Sentence:  The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the "LRB" – saw Hitchens's <WSD>wet job</WSD> on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992). As he does with many of his subjects, he walked straight up to this one and dropped the guillotine, likening the book under review – an authorised biography – to ‘the profile of a serial murderer'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.