Fatal Impact

Fatal Impact
Author: Leahanna Cooper
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595149324

Confused and estranged by the death of her parents, goaded by bizarre, persistent and cryptic messages from beyond the grave, lovely heiress Cassandra McCain engulfed in turmoil, journeys into a darkened abyss in the weeks following their funeral. As Casey unwittingly succumbs to the treacherous and volatile dialogue of Theadore Groveland, longtime associate attorney of her father Jim McCain, family and friends begin to doubt her sanity. Using acts of Santanic ritual and communication, Ted manages to completely engulf Casey in supernatural mysticism, duping her into believing that his messiah, Satan, is her mother. When he and his ammoral assembly of baneful postulants make intimate contact with Casey, she is catapulted into his world via the practice of evil. This camouflages her sights of what is real, leaving her with psychological scars that would take more than two years to mend. Sometimes witty, brazen, romantic and often shocking, even terrifying in its implications, "FATAL IMPACT" is ingeniously creative and focuses a new light on secretive cult societies and the brutal domination of naive innocence.

Fatal Influence

Fatal Influence
Author: Kevin Matthews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Fatal Influence" challenges and revises many widely held assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has been realized. Kevin Matthews places the settlement of the Irish Question in the 1920s within the broader context of a revolution then taking place in British politics and shows how each affected the other. In a detailed investigation, he explores the Irish partition and the often conflicting motives that led to this momentous decision. Far from solving the Irish Question, dividing the country into two parts merely created what one politician at the time called its "elements of dynamite". These explosive elements were thrown into an already unstable political situation in Britain, with three political parties - Liberals, Conservatives, and Labour - all vying for a place in that nation's traditional two-party system. The book brings together some of the most colourful characters of 20th-century British and Irish history, from Winston Churchill and Michael Collins to David Lloyd George and Eamon de Valera.Looming behind is Sir James Craig, the rock-like embodiment of Ulster Unionism. But this story of "high politics" also involves men whose careers are not normally associated with the Irish conflict, figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain and, even, Oswald Mosley and Anthony Eden.