Put Out More Flags is Waugh's superb send-up of "smart" England, the bohemian crowd, as World War II approaches. Making a return appearance, Basil Seal this time insinuates himself into an odd but profitable role in the country's mobilization.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1916) (UK Title: The Devil Doctor) As the sun begins to set on the British Empire, an agent of Eastern "evil" haunts Cairo, London and points between. In this second Fu-Manchu novel by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), the "devil doctor" leads our heroes on a chase through exotic and dangerous worlds.
Cross James Merrill, H. P. Lovecraft, and Carlos Castaneda -each imbued with a twenty-first-century aptitude for quantum theory and existential psychology-and you get the voice of Daniel Pinchbeck. And yet, nothing quite prepares us for the lucidity, rationale, and informed audacity of this seeker, skeptic, and cartographer of hidden realms.
When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe - not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City....
The Return: Shadow Souls (The Vampire Diaries - 6 )
by L.J. Smith:
Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search of Stefan.
