In The Commissions Of Augustus Mandrell By Frank McAuliffe Vol. 2&3 Cult Classic

“Augustus Mandrell is a private, professional killer. He is utterly unscrupulous, pandering always to the highest payer.

His only saving grace is that he takes enormous inverted pride in neat and bizarre forms of killing. His memoirs (now in three volumes) consist of his various "commissions" as he euphemistically describes them. His works, as he relates them, are hard to believe. Even the language and style of the writing is tortuously out-of-sight. (The closest thing, in emotional climate, would be Dr. Strangelove.) In fact, when you get right down to it, these memoirs are farcical, zany, sexy in a somewhat startling fashion, bloody, and shame-less. Mandrell has no respect whatever for anybody's laws, much less national or political barriers. He is first, second, third, fourth and fifth for Augustus Mandrell. He has the utmost contempt for all forms of establishmentarianism, and he particularly hates the military. As someone has aptly said, 'He is a kind of underground Don Quixote.