You Only Die Twice
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Virgil.
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Excerpt:
“From Manhattan with Revenge”
Psychopath
:
A person suffering from chronic mental
disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.
Serial killer
:
An individual who has killed three or
more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a “cooling off
period”) between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based
on psychological gratification.
Fanatic
:
A peron with an extreme and uncritical
enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
“I was only following God’s
orders.”
―
Joseph Kallinger
, who murdered three
people and tortured four families along with his 13-year-old son Michael.
“I believe the only way to
reform people is to kill them.”
―
Carl Panzram
, who committed twenty-two
murders and sodomized over one thousand males.
“Whoever, then, thinks that
he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an
interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God
and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.”
―
Saint
Augustine of Hippo
“The Bible is a wonderful
source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.”
―
George
Santayana
YOU ONL
Y DIE TWICE
A
Thriller
By
Christopher Smith
CHAPTER
ONE
At
first, all she was aware of was a cold
wetness against her cheek and explosions of
light along the periphery of her vision.
She could hear someone talking to her―a man―but she couldn’t
understand what he was saying.
She felt
her body being jolted.
Kicked.
Punched.
Her head
hurt.
There
was blood in her mouth.
And
something else.
Something thick and
round, which made it difficult for her to breathe.
Her left
leg began to twitch.
The
flashes of light continued until the pain in her head became too much for her
to bear.
Something
was shoved into her right hand.
She
felt her fingers being closed around it and then, somehow, the object was
attached to her hand.