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The Wheel of Darkness By Douglas Preston , & Lincoln Child (c) 2007; Mass Paperback released July 2008 Vision 492p FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery,...
According to a recent article in Variety, United Artists and Tom Cruise have acquired rights to the true-crime thriller The Monster of Florence. Those rights include Cruise as the producer and possible star of the yet-to-be made flick. Not familiar with it? This story chronicles the search of the author, Douglas Preston, who actually took [...]
London, Sep 8 (IANS) Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise’s United Artists film studio has acquired the rights to Douglas Preston’s serial killer story “The Monster of Florence” at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Cruise is attached to produce and possibly star in the thriller, according to author Preston, reports Hollywood.com. “It’s the biggest movie deal in [...]
Well it looks like there’s more Tom Cruise news going around this week, and once again it could possibly be interpreted as an attempt to reinvent himself and his image in the public eye. According to Variety, Cruise’s production company United Artists has picked up the rights to Douglas Preston’s book The Monster of Florence, [...]
Tom Cruise and United Artists have picked up the rights to The Monster of Florece , which is billed as a "serial-killer thriller." Douglas Preston , who wrote the book, says that Cruise will produce and may even star in the movie version. The book was based on real-life events that were reconstructed by the author. All told 8 murder that occurred in Florence from 1968 to 1995 are at the heart of the...
Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired the rights to the Douglas Preston book The Monster of Florence. Cruise is attached to the project to produce and possibly to star in it. Preston and Italo journo Mario Spezi told Corriere della Sera they have inked with UA for a big-screen adaptation of their reconstruction of eight grisly double homicides believed to have [...]
Tom Cruise will produce and possibly star in an adaptation of Douglas Preston’s non-fiction bestseller, The Monster of Florence, for his studio United Artists. When Preston relocated his family to Italy in 2000, he soon became aware of a nearby murder committed years ago by the region’s serial killer, the Monster of Florence. Intrigued, he [...]
[Caution: Spoilers from the word go} I read all of the Preston and Cloud books although I often find myself frustrated by the complete rationalism of them. Everything that appears supernatural is undone and shown to be a perfectly natural, albeit heinous and diabolically clever ruse of one sort of another. There were intimations in Wheel of Darkness that they may have moved a little from their rationalist...
I have a barn full of books, perhaps a thousand, most likely more. From Asimov to Zane Grey. I have neither the time nor inclination to review them, but in keeping with the cybersphere’s response to the decline in book reviews by the mainstream press, I’ll share my reads for July and August. Bear in [...]
by J.T. Ellison For the two hundred and thirty-second time, we celebrate our independence today. Independence from tyranny, from oppression, from religious persecution. We celebrate our rights to free speech, revel in the joys of living in a nation that...
What happens when you take a prim and proper duchess and introduce her to one of the country's most notoriously scandalous rogues? You get a deliciously scandalous romance, of course.
"The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport" by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, $22). The Florida writer follows up last year's best-selling comic novel "Nature Girl" with a hilarious memoir about golf.
Chert, flint, agate, and glassy rock can flake to a cutting edge only a few atoms thick. Prehistoric people made long oval knives of this surpassing sharpness, and made them, wittingly, too fragile to use. Some people—Homo sapiens—lived in a sub-freezing open-air camp in central France about eighteen thousand years ago. We call their ambitious culture Solutrean; it lasted only about three
