Saving my assassin a memoir
"I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. Apparently, God had other plans." At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering 6'10" gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first...
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Carol Stream, Illinois :
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Bucharest, Romania, 1984
- Techirghiol, Romania, 1961
- I vividly remember the first time I was left alone and in charge of the house
- Summer's end was marked by three events that I looked forward to each year
- On May 12 of my senior year of high school, I passed the baccalaureate exam
- "Explain to me, please, what persona non grata means"
- One Saturday I answered the phone, and to my surprise, it was Radu
- By the time my midterm exams were over, I was a wreck and ready for spring break
- While being a lawyer under the Communist regime did make me part of the "privileged" class, I really didn't consider myself privileged at all
- "I don't want to be an attorney anymore," I announced, walking into my office
- After six months of studying the Bible, I was baptized
- As elated as I was to see Martin and Liviu go free, deep down I knew they were only two of hundreds, possibly thousands
- With each case, the Securitate's scare tactics became more intense
- To say that it had been an exhausting week would be a gross understatement
- Early the next morning, I fixed my coffee, read my Bible, and waited for the alarm to wake up the girls
- President Ceausescu's government worked in stealth mode
- Epilogue : Dallas, Texas, 2010
- A final note from the author
- Afterword : A final note from my assassin
- Q & A : An interview with Virginia Prodan
- About the author
- Discussion questions.
