Kill Me If You Can‪!‬

In the rigidly controlled world of Apollyon, assassination is not a crime but a civic ritual, and Rad Bartol is seized because his face can stand in for a ruler's. Surgically altered and hypnotically conditioned into the exact double of the Autarch, he is forced to smile, wave, and play his part even as an attack on the palace begins. The premise fuses political satire with science-fiction suspense, trapping Bartol between his stolen identity and the commands buried in his mind. Chosen because he is the closest physical match, Bartol is needed where androids fail: their artificial brain radiation would expose them, making a human decoy essential. As the Commander explains the brutal logic of Apollyon's system—where the Benevolent Society of Assassins replaces rulers every five years and propaganda keeps fear in power—the novel sharpens into a biting critique of authoritarian control, manipulation, and ritualized democracy. When the assassin breaks through, Bartol's buried training resurfaces. He slips free, swaps places with a guard, and turns the palace corridors into a tense cat-and-mouse chase, hunting the killer while struggling to reclaim his own will. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.