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Gerard Cappa

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Description:Foreword by Jay A GertzmanWriters from Chandler and Hammett through Willeford, Elroy, and Bret Easton Ellis have shown how the administration of cities is not corrupt, not a distortion of a moral norm, but inherently predatory. The depredation makes individuals themselves paranoiac and desperate. The 20th century industrial city has been replaced as the subject of political thrillers by corporate forces and international monetary policies to which nations, their spy agencies, military bureaucracies, and fossil fuel oligarchies are subservient. Jean-Patrick Manchette (The Prone Gunman), Don DeLillo (Point Omega), John Le Carré (The Constant Gardener) and Richard Godwin (Confessions of a Hit Man) write about these forces and the various forms of isolation and anxiety people suffer due to their influence. They are transgressive for the same reason writers about the urban streets of no return were. There is no return to order at the end of these stories, for there is no moral consensus possible. There cannot be any return to innocence, for it did not exist in the first place. Beyond the glitter of upscale consumerism, the billions of dollars lost and found in the fog of war, the complex struggles for advantage between American, Chinese, Russian, and Eurozone operatives, the texture of life is sinister.It is especially so in Gerard Cappa’s Black Boat Dancing and Blood from a Shadow. Like both groups of writers just mentioned, Cappa produces noir pictures of people, their motivations, their fates in the grip of a vast machine. The results are expressions of a world turned upside down, a movement from nation and its people to an international golden hand, invisible and lethal, every bit as harrowing as that of the enemies of spirituality the prophets of the messianic religions once spoke of. Cappa is very good at setting forth the intricate games the agents of the American, Chinese, and Russian militant states play with each other, and the ordinary people who pay for their weird symbiosis.In Confessions of a Hit Man, the “top of the tree” as the hit man, the Royal Marine-trained Jack, put it, is blistered: the national and multinational networks, the CIAs and MI5s, the Irguns, and the KGBs. This kind of organization, its deceptions and the money it siphons off from the people, is delineated in all its power. So is Jack, who acquired a double who seems to absorb him. Watch for that as a problem Cappa’s Con Maknazpy has to solve, or begin to.The Constant Gardener shows how the international pharmaceutical industry uses people living in poverty, countries which benefit from its profits, and sociopathic hit men to deliver its products. The Prone Gunman is about an agent serving his country by killing opponents of its own supra-national brand of international terrorism. It ends with his “writing” his memoir (actually, his employers write it for him). That becomes his identity. Assuming, in his sleep, the prone position, he is himself become a kind of drone. If Con read this “memoir”, or Manchette’s yarn, he would probably go mad in recognition, if that is possible. That might also happen if he read Point Omega. Even terrorism (drones, suicide bombers, mall shootings, shock and awe) takes a back seat to the kind of torture which the victim is made to inflict on himself. Point Omega is about a moment when humanity reaches a will, not to evolve, but to regress into the pure death instinct that drives modern weapons and surveillance systems as well as psychological immersion in cant (“terrorism”, “counter-insurgency”, “extremism”). Delillo’s Richard Elster is an earlier version, like Burroughs’ Dr Benway, of Cappa’s 21st century mad scientist Dr Blake. The ultimate 21st century heroism is to struggle for the control of one’s own destiny. Con Maknazpy’s struggle is an example. He is not destroyed but potentially redeemed by his own sin and suffering. With some kind of inner, spiritual voice inside his head, he forces his humanity to come to life. He is a kind of Hercules, who back in Shakespeare’s time (as Coriolanus) was admired as a ubermensch-like natural force: proud, without any desire other than to survive honorably without compromise. Con is modeled on the Irish hero Cú Chulainn, a kind of Golem when he cannot know friend from foe in his battle-frenzy. Con is intensely human, however, and on a search for his father. The conversation when he finds him is a kind of denouement.Cappa’s originality, in comparison to the masters of the political noir, is his adopting the conventions of the classic pulp crime novels of the 1940s and 50s. One of those is the use of violence as a defining characteristic of noir. The first chapter describes a man Cora has blown into “mist”; on the last page a still-bleeding corpse has a welcoming post card attached with a knife between its shoulder blades. In between, Con makes enemies bleed on two continents. Maknazpy is a skilled warrior, which is why h...