Posted on 07/30/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by weston
“The murder has inspired plays, novels, non-fiction books, and films including Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures.”
Well, we’ve been missing out, apparently! LOL
I was reading this blurb from one of the books available from my library; it was published in 2017:
In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques—lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry.
In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London’s Hungarian community in search of clues but finds his inquiries stymied by its wary citizens and a language he doesn’t speak. Only with the help of a local pharmacist acting as translator can Monk hope to penetrate this tightly knit enclave, even as more of its members fall victim to identical brutal murders. But whoever the killer, or killers, may be—a secret society practicing ritual sacrifice, a madman on a spree, a British native targeting foreigners—they are well hidden among the city’s ever-growing populace.
With the able assistance of his wife—former battlefield nurse Hester, who herself is dealing with a traumatized war veteran who may be tangled up in the murders—Monk must combat distrust, hostility, and threats from the very people he seeks to protect. But as the body count grows, stirring ever greater fear and anger among the Hungarian émigrés, resistance to the police also increases. Racing time and the rising tide of terror all around him, Monk must be even more relentless than the mysterious killer, or the echoes of malice and murder will resound through London’s streets like a clarion of doom.
Praise for An Echo of Murder
“[Anne] Perry fashions a rich, if blood-spattered narrative from this chapter of history. As the murders [of Hungarians] continue, Monk and his clever wife, Hester . . . struggle to fathom the new climate of hatred. ‘I think it’s fear,’ Hester says. ‘It’s fear of ideas, things that aren’t the way you’re used to. Everyone you don’t understand because their language is different, their food, but above all their religion.’ How times haven’t changed.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Skillful . . . Perry smoothly intertwines themes—war’s lingering cost, tension around immigration and otherness—that challenge in both her period and our own.”—Publishers Weekly
Just what I need....a woke mystery novel. 🙄
Joe Biden’s defeat will echo for eternity: Devine
By Miranda Devine
August 15, 2021
The scenes out of Afghanistan are infuriating and tragically predictable.
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that President Biden and the geniuses surrounding him have made such an almighty hash of the withdrawal from that godforsaken country.
Look at everything else he has messed up.
His first act in office was to dismantle hard-won Trump-era border protection measures. The inevitable illegal migrant surge at the southern border has turned into an unchecked invasion, with national security and public health risks that will ricochet through history.
At this stage, we can confidently say that Joe Biden has the reverse Midas touch.
In Afghanistan, it didn’t have to be like this.
The humiliating scenes of Americans evacuating from Kabul’s airport were avoidable, as is the specter of American helicopters, planes, Humvees, weapons and ammunition in the hands of our enemies.
But Biden was caught unawares.
Then he had the gall on Saturday to blame President Donald Trump: “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has bungled the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This is Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment
Since Secretary of State Antony Blinken doubled down over the weekend on this dishonest spin, it’s time for some home truths.
I asked Trump Sunday about the plan his administration had to get out of Afghanistan —which ultimately was obstructed by the same US generals who gave Biden a green light.
“We were going to not let people get slaughtered,” Trump said flatly. “I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect …
“We had all sorts of conditions … All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out …
“I was going to close this ridiculous embassy they spent a billion dollars on and move everybody out …
“I was going to blow up every military base [before we left]. I was going to take out every single piece of equipment. I said, ‘I don’t want anything left [apart from] leave each soldier a gun …’
“Plus, I had a relationship with the Taliban where they knew they weren’t allowed to do this. They understood they were going to get hit very hard … What I had was conversations with the [Taliban] leadership where I said, ‘If you do anything,’ we were going to hit them like they haven’t been hit before.”
Trump said the Taliban “no longer has fear or respect for America …
“It’s a terrible, terrible black eye for this country.
“We’re a laughingstock. The whole world can’t believe it.
“And there was no reason for it.”
Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who began negotiating with the Taliban in February 2020 to lay down conditions for a US withdrawal, has corroborated Trump’s version of events.
Pompeo was in the room when Trump warned the Taliban’s senior negotiator, Mullah Baradar, that if a single American was hurt or threatened, the entire wrath of American power would rain down on them.
“We never trusted the Taliban,” he told Fox News Sunday. “We made abundantly clear … we weren’t going to allow them to just walk away from any deal that they had struck. We were going to go crush them, we were going to impose real costs on them. We weren’t going to let them take these provincial capitals. They understood that American power was going to come to their village, to their community, to their friends and family.”
You can bet the Taliban believed Trump would make good on his threat.
