Saturday, 20 December 2014,03:03
Second summary for novel.
This is a novel from Cody Mcfadyen named Shadow Man.
The narrator, Smoky Barrett, a special agent from the FBI who searched serial killers and was the best from the team. It all ends until a heartless madman broke into her house, killed her husband and daughter, yet left her face scarred and her soul brutalized.
Special Agent Smoky survived through the hectic situation by shooting the killer, but with her whole life shattered forever.
Smoky has given up on life and wishes to pick up her weapon one last time. She wishes to feel the cold steel between her two lips and pull the trigger for one last time feeling she had nothing else to lose.
The novel tells about a brilliant serial murderer who calls himself "Jack Jr." after the name of The Jack Ripper. He knows everything about Barrett and intimately familiar with the incident that caused Smoky to be scarred forever deep inside and outside her body. Jack Jr. commits an unspeakable act to get her out of the house and back on the job, and then proceeds to go after her FBI team members in the same manner. He made an infant become motherless and ripped her body apart and left a message for Smoky, a clip, of him torturing the victim. The victim is also her best friend from high school. The clip was enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. The case awakens something inside Smoky that she thought was lost forever.
Smoky and her team has never fought or trace a murderer who is this smart and complicated. He plans a murderer perfectly without leaving any evidence for the FBI team. Jack Jr. directly challenged Special Agent Smoky to find and incarcerate him. With her life on the line, Smoky regularly visits her psychiatrist who seems to know a lot more about her than she ever tells him.
The story than leads to the climax where the FBI team found an underground base of a suspected house, which then tells us that the house belongs to Jack Jr. and that the underground base was his workplace. They also found a diary of him when he was a child which turns out that his dad, was The Jack Ripper and he was taught to inherit his dad's acts of cruelty.
At the end of the novel, the reader will then find out that the Jack Jr. is actually Smoky's psychiatrist whom she never suspected in. Smoky then went into battling Jack Jr in her house, with her teammates, and justice won.
Vocabulary obtained:
- Slaughtered - kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
- Approximately- used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly
- Essence- the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.
- Zingers- a striking or amusing remark.
- Enforcement- the act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation.
- Unflinching- not showing fear or hesitation in the face of danger or difficulty.
- Pigeonholed- assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.
- Flabbergasted- surprise (someone) greatly; astonish.
- Substrata- an underlying layer or substance, in particular a layer of rock or soil beneath the surface of the ground.
- Impassive- not feeling or showing emotion.
- Disgruntled- angry or dissatisfied.
- Banalities- the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
- Reverie- a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
- Pragmatic- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- Grimaced- an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement.
- Precision- the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
- Profundity- great depth of insight or knowledge.
- Scrawny- (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony.
- Reacquainted- make (someone) acquainted or familiar with someone or something again.
- Decipher- convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.
- Goggling- look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement.
- Exultation- a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Brusqueness- markedly short and abrupt
- Agonizing- causing great physical or mental pain.
- Plummeting- fall or drop straight down at high speed.
- Poleaxed- hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe.
- Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
- Hyperventilating- breathe or cause to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide.
- Epithelial- Membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells separated by very little intercellular substance and forming the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs.
- Spectrometry- an analytical chemistry technique that helps identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a sample by measuring the mass-to-charge ratio and abundance of gas-phase ions.
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Saturday, 20 December 2014,03:03
Second summary for novel.
This is a novel from Cody Mcfadyen named Shadow Man.
The narrator, Smoky Barrett, a special agent from the FBI who searched serial killers and was the best from the team. It all ends until a heartless madman broke into her house, killed her husband and daughter, yet left her face scarred and her soul brutalized.
Special Agent Smoky survived through the hectic situation by shooting the killer, but with her whole life shattered forever.
Smoky has given up on life and wishes to pick up her weapon one last time. She wishes to feel the cold steel between her two lips and pull the trigger for one last time feeling she had nothing else to lose.
The novel tells about a brilliant serial murderer who calls himself "Jack Jr." after the name of The Jack Ripper. He knows everything about Barrett and intimately familiar with the incident that caused Smoky to be scarred forever deep inside and outside her body. Jack Jr. commits an unspeakable act to get her out of the house and back on the job, and then proceeds to go after her FBI team members in the same manner. He made an infant become motherless and ripped her body apart and left a message for Smoky, a clip, of him torturing the victim. The victim is also her best friend from high school. The clip was enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. The case awakens something inside Smoky that she thought was lost forever.
Smoky and her team has never fought or trace a murderer who is this smart and complicated. He plans a murderer perfectly without leaving any evidence for the FBI team. Jack Jr. directly challenged Special Agent Smoky to find and incarcerate him. With her life on the line, Smoky regularly visits her psychiatrist who seems to know a lot more about her than she ever tells him.
The story than leads to the climax where the FBI team found an underground base of a suspected house, which then tells us that the house belongs to Jack Jr. and that the underground base was his workplace. They also found a diary of him when he was a child which turns out that his dad, was The Jack Ripper and he was taught to inherit his dad's acts of cruelty.
At the end of the novel, the reader will then find out that the Jack Jr. is actually Smoky's psychiatrist whom she never suspected in. Smoky then went into battling Jack Jr in her house, with her teammates, and justice won.
Vocabulary obtained:
- Slaughtered - kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
- Approximately- used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly
- Essence- the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.
- Zingers- a striking or amusing remark.
- Enforcement- the act of compelling observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation.
- Unflinching- not showing fear or hesitation in the face of danger or difficulty.
- Pigeonholed- assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.
- Flabbergasted- surprise (someone) greatly; astonish.
- Substrata- an underlying layer or substance, in particular a layer of rock or soil beneath the surface of the ground.
- Impassive- not feeling or showing emotion.
- Disgruntled- angry or dissatisfied.
- Banalities- the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
- Reverie- a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.
- Pragmatic- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- Grimaced- an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement.
- Precision- the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
- Profundity- great depth of insight or knowledge.
- Scrawny- (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony.
- Reacquainted- make (someone) acquainted or familiar with someone or something again.
- Decipher- convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.
- Goggling- look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement.
- Exultation- a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Brusqueness- markedly short and abrupt
- Agonizing- causing great physical or mental pain.
- Plummeting- fall or drop straight down at high speed.
- Poleaxed- hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe.
- Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
- Hyperventilating- breathe or cause to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide.
- Epithelial- Membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells separated by very little intercellular substance and forming the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs.
- Spectrometry- an analytical chemistry technique that helps identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a sample by measuring the mass-to-charge ratio and abundance of gas-phase ions.
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