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Your name is John Rainwater. You're an aging and penniless private investigator. You may have killed someone. You and your client are up to your necks in something terrifying. The female spy who is supposed to be keeping you alive may be insane. And tomorrow things could get really bad. It began when the rich and beautiful Morgana Trehane burst into your low-rent office near the New Orleans docks, claiming that she has just escaped from kidnappers who grilled her about something called White Stone, about which she claims to know.norhing. Within 24 hours you and your client are in Miami, where ex-Mossad agent Roni Miller - the most violent woman you ever met - has plunged you into a tangle of lies, greed, and deadly peril. You are vastly out of your depth, the body count is rising, and all you know for certain is that if this operation you've stumbled into fails, you, the lovely Morgana, and everyone else involved will end up in unmarked graves so that people in power can deny that it ever existed. Idiot's Tale is unlike any thriller you've read, a noir parody careening between mordant humor and nihilistic darkness, on its way to an ending that will haunt you. If you're a fan of fast-paced, smart thrillers with a very dark edge, you should read Idiot's Tale. Go ahead. We dare you

To those they anonymously instruct, they are the Teachers, but they call themselves the Banshees, after the grisly Irish specters whose wailing foretells death - appropriately, since death is what they teach. The beautiful, wealthy Russian migr , Nika Varon, and her red-haired Irish consort, Alanna Quinn, travel the world, instructing fellow victims of pedophile rapists in how to safely murder the men who destroyed their childhoods. Their obsession with homicidal vengeance is matched by FBI profiler David Lapin's obsession with putting an end to their lethal activities, despite having no evidence against them. In this dark and violent stand-alone sequel to his novel NIKA, Anthony Land delves deeply into the psyches of the two female avengers, their acolytes and their nemesis, as the stain of death and tragedy spreads to encompass villains, victims and the innocent alike. The female avenger was a literary taboo for 2,000 years after the ancient Greeks revealed its horrifying potential in Medea, Clytemnestra and Procne. In THE BANSHEES, that ancient psychological horror is revived in all its tragic fury.