The Devil's Feather 魔鬼的羽毛
[ 2006-11-14 14:08 ]
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Author: Minette Walters
List Price: $24
Pages: 368
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307264629
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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, Reuters
correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel
soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. In the wake of a vicious
civil war that saw hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the
rape and murder of women is of little consequence. And who cares if
child soldiers are beaten into a confession?
With little to go on, except her witnessing of a savage attack on
a prostitute, Connie believes that a foreigner is 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...
魔鬼的羽毛（典故源自土耳其）——引起男性遐想而不自覺(jué)的女人；挑逗性欲的不智之舉。
你是否曾經(jīng)想深深埋藏一個(gè)秘密，不讓任何人發(fā)現(xiàn)？
獅子山有五名女性被殘暴殺害，路透社的特派記者康妮·柏恩斯，對(duì)三名叛軍被指為兇手心存疑慮，但沒(méi)人把她的話當(dāng)一回事。在經(jīng)歷數(shù)十萬(wàn)人死亡與流離失所的慘烈內(nèi)戰(zhàn)后，婦女被強(qiáng)暴和殺害的案件根本微不足道。即使少年士兵被屈打成招，有誰(shuí)在乎？誰(shuí)又會(huì)注意到外籍傭兵中，出現(xiàn)了一名性變態(tài)狂。
除了親眼目睹一名妓女遭受野蠻攻擊外，康妮幾乎沒(méi)有其他的證據(jù)，但她認(rèn)為一個(gè)自稱曾在空降特勤隊(duì)服役過(guò)的男子就是兇手。她記得在今夏沙見過(guò)他，當(dāng)時(shí)他是羅倫·卡比拉政權(quán)旗下的傭兵，她懷疑這名男子趁戰(zhàn)亂，對(duì)當(dāng)?shù)貗D女實(shí)施了強(qiáng)暴。
兩年后在伊拉克，她第二次嘗試揭發(fā)兇手，結(jié)果卻非常不堪。她拖著受傷破碎的身心，惶惶不可終日的躲到英格蘭，卻在那和潔思·德比夏結(jié)為好友。獨(dú)來(lái)獨(dú)往的潔思過(guò)著隱士般的生活，可能她也隱瞞了許多秘密?？的菰跐嵥忌砩习l(fā)現(xiàn)了共通點(diǎn)，于是借助好友的力量，決定放手一搏，第三度揭發(fā)連續(xù)殺人兇手的真面目……
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About Author
Born in Bishop's Stortford,
England, Minette Walters was educated in Salisbury and went to
Durham University where she read French and German. She then became
magazine editor as well as a romance novelist. In 1992 she turned to
murder and was immediately very successful: her first crime novel
won the John Creasey award in 1992 for best first crime novel. Her
next two novels also won awards: The Sculptress won the 1994
Macavity and Edgar Awards for Best Novel; The Scold's Bridle won the
Gold Dagger also in 1994.
有“懸疑小說(shuō)女王”之稱的米涅·渥特絲﹙Minette
Walters﹚1949年生于英國(guó)，1992年開始嘗試懸疑推理小說(shuō)寫作，其處女作《冰屋》獲當(dāng)年英國(guó)推理作家協(xié)會(huì)年度最佳新作大獎(jiǎng)，次年她的第二本懸疑小說(shuō)《女雕刻家》一舉榮獲美國(guó)推理作家協(xié)會(huì)愛(ài)倫·坡獎(jiǎng)，1994年推出的《毒舌鉤》又摘取了英國(guó)推理作家協(xié)會(huì)金匕首獎(jiǎng)。
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