Meanwhile, where was Biden while Kabul fell? Silent. Having another holiday at Camp David. The White House tweeted out a still photo of him taking notes while watching a video conference of his national security team. Very reassuring.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/15/joe-bidens-defeat-will-echo-for-eternity-devine/
Meanwhile In Iraq... Islamic State Attacks Kirkuk Oil Field
A recent report by VOA News cited intelligence agencies as saying that the terrorist group remained resilient and ready to spring back out when the U.S. implemented its plans to “recede deep into the background.”
“The group has evolved into an entrenched insurgency, exploiting weaknesses in local security to find safe havens and targeting forces engaged in counter-ISIL operations,” a report by the UN sanctions monitoring team said.
“Attacks in Baghdad in January and April 2021 underscore the group’s resilience despite heavy counter-terrorism pressure from Iraqi authorities,” the report also said. Islamic State “is likely to continue attacking civilians and other soft targets in the capital whenever possible to garner media attention and embarrass the Government of Iraq.”
Based on what we are currently witnessing happening in Afghanistan, the deeper in the background the U.S. recedes, the more emboldened IS will become, which could mean more attacks on oil fields in the oil-rich Kirkuk region. This would interfere with OPEC’s second-largest exporter of crude with plans to boost its production considerably once the OPEC+ agreement expires.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/meanwhile-iraq-islamic-state-attacks-kirkuk-oil-field
Sounds like the reviewers are woke at least, no surprise from the NYT.
What was the title of that novel? It doesn’t sound familiar, it must be one of her later ones that I haven’t read
Nothing has changed for me on twitter but I have an account.
Nasty has put out talking points to the dims on Afghanistan,
Wonder if she gave them to the LSM too.
She blocked the pubbies from asking questions during the briefing from Blinken, Austin and Milley.
Tried calling Ted’s office.....just got a recording....and, ‘that mailbox is full’.
Full of what? N/v.....we know!
These Reps sit behind their desks and DO NOTHING for their constituents.
It’s a pretty big club, and we’re not in it.
RAIN!! Wonderful!
I thought we would get some this morning as it was cool and overcast but the sun came out and it warmed up.
The day isn’t over yet and it still could happen.
Always hopeful!
Almost like we've regressed 5-10 years.
I'm waiting for a Jihadi terror attack on US soil & then another Middle East war to start. Because, you know, we have to secure the oil fields, and spread democracy to those longing for it.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Oh, and don’t forget...we have to oversee free & fair elections in the Middle East.
Oh my, Nasty’s power strangle she has the dims seems to be slipping.
I sent Cruz a “thank you” e-mail a couple of days ago.
When I got done I realized it wasn’t his Senate e-mail.
I’m not sure what the heck it was.
“Always hopeful!”
I thought of you when the rain started. I was hoping you would get some. Looks like it is all over here, I guess that’s why there was a flash flood warning, just a quick and sudden downpour.
Let me try that again......
Nasty’s power strangle she has OVER the dims seems to be slipping.
I love it!
We had more of a lightening storm yesterday evening with a tiny bit of rain.
Lots of FLASHES and KABOOMS!
The rest of Devine’s article.....
The American people wanted out of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, but they had a right to expect the exit would be managed competently.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Blinken on Sunday why the Biden administration didn’t evacuate people before withdrawing the military.
It’s a question, said Tapper, “of how poorly this was done. The idea that President Biden ordered 2,500 service members out and now is sending up to 5,000 service members back in [to evacuate people left behind], does that not on its face show that the exit was inadequately planned?”
Blinken simply had no answer. He kept trying either to blame Trump or pretend that the only alternative to this self-inflicted debacle was a forever war.
How inane Biden’s conceit looks now, when he was wandering around the G-7 in June telling anyone who would listen that “America is back” and that he had single-handedly restored America’s global leadership and credibility after Trump had ruined it.
He has just been busy making us less safe. He is wokifying the military, injecting the poison of critical race theory and transgender ideology to divide the troops, while launching a witch hunt to identify some mythical “enemy within.”
It seems like only yesterday that Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was barking at a Republican member of Congress about “white rage.”
This lawless, feckless administration has wreaked untold damage at warp speed in seven months. These aren’t mistakes that you can bounce back from. They will have ramifications well into the future.
LauraLoomer
@LauraLoomer
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How can Democrats like Nancy Pelosi claim they are worried about the women in Afghanistan being brutalized under Sharia Law by the Taliban when the Democrat Party has elevated Sharia compliant Muslim women like Ilhan Omar to the Foreign Affairs committee in Congress?
Ilhan Omar’s use of the hijab is evidence that she is sharia adherent.
Congress has become a joke.
They don’t care about the women in Afghanistan.
Looks dead to me
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