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4: Behind the Locked Door; 5: Lights Out at Camp What-a-Nut; 6: The King's Quest; 7: Danger Lies Ahead; 8: Point of No Return; 9: Dark Passage; 10: Freedom Run; 11: The Stranger's Message; 12: A Carnival of Secrets; Strange Journey Back (Compilation of Books 1-4) Danger Lies Ahead (Compilation of Books 5-7, 12) Point of No Return (Compilation ...
Richard Lafargue is a renowned plastic surgeon keeping a young woman, "Eve", locked against her will in his villa. Alex Barny, a wanted fugitive after robbing a bank, decides to change the look of his face in order to avoid capture.
Thierry Jonquet (French: [tjɛʁi ʒɔ̃kɛ]; 19 January 1954 – 9 August 2009) was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes.He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights.
The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.
The return journey in Book 4, for example, has many parallels in the Odyssey – Scylla, Charybdis, the Sirens and Circe are hazards that Odysseus also negotiates. The Argonautica is notable too for the high number of verses and phrases imitating Homer, and for the way it reproduces linguistic peculiarities of old epic, in syntax, metre ...
James Paul Czajkowski (born August 20, 1961), better known by his pen name of James Rollins, [1] is an American veterinarian and writer of action-adventure/thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels who gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to be a full-time author.
Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey [1] is a 2007 novel by Zachary Mason, republished in 2010. It is a reimagination of Homer 's Odyssey . Mason, who wrote the book while working full-time, won first prize and initial publication in a 2007 competition sponsored by Starcherone Books , an independent publisher in Buffalo , New York . [ 2 ]