"It is a very basic human phenomenon that we have social bonds, and that we break them," said Dr. Malin Akerstrom, a sociologist at the University of Lund in Sweden who is the author of "Betrayal and Betrayers: The Sociology of Treachery".
His previous books—a collection of short stories and "The Free World", a novel have probed similar themes to "The Betrayers": exile, immigration and identity, especially of Russian Jews.
In the old East Germany, officials had a list of terms to describe Britons: "paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators, arch-cowards and collaborators".
Among those volumes were The Predators (1998), Heat of Passion (2003), and The Betrayers (2004).
When Dantès is imprisoned as a young sailor because of the treachery of four acquaintances, he spends the rest of his life plotting and then carrying out plans for revenge against his betrayers.
"They now consider us betrayers and we are cut off from their lives, but we know they are well-intentioned," said Megan.
For them, the ethical issues of the war have long been settled, and the characters, both craven and heroic, can now be relished as fools — the betrayers forgiven as all too human, the heroes nostalgically caressed for their youth and recklessness.
His eyes, those betrayers, shifted to the right and there was the electric-green warning — 3 15.
By October, those in the stands may well be calling, by habit, for the heads of hypocrites, betrayers, and latecomers.
