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Description
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“We're all still running, according to Kreizler - in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil doors, away from the nightmares that contineu to be injected into children's skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in even grater numbers toward those potions, powders, preists, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”
John Schuyler Moore
First Sentence
Theodore is dead.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 1 in the Alienist series.
Authors & Contributors
- Caleb Carr (Author)
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