A critical review of the Romanian edition of Lindsay Porter’s work, exploring the political assassination from antiquity to the modern era. Keywords: Book review, Lindsay Porter, Political assassination, Tyrannicide, History of political murder, Political terrorism. Publication Details: Book review published in Romanian in Caiete de Antropologie Istorică, Year VIII, No. 2(15), 2009, pp. 215–222, a biannual journal published by the Seminar of Historical Anthropology, Babeș-Bolyai University. Although this issue of “Caiete de Antropologie Istorică” bears the official cover year 2009, the physical volume was published in late 2010 / early 2011 (manuscript finalized in October 2010), which accounts for the review of Lindsay Porter’s 2010 Romanian edition of the book.