The New York literary world is a fetid, putrid swamp, cloistered off from the rest of America, as inbred as the Hapsburg Empire in the 19th century.
April 11 was a Saturday night and they are always the most volatile in Nguiu, capital of the Tiwi Islands, twin full stops of sand and swamp 26 miles off the coast of Darwin, north Australia.
On August 9 , 1942 Gedeon was flying as the navigator in a B-25 that crashed in the middle of a swamp on take off from the municipal airport at Raleigh, North Carolina.
A bug-obsessed teen-ager known as "the Insect Boy drags two women into the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, setting off a pulse-raising manhunt whose cunning twists confound even Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic criminalist who directs the chase from his snazzy red wheelchair.
A bug-obsessed teenager known as the Insect Boy drags two women into the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, setting off a pulse-raising manhunt whose cunning twists confound even Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic criminalist who directs the chase from his snazzy red wheelchair.
While the notion of damage wrought by petrochemicals and the chain of consumption is not a new one, it gains potency with images of swamps fenced off as toxic waste sites and maps depicting the spread of dead zones as channels dug for oil pipes funnel saltwater into freshwater wetland systems.
Once he's on the boat, he starts pushing people off, claiming they'll "swamp it".
