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"A successful male fashion model is sent to Europe to find a female model (and former girlfriend) he went to college with. He is offered $300k to bring her back to the US. Events take all kinds of unexpected turns,"
Kathy Parsons, Resident Scholar
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"Victor is an up-an-coming model/actor dating a supermodel and opening a hot new club. His world falls apart when a mysterious figure sends him to Europe to find a former girlfriend who has disappeared. He becomes immersed in a web of terrorism and deceit, and he must stay cool in order to escape with his life."
Beth Hoffman, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
- very humorous
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Spying/Terrorism Thriller
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- deposing an evil leader
- preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Who's the terrorist enemy here?
- evil subgroup in own govt
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here?
- drug dealers
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- an organization
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
- an average amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
- insanity
The antagonists are:
- foreign organized crime
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
- Italy
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths?
- hundreds or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- orgies
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- descript. of breasts
- descript. of other female areas
- descript. of male nudity
- homosexuals doing their thing
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- military technology
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- run over
- crushed
- flamed
- drowned
- impaled
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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