of wealthy, well-travelled parents, Michael Townley was an unlikely assassin. Yet both he and his wife were agents of DINA, the Chilean secret police, who were as ruthless as the Gestapo. Inside Story reveals how a reasonable, quite ordinary man crossed an invisible line into a world of torture and death, convincing himself that murder was moral - even normal.