The awful spectre of invertebrate decline looms over the world, and nature's antagonist isn't a secret organisation, Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, but something far more deadly: man's overconsumption of the planet's resources.
A loosely formed mass of plastic paraphernalia stretches from the beaches of Santa Monica, all the way across the Pacific Ocean, the other end of this unwieldy but deadly man made monster reaching the eastern Chinese coast.
And they starved: the Great Leap Forward was the direct cause of the famine that killed 30 million people, among the deadliest man-made disasters in history.
As told in Herbert Asbury's book "Gangs of New York," upon which the movie is loosely based, Bill Poole, a real butcher by trade, was considered the deadliest man in the very deadly Bowery.
He is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.
Living – with the likes of Dating in the Dark and Most Haunted – is aimed at young women while Bravo with Spartacus and Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men pulls in young men.
He's a deadly, one-man wrecking crew in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a handsome desperado to boot.
Look, guys, this is deadly earnest, man.
"The calamity of the cyder drinker is put away; the deadly excise man shall appear no more in our quarters".
