特別推薦：特色詞匯紅寶書   Author: Minette Walters List Price: $24 Pages: 368 Publisher:  Knopf ISBN: 0307264629          | Book description | With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. In the wake of a vicious civil war that saw hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the rape and murder of women is of little consequence. And who cares if child soldiers are beaten into a confession? With little to go on, except her witnessing of a savage attack on a prostitute, Connie believes that a foreigner is responsible. A man who claims to have been in the SAS and works as a bodyguard to a Lebanese diamond trader. She remembers him from Kinshasa when he was a mercenary for Laurent Kabila's regime, and she suspects he uses the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women. Two years later in Iraq, the consequences of her second attempt to expose him are devastating. Terrified, degraded and destroyed, she goes into hiding in England and tries to rebuild the person she was before being subjected to three days of conditioning in a Baghdad cellar... 魔鬼的羽毛（典故源自土耳其）——引起男性遐想而不自覺的女人；挑逗性欲的不智之舉。 你是否曾經想深深埋藏一個秘密，不讓任何人發現？ 獅子山有五名女性被殘暴殺害，路透社的特派記者康妮·柏恩斯，對三名叛軍被指為兇手心存疑慮，但沒人把她的話當一回事。在經歷數十萬人死亡與流離失所的慘烈內戰后，婦女被強暴和殺害的案件根本微不足道。即使少年士兵被屈打成招，有誰在乎？誰又會注意到外籍傭兵中，出現了一名性變態狂。 除了親眼目睹一名妓女遭受野蠻攻擊外，康妮幾乎沒有其他的證據，但她認為一個自稱曾在空降特勤隊服役過的男子就是兇手。她記得在今夏沙見過他，當時他是羅倫·卡比拉政權旗下的傭兵，她懷疑這名男子趁戰亂，對當地婦女實施了強暴。 兩年后在伊拉克，她第二次嘗試揭發兇手，結果卻非常不堪。她拖著受傷破碎的身心，惶惶不可終日的躲到英格蘭，卻在那和潔思·德比夏結為好友。獨來獨往的潔思過著隱士般的生活，可能她也隱瞞了許多秘密。康妮在潔思身上發現了共通點，于是借助好友的力量，決定放手一搏，第三度揭發連續殺人兇手的真面目…… About Author Born in Bishop's Stortford, England, Minette Walters was educated in Salisbury and went to Durham University where she read French and German. She then became magazine editor as well as a romance novelist. In 1992 she turned to murder and was immediately very successful: her first crime novel won the John Creasey award in 1992 for best first crime novel. Her next two novels also won awards: The Sculptress won the 1994 Macavity and Edgar Awards for Best Novel; The Scold's Bridle won the Gold Dagger also in 1994. 有“懸疑小說女王”之稱的米涅·渥特絲﹙Minette Walters﹚1949年生于英國，1992年開始嘗試懸疑推理小說寫作，其處女作《冰屋》獲當年英國推理作家協會年度最佳新作大獎，次年她的第二本懸疑小說《女雕刻家》一舉榮獲美國推理作家協會愛倫·坡獎，1994年推出的《毒舌鉤》又摘取了英國推理作家協會金匕首獎。 點擊查看更多LT推薦