Book Review: Grave Instinct
By Robert W Walker
A Jessica Coran Mystery
© 2003
Grave Instinct
Jessica Coran is a Medical Examiner for the FBI, working out of the Quantico office. She is known for her work tracking and capturing serial killers.
In this installment, Jessica is involved with a serial killer known as the "Skull-Digger.” Enthralled by a website created by a prior grave robber [Cahill] who would rob fresh graves of young children, decapitate the cadaver and then eat a portion of the brain, where he felt the soul was hidden, Grant Kenyon becomes overtaken by al altar personality, Phillip, who takes the fascination with the website one step farther.
Phillip overpowers Grant during autopsies, eating not just the Rheil Island, as Cahill instructs, but the entire brain. An incident at the morgue, involving Kenyon and a missing brain, leaves Kenyon without a job and without the means by which to feed Phillip.
Fearing for the safety of his wife and child, Kenyon strikes out alone, equipped with a van in which he has set-up a means to handcuff and shackle his victim, and another vise like object to hold their heads in place so that he can use a bone saw to cut off the top of their heads and spoon out their brains. He carries a laptop computer with remote wireless Internet service so that he can contact others from the Cahill site, people who he ultimately expects to make his victim.
Although the FBI targets Cahill, Jessica feels that; while there may be a connection, Cahill is not the Skull-Digger. Once Cahill is in custody and the killing spree continues, the FBI rethinks their strategy, until they realize that Jessica Coran has not disclosed the fact that a vital etching left in the skulls of the former victims is no longer available.
There are tons of twists and turns during the search for the killer, including law enforcement persons who seem to become hypnotized by Cahill’s theory and begin to experiment while tracking the killer.
Despite the gory details, this is a book that makes you want to read more. It even has an ending that bags for a sequel. I highly suggest Grave Instinct.
Nickolas Perry's and Harry Thomason's
The Hunting of a President
based on a novel by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons
The Hunting of the President, based on a book by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons [The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton] is a documentary on the hunting of President William J Clinton by the Republican Party. Although the interviews have a tendency to be a bit one-sided, this documentary does give you a good idea of what was going on behind the scenes, and how much the American tax payers were forced to pay for this private campaign. For those who wonder why we cannot afford to pay for programs to help the elderly and the poor, or why there is such a huge problem with Social Security, maybe this documentary would open your eyes; eighty million dollars went towards this witch-hunt! Unfortunately, what this documentary is showing is that justice in the United States has been turned into a plaything for the rich and powerful.
There is also insight into our correctional program, especially for women. From past research, I will admit that ninety percent of all incarcerated women deserve to be prison. I have noted that judges seem to be more lenient in sentencing women over sentencing men for similar crimes. However, if you happen to be a ‘Political Prisoner' your incarceration will be worsened. An interview with Susan McDougal, [from the Whitewater Scandal] verified everything that I had learned during previous research on the subject. Her story also verifies a frightening aspect of life in America today; ‘don’t stand in the way of the government, don’t cross the government and do not speak your mind if you value your freedom.’
The film tells us little about what was accomplished during the Clinton Era as far as domestic and international policy. What it does tell us, in horrifying reality is that the Republicans feel that poor people are poor because that is the way they want to be, people without medical insurance that cannot afford to pay for a policy should work three jobs, that the education of our children is unimportant, the important thing to the Republicans running our country is to spend eighty million dollars to make a President that they do not want in office, confess to having had oral sex, to humiliate him, his family and the American people in the eyes of the world as retribution for not allowing the Republicans to have it their way!
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