March 24 2025
When does the killing of political leaders become morally justifiable? Killing the Hitlers, Stalins and Pol Pots of the world is easy to justify. Murderous tyrants need to be killed. But what if our leaders are merely idiots, or perhaps corrupt, petty tyrants who aren’t in the same league as Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot? How much damage can we allow them to do, how many of our rights can we allow them to take away, before killing them becomes justifiable homicide?
In Robert McGee’s latest novel, “Justifiable Homicide,” we are drawn into the world of a small group of patriots in Miami who believe that some of our leaders have already crossed the line and decided to do something about it. They identify potential targets for assassination and start going through the list. When our protagonist, an accounting professor with some firearms and martial arts training named Robert Paige, learns that one of his friends is on the list, he decides he must do whatever is necessary to stop them. The problem is: He doesn’t know who all the cell members are, or how to stop them.
Be sure to watch today’s interview with Elaine’s Literary Salon show host Jeffery James Higgins who asks Robert about his book, work as an author, and professional life as an attorney and CPA, having earned 23 academic degrees, including 13 doctorates from universities in the USA and Europe.
Click here to buy Robert’s latest book, “Justifiable Homicide” on Amazon.com.
Author Robert McGee
About the author: Robert W. McGee is a professor at the Broadwell College of Business and Economics, Fayetteville State University, USA and Adjunct Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has earned 23 academic degrees, including 13 doctorates from universities in the USA and four European countries, and has completed post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School, the Stanford Medical School and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He has published more than 60 books, including several novels and more than 1000 articles, book chapters, conference papers, and working papers. Various studies have ranked him #1 in the world for accounting ethics and business ethics scholarship. He has also been ranked #1 in the world for tax evasion research for 47 years (1975-2022) and the 70 years (1952-2022), and he is ranked among the Top 10 economists in the world for research impact.
Robert has spent decades as an attorney and CPA, and has worked or lectured in more than 30 countries. He drafted the accounting law for Armenia and Bosnia and reviewed the accounting law for Mozambique. He was in charge of assisting the Finance Ministries of Armenia and Bosnia convert their countries to International Financial Reporting Standards. One of his doctoral dissertations was used as the basis for FASB Statement #86, Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed.
He is also a world champion in taekwondo, karate, kung fu and tai chi and has won more than 1000 gold medals.
