Angel of Darkness, The
by Caleb Carr | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679435328 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0679435328 Global Overview for this book
Registered by campuscopy of Edmonton, Alberta Canada on 12/16/2004
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In "The Angel of Darkness", Caleb Carr brings back the vived world of his bestselling "The Alienist" but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groungbreaking alienist Dr. Krizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends- high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitalbe, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime- have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to a be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be rruthless murderer of children.
Once again, Caleb Carr proves his ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children - then as now - turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughtout are characters thaken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, "The Angel of Darkness" is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.
In "The Angel of Darkness", Caleb Carr brings back the vived world of his bestselling "The Alienist" but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groungbreaking alienist Dr. Krizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends- high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitalbe, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime- have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to a be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be rruthless murderer of children.
Once again, Caleb Carr proves his ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children - then as now - turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughtout are characters thaken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, "The Angel of Darkness" is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.
Journal Entry 2 by campuscopy at Campus Copy Centre- Zone Closed. Do not use in Edmonton, Alberta Canada on Friday, December 17, 2004
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