Brad Meltzer is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, two non-fiction books, and five comics. A Columbia Law Graduate, he enriches his thrilling novels with his knowledge of law and the United States government. In The Fifth Assassin, Beecher White, the hero of Meltzer’s The Inner Circle, discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who is meticulously recreating the crimes of the world’s most famous assassins: John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Beecher uncovers a connection that spans over a century of U.S. history and may bring him face to face with the fifth assassin.