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Thanks to a successful suit by University of Richmond law professor Rodney Smolla, you can't buy a copy of Hit Man anymore. Or at least not from Paladin Press, the publisher of the purported how-to manual for assassins and the defendant in Smolla's suit, Rice v. Paladin Press.
What you can do, however, is download the book for free from the Web. You can thank Smolla for that, too.
http://www.overthrow.com/hitmanonline.html
The First Amendment scholar brought the suit on behalf of the families of three murder victims whose killer allegedly used Hit Man to plot his crimes. The Paladin suitended earlier this year in a multimillion-dollar settlement. The money will go to the families and also two charities chosen by the plaintiffs. "Most important," Smolla writes in Deliberate Intent, his recently published account of the case, "Paladin agreed to take the book Hit Man from the market."
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