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Black Boat Dancing (Con Maknazpy, #2). To get started finding Black Boat Dancing (Con Maknazpy, #2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Foreword by Jay A GertzmanWriters from Chandler and Hammett through Willeford, Elroy, and Bret Easton Ellis have shown how the administration of cities is not corrupt, not a distortion of a moral norm, but inherently predatory. The depredation makes individuals themselves paranoiac and desperate. The 20th century industrial city has been replaced as the subject of political thrillers by corporate forces and international monetary policies to which nations, their spy agencies, military bureaucracies, and fossil fuel oligarchies are subservient. Jean-Patrick Manchette (The Prone Gunman), Don DeLillo (Point Omega), John Le Carré (The Constant Gardener) and Richard Godwin (Confessions of a Hit Man) write about these forces and the various forms of isolation and anxiety people suffer due to their influence. They are transgressive for the same reason writers about the urban streets of no return were. There is no return to order at the end of these stories, for there is no moral consensus possible. There cannot be any return to innocence, for it did not exist in the first place. Beyond the glitter of upscale consumerism, the billions of dollars lost and found in the fog of war, the complex struggles for advantage between American, Chinese, Russian, and Eurozone operatives, the texture of life is sinister.It is especially so in Gerard Cappa’s Black Boat Dancing and Blood from a Shadow. Like both groups of writers just mentioned, Cappa produces noir pictures of people, their motivations, their fates in the grip of a vast machine. The results are expressions of a world turned upside down, a movement from nation and its people to an international golden hand, invisible and lethal, every bit as harrowing as that of the enemies of spirituality the prophets of the messianic religions once spoke of. Cappa is very good at setting forth the intricate games the agents of the American, Chinese, and Russian militant states play with each other, and the ordinary people who pay for their weird symbiosis.In Confessions of a Hit Man, the “top of the tree” as the hit man, the Royal Marine-trained Jack, put it, is blistered: the national and multinational networks, the CIAs and MI5s, the Irguns, and the KGBs. This kind of organization, its deceptions and the money it siphons off from the people, is delineated in all its power. So is Jack, who acquired a double who seems to absorb him. Watch for that as a problem Cappa’s Con Maknazpy has to solve, or begin to.The Constant Gardener shows how the international pharmaceutical industry uses people living in poverty, countries which benefit from its profits, and sociopathic hit men to deliver its products. The Prone Gunman is about an agent serving his country by killing opponents of its own supra-national brand of international terrorism. It ends with his “writing” his memoir (actually, his employers write it for him). That becomes his identity. Assuming, in his sleep, the prone position, he is himself become a kind of drone. If Con read this “memoir”, or Manchette’s yarn, he would probably go mad in recognition, if that is possible. That might also happen if he read Point Omega. Even terrorism (drones, suicide bombers, mall shootings, shock and awe) takes a back seat to the kind of torture which the victim is made to inflict on himself. Point Omega is about a moment when humanity reaches a will, not to evolve, but to regress into the pure death instinct that drives modern weapons and surveillance systems as well as psychological immersion in cant (“terrorism”, “counter-insurgency”, “extremism”). Delillo’s Richard Elster is an earlier version, like Burroughs’ Dr Benway, of Cappa’s 21st century mad scientist Dr Blake. The ultimate 21st century heroism is to struggle for the control of one’s own destiny. Con Maknazpy’s struggle is an example. He is not destroyed but potentially redeemed by his own sin and suffering. With some kind of inner, spiritual voice inside his head, he forces his humanity to come to life. He is a kind of Hercules, who back in Shakespeare’s time (as Coriolanus) was admired as a ubermensch-like natural force: proud, without any desire other than to survive honorably without compromise. Con is modeled on the Irish hero Cú Chulainn, a kind of Golem when he cannot know friend from foe in his battle-frenzy. Con is intensely human, however, and on a search for his father. The conversation when he finds him is a kind of denouement.Cappa’s originality, in comparison to the masters of the political noir, is his adopting the conventions of the classic pulp crime novels of the 1940s and 50s. One of those is the use of violence as a defining characteristic of noir. The first chapter describes a man Cora has blown into “mist”; on the last page a still-bleeding corpse has a welcoming post card attached with a knife between its shoulder blades. In between, Con makes enemies bleed on two continents. Maknazpy is a skilled warrior, which is why h...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Black Boat Dancing (Con Maknazpy, #2). To get started finding Black Boat Dancing (Con Maknazpy, #2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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