Andrej Koscuisko, Chief Medical Officer and Judicial Inquisitor has been reassigned from the ship Scylla to Domitt prison. Continuing to struggle between his unholy desires and the demands of honor and his conscience, Andrej uncovers far more than even he expected to find. A story of the betrayal of justice and human dignity, Prisoner of Conscience contiues the tale of Andrej Ulexeievich Koschuisko; healer, torturer, and tortured soul.
The protagonist is Andrej Koscuisko. His external conflict is with the Administrator of Domitt prison over the cruel treatment of the inmates. I think the author got a little scared of her protagonist, Andrej, as this book did not have the same drive or coherency as An Exchange of Hostages, her first piece. Note: Andrej is not the first person on stage.
Alice Austen, a young pathologist for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, diagnoses more than a simple drug overdose when she performs her autopsy on Kate Moran. A killer is lose in New York City and its up to Alice and the Reachdeep team of the FBI's Hazaradous Materials Response Center to stop him, and it. Richard Preston, author of The Cobra Event, gives us a chilling, fictional, presentation of an all too real potential threat in today's world, bioterrorism.
The protagonist is Alice Austen. Her external conflict is to stop the killer and save the world. This book was quite interesting for its subject matter, however the fictional tecnique was not first class, even though it did make the best seller list. Note: Alice Austen is not the first person on stage.
The Marquis de Sade, played by Patrick McGee, has written a play for his fellow inmates of the Charenton sanitarium to improve their health and convince the Director of Charenton, who has come to watch the play, the bars of the asylum are pointless and unecessary. The Marquis, through his play about the murder of Jean-Paul Marat and his words to the director and his family, shows his audience they are all insane and should be in the asylum with himself and his fellows. Set against the backdrop of the rise of Napoleon, the insanity of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror imediately prior, this film paints a detailed picture of the boundary between the healthy mind and the insane and how very thin that line can be, particularly in times of unheaval and revolution. This disturbing film is a must see for anyone interested in the nature of man.
The protagonist is the Marquis de Sade. His external conflict is with the Director of Charenton to convince the Director to remove the bars of the asylum as there is no point in separating the mad from the other people of Revolutionary France. This plot is only the simplest, most accessable plot in the film. The numerous sub-plots and themes in this film make it a rich viewing experience no matter how many times you have seen it. The full title of the original work by Peter Weiss is actually The Persecution and Assasination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of Monsieur de Sade, and was written in German.
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