The Devil's Feather
2005
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Unabridged edition
Macmillan Audio Books (Verlag)
978-1-4050-5405-8 (ISBN)
Macmillan Audio Books (Verlag)
978-1-4050-5405-8 (ISBN)
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Devil’s feather – [derivation Turkish] - a woman who stirs a man’s interest without realising it; the unwitting cause of sexual arousal]
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries?
When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter’s correspondent, Connie Burns, questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. In the wake of a vicious civil war which saw hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the rape and murder of women is of little consequence. Connie believes a foreigner’s responsible. A man who claims to have been in the SAS and works as a bodyguard to a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him from Kinshasa when he was a mercenary for Laurent Kabila’s regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women.
Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England and tries to rebuild the person she was before being subjected to three days of conditioning in a Baghdad cellar.
In the process, she strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature has alienated her from the rest of the Dorset community where she lives. Seeing parallels between herself and Jess, Connie borrows from the other woman’s strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer… …knowing he will come looking for her…
Devil’s feather – [derivation Turkish] - a woman who stirs a man’s interest without realising it; the unwitting cause of sexual arousal]
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries?
When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter’s correspondent, Connie Burns, questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. In the wake of a vicious civil war which saw hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the rape and murder of women is of little consequence. Connie believes a foreigner’s responsible. A man who claims to have been in the SAS and works as a bodyguard to a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him from Kinshasa when he was a mercenary for Laurent Kabila’s regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women.
Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England and tries to rebuild the person she was before being subjected to three days of conditioning in a Baghdad cellar.
In the process, she strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature has alienated her from the rest of the Dorset community where she lives. Seeing parallels between herself and Jess, Connie borrows from the other woman’s strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer… …knowing he will come looking for her…
Minette Walters is England’s bestselling female crime writer. She has written 11 novels and has won the CWA John Creasey Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette Walters lives in Dorset with her husband and two children. Saskia Wickham's many screen credits inlcude Peak Practice, Circle of Deceit, Boon, Our Friends in the North and Clarissa. Her film credits include Anna Karenina and Angels and Insects.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.9.2005 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Macmillan Audio Books |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 125 x 140 mm |
| Gewicht | 189 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
| Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch | |
| Schlagworte | Englisch; Krimis/Thriller (Audio-CDs) • Hörbuch; Fremdsprachige Literatur (Audio-CD) • Hörbuch; Krimis/Thriller-Lesungen (Audio-CDs) • Kriminallesungen (Audio-CDs) |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4050-5405-0 / 1405054050 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4050-5405-8 / 9781405054058 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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