Cupiditas: Evil's Root

by Michael Segedy

Cupiditas: Evil's Root is a sequel to Michael Segedy's thriller/romance, In Deep. In this suspenseful story, a beautiful, young ex-CIA agent reunites with Steve Collins to solve the mystery to the murders of a U.S. senator, a Peruvian politician, and Peruvian journalist. Like In Deep, the mystery is full of twists and turns, full of romance and adventure, with dark underpinnings that show how powerful, ruthless, and narrowly focused political and corporate structures cast shadows over the lives of all of us.

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First published May 27, 2012

About the author

Michael Segedy is an award winning author. Over the years he has lived abroad in faraway places such as Taiwan, Israel, Morocco, and Peru. His life overseas has inspired him to write thrillers that include scenes set in foreign lands.

Novels to date:

Hampton Road, a psychological thriller
In Deep, a political thriller
Cupiditas, a political thriller
Evil's Root, a compilation of In Deep and Cupiditas
EMMA: Emergent Movement of Militant Anarchists, a terrorist thriller
Our Darker Angel, a crime thriller
Sanctimonious Serial Killers, a crime thriller

Apart from writing novels, Michael has published three non-fiction works:

A Critical Look at John Gardner's Grendel
Teaching Literature and Writing in the Secondary Classroom
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson with Introduction, Notes, and Lessons by Michael Segedy

He's also published numerous academic articles about literature and writing in various scholarly journals.

Gwendolyn Brooks, former poet laureate of Illinois, presented him with Virginia English Bulletin's first place writing award.

He and his family currently spend half of the year living in the US and the other half in Lima, Peru.

Reviews

[Audiobookreviewer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not only is this book filled with intrigue, and action but it contains words of wisdom. Educational in its deep look at South America, drug lords, military, and more, you will be drawn into the book and held captive. One cannot help but think about this book long after it’s finished.

Michael Segedy, the author, is a detailed storyteller who holds nothing back. His ability to weave a story of intrigue around corruption, drugs, politics and the military in a country where the myth seems to be close to real life is mesmerizing. Segedy takes his time-evolving his characters, building connections between the story and the listener. With each twist, and there are several, the listener is held spellbound.

The narrator, Sam Rosenthal gives life to each character. His tone reflects the personalities of each character. The Peruvian/Spanish accent is authentic sounding and adds to the story, although at times I found it very thick and that just enriched the story further. I enjoy listening to Rosenthal.

This book comes highly recommended.

[Susan Klopfer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now Is The Time To Pull Our Heads From The Sand

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. If you're old enough to have taken typing classes in high school, you might remember this sentence. It came to mind as I finished reading Michael Segedy's Cupiditas: Evil's Root. This author, a teacher and poet, is trying to deliver a critical message via fiction: we have to realize the intelligence community is out of control. He uses a real false flag event taking place in South America as the basis to deliver his message--the real murder of the two Peruvian journalists. As I read Cupiditas I regularly consulted online sources, finding matching reports, and all that I could do was shake my head. In a time when our own CIA clandestine service brags online that it serves its "customers" (not its country), this only reinforces the message of a captivating book written by a teacher who is telling us to pull our heads from the sand, before it is too late. Now is the time for ...