The Eighth Day (2002)


For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic lawyer, Jude Belzer, would like to retain Danny for a little damage control. His client, an elusive billionaire named Zerevan Zebek, is the target of a vicious campaign in the Italian press that threatens to destroy his reputation. Belzer wants Danny to find out who is responsible –-- and he will pay handsomely.

Danny’s only lead is the meager estate of a recently deceased professor of religious studies, a man so deeply terrified that he buried himself alive in the basement of his isolated farmhouse. And the more Danny probes, the more apparent it becomes that nothing is what it seems.  From the powerful world of Washington to the grandeur of Rome, from the mysteries of Istanbul to the high-stakes drama of Silicon Valley, Danny is embroiled in a conspiracy as dark as the far side of the Moon.

"Short-listed for the Hammet Prize!"

  
"Deliciously sinister...a breakneck yarn of good
vs. evil."  People (Page-turner of the Week)
  
"John Case has outdone himself. The Eighth Day
is a harrowing novel of suspense...that plunges a clever, ingenuous, and engaging young man into a web of mystery and international deceit."  Tampa Tribune

"Readers of John Grisham, James Patterson, and
Robert Ludlum will find Case right up their alley...  (He) is all about pace.  it's as if the word 'relentless' were invented just for him."  BookPage


Parameters of Evil:

http://turkey.rdricketts.com/uncity.html

http://www.hitit.co.uk/tosee/cappy/ucities.html

The greatest (and cruelist) horserace in the world.

http://www.premier.net/~Italy/palio.htm

The Yezidi.

http://altreligion.about.com/library/faqs/bl_yezidism.htm



Itsy-Bitsy Spider.

http://crnano.org/


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