Fatal Charade
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Fatal Charade
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Author : Lee Moylan
language : en
Publisher: Crystal Dreams Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Fatal Charade written by Lee Moylan and has been published by Crystal Dreams Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Fiction categories.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it," is meant as a warning. But to Will Sinclair, learning from the past and repeating it is a goal. He is not like everyone else, and he knows it. From the first time he read about the "fatal charades" of ancient Rome public executions staged as mythological plays it has been his life's obsession. In his brilliant, twisted mind, he has created his own version a neoclassic. Instead of a mythological play a scene from a favorite movie. Instead of an execution a murder. And to relive the experience over and over a video recording. Reality TV to the extreme. Killing was not a moral issue for Caligula or Nero then or Sinclair today. Others are just objects in his insane fantasies. If people once got away with murder, why not now? So his quest to unleash his deadly desires and pay homage to the past begins... After being carefully selected, victim after victim assumes their role. Then he meets Annie Boden. He senses her vulnerability, her insignificance and an incredible opportunity. Already emotionally and physically abused, she is damaged goods: worn, weak, worthless. And tempting... But there's a problem. She has a connection to him. Her disappearance could bring two Chicago detectives right to his door. If Will Sinclair chooses to cast Annie Boden in one of his "fatal charades," will she accept the role and play her part? Experience the horror of someone else's sadistic psychosis? Will she die as she has lived...unseen, unheard? Or are there lessons in history Will Sinclair hasn't yet learned? In Fatal Charade, Lee Moylan's second novel, the author uses her scientific and forensic knowledge to create a frighteningly believable account that explores the depths of a deranged mind."
A Fatal Charade
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Author : Mark Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1974-01-01
A Fatal Charade written by Mark Ellis and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Fiction in English categories.
Deadly Charade
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Author : Virna DePaul
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Deadly Charade written by Virna DePaul and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Fiction categories.
Mad, bad and dangerous to know… District attorney Linda Delaney never imagined she would reunite with her former lover in a courtroom. Tony Cooper has been accused of murdering a notorious drug lord. In order to distance herself, Linda assigns Tony's case to another. But she can't escape him…. A threat to their lives brings Linda and Tony together once more, and their passion resurfaces. Despite his feelings for Linda, Tony can't reveal his true identity as an undercover cop. In order to bring a drug supplier to justice, he must convince Linda that he is a criminal. Will he complete the assignment…or will his mission be jeopardized by new desires and hidden enemies?
Fatal Charade
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Author : Janet Gomes
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-06-12
Fatal Charade written by Janet Gomes and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-12 with categories.
In the chilling true story of "Fatal Charade," the intricate web of a murder case unfolds, revealing the dark secrets and twisted motives that lie beneath the surface of an idyllic suburban town. When Robert Andrew is found dead, his wife Brenda Andrew's world is shattered. The police investigation takes a shocking turn as Brenda's carefully crafted tale of masked gunmen begins to unravel. With no evidence pointing to an intruder, the authorities discover hidden clues that hint at a different truth. As the investigation deepens, the sinister plot thickens. An empty shotgun shell, misplaced bullets, and a neighboring house with a key entrusted to Brenda, a Sunday School teacher, set the stage for a heart-stopping revelation. The truth lies within the fragments of a shattered life, as dark secrets are exposed, and a chilling motive emerges.
The Wound And The Witness
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Author : Jennifer R. Ballengee
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2009-01-21
The Wound And The Witness written by Jennifer R. Ballengee and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Wound and the Witness offers a historically grounded approach to an urgent contemporary problem: the persistence of torture in Western culture. Drawing upon ancient Greek and Roman texts, as well as contemporary media events, Jennifer R. Ballengee explores the spectacle of torture as a persuasive device. She suggests that both torture and the witnessing of torture are forms of polemical writing, carried out on the body. The analysis combines close reading and philological study with a materialist cultural approach to ancient Greek theater, early Christian accounts of martyrdom, and recent political controversies over the interrogation tactics in the U.S. government-run Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. By incorporating key classical texts by Sophocles, Achilles Tatius, and Prudentius, the author demonstrates how deeply the ancient literature resonates with contemporary issues of the body, rhetoric, and the spectacle of pain.
Martial
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Author : William Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-07-05
Martial written by William Fitzgerald and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today’s culture, his work has been largely neglected in contemporary scholarship. Arguing that Martial is a major author who deserves more sustained attention, William Fitzgerald provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding new and much-needed light on the Roman poet’s world—and how it might speak to our own. Writing in the late first century CE—when the epigram was firmly embedded in the social life of the Roman elite—Martial published his poems in a series of books that were widely read and enjoyed. Exploring what it means to read such a collection of epigrams, Fitzgerald examines the paradoxical relationship between the self-enclosed epigram and the book of poems that is more than the sum of its parts. And he goes on to show how Martial, by imagining these books being displayed in shops and shipped across the empire to admiring readers, prophetically behaved like a modern author. Chock-full of epigrams itself—in both Latin and English versions—Fitzgerald’s study will delight classicists, literary scholars, and anyone who appreciates an ingenious witticism.
Ancient Narrative Volume 10
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language : en
Publisher: Barkhuis
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Ancient Narrative Volume 10 written by and has been published by Barkhuis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Sport And Spectacle In The Ancient World
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Author : Donald G. Kyle
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-12-31
Sport And Spectacle In The Ancient World written by Donald G. Kyle and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-31 with History categories.
The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. • Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks • Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment • Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response • Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures
Epigrams
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Author : Martial
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Epigrams written by Martial and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Literary Collections categories.
'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the pretensions, addictions, and cruelties of its inhabitants with perfect comic timing and killer punchlines. Social climbers and sex-offenders, rogue traders and two-faced preachers - all are subject to his forensic annihilations and often foul-mouthed verses. Packed with incident and detail, Martial's epigrams bring Rome vividly to life in all its variety; biting satire rubs alongside tender friendship, lust for life beside sorrow for loss. Gossipy, clever, and above all entertaining, they express amusement as much as indignation at the vices they expose. This selection brings Martial to a twenty-first century readership in a prose translation that pulls no punches and presents him in all his moods. It establishes his originality as a literary author, and the significance of his achievement as the poet who conquered epigram for Rome. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Collaborators
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Author : Ian Buruma
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2023-03-09
The Collaborators written by Ian Buruma and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The Times On the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure-seeker who became Heinrich Himmler's indispensable personal masseur - Himmler calling him his 'magic Buddha'. Kersten presented himself after the war as a resistance hero who convinced Himmler to save countless people from mass murder. Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender fluid Manchu princess, spied for the Japanese secret police in China, and was mythologized by the Japanese as a heroic combination of Mata Hari and Joan of Arc. Friedrich Weinreb was a Hasidic Jew in Holland who took large amounts of money from fellow Jews in an imaginary scheme to save them from deportation, while in fact betraying some of them to the German secret police. Sentenced after the war as a traitor and a con artist, he is still regarded by supporters as the 'Dutch Dreyfus'. All three figures have been vilified and mythologized, out of a never-ending need, Ian Buruma argues, to see history, and particularly war, and above all World War II, as a neat tale of angels and devils. In telling their often-self-invented stories, The Collaborators offers a fascinating reconstruction of what in fact we can know about these fantasists and what will always remain out of reach. It is also an examination of the power and credibility of history: truth is always a relative concept but perhaps especially so in times of political turmoil, not unlike our own.