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SCIENCE FICTION/THRILLER-IRISH-AMERICAN COLM MCCANDLESS WAS ONE OF THE WORLDS RICHEST MEN-AND ALSO ONE OF IT'S MOST DANGEROUS.HIS OVERWHELMING AMBITION WAS TO KICK THE BRITISH OUT OF IRELAND AND SUBJUGATE THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO HIS RULE.HE HAD ENLISTED THE SUPPORT OF SOME VERY POWERFUL ALLIES AND HAD BUILT,IN SECRET,A MASSIVE,DEVASTATINGLY DESTRUCTIVE
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First published March 12, 1987
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John Denis
25 books5 followersPen name for John Edwards (former editor of the BBC That's Life programme) and his collaborator Denis Frost.
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March 4, 2025
I support women's wrongs.
I know it comes with the genre, but the use of Eithne Mallon for sadistic sexual thrills and Cristal (I don't believe anyone in 1960 would christen their daughter 'cristal', but I could be wrong) as invincible action woman, a killing machine whose horrible torture is always portrayed with assurances that she's still an erotic object worthy of admiration. Add on the inexplicable lesbian sexploitation bits (who gets branded on their vulva and accepts a genital massage the same day?) and it just feels gross.
I know it comes with the genre, but the use of Eithne Mallon for sadistic sexual thrills and Cristal (I don't believe anyone in 1960 would christen their daughter 'cristal', but I could be wrong) as invincible action woman, a killing machine whose horrible torture is always portrayed with assurances that she's still an erotic object worthy of admiration. Add on the inexplicable lesbian sexploitation bits (who gets branded on their vulva and accepts a genital massage the same day?) and it just feels gross.
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