Kahlil Gibran's The Madman"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.”
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me..."
Added by: otherwordly | Karma: 222.41 | Fiction literature | 29 March 2009
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The immortal Count Dracula--Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia--hunts the murderous art thieves who have stolen the portrait of his lost love. But the thieves are after more than art. From the Master Vampire they would steal the very secrets of life--and death!
Spring, 1994, Washington, D.C. -- While the Clinton Administration grapples with its domestic policies, a sinister plot is being masterminded six thousand miles away in Baghdad. By using $100 million as bait and spinning a deadly web of corruption, forgery, and terror, Saddam Hussein seeks to embarrass the U.S. with the ultimate revenge: to steal a treasured historical document and then destroy it before the world's media -- on July 4, 1994.
First
series book. One thunb,(the crooked bartender at The Vulgar Unicorn);
Enas Yorl, magician and involuntary shape changer; Jubal, ex-gladiator
and slave who is now a pillar of the community; Lythande the
Star-browed (his magic is in question, his sword-play is not); Cappen
Varra the Minstrel. These are just some of the unforgetable players you
will meet on a stage where murder, mayhem, and skullduggery-with always
a bit of magic-are the order of the day.
