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21) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who meets Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer. Bose introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground called The List, which is a mysterious sex club for Manhattan's executives. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy,' one of betrayal, treachery and murder. But in this new world, Jonathan soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Naomi Roth, having discovered the body of a newborn baby floating facedown in the Sabbathday River, is horrified when the community rushes to place the blame on Heather Pratt, a young single mother, but after engaging lawyer Judith Friedman to help Heather, Naomi is even more shocked to learn the truth.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 174
Pub. Date
2019
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In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and values but the nature and values of his society.